Go Vote, People!
Polls are now open across the District of Columbia for today's local primary. If you're a registered Democrat, Republican, or Statehood Green, you're free to vote until 8 p.m. If not, you'll have to wait for Nov. 4.
A recap of LL's endorsements:
- At-Large Democrat: Kwame R. Brown
- At-Large Republican: Carol Schwartz
- Ward 2 Democrat: Jack Evans
- Ward 4 Democrat: Muriel Bowser
- Ward 7 Democrat: Yvette Alexander
- Ward 8 Democrat: Charles E. Wilson
- Democratic Shadow Senator: Paul Strauss (or write in Eugene Dewitt Kinlow)
- Democratic Shadow Representative: Mike Panetta
- Democratic National Committeeman: Vincent B. Orange Sr.
- Democratic National Committeewoman: Deborah M. Royster
- Democratic State Committee Slate: Obama4UnityBeatsMcCain
At about 7:30 this morning, electioneering was light outside LL's polling place, at Garnet-Patterson Middle School at 10th and V Streets NW. A lone young gentleman passed out fliers for the Obama4UnityBeatsMcCain slate, though when LL asked who he was out for, he said "D.C. for Obama," the local grassroots group devoted to electing the Democratic presidential nominee. That's a recipe for confusion, since there's a slate competing with Obama4Unity called "Obama for D.C."
Unsurprisingly, LL walked in and voted within seconds, submitting the third paper ballot of the day.
Put your polling place experiences in the comments!
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9:28 am
I flew in and out at about 8:25. Funny thing: They gave me the option of a paper ballot and touch-screen. I chose to try out the emerging technology, which cost me several minutes. I had to wait for a woman who was using the touch-screen monitor, and she was taking her sweet time. Had I just chosen a paper ballot, I'd have been out of there much more quickly. I imagine that in the future, they'll have more than one touch-screen monitor in the polling place.
10:05 am
I thought most precincts had just one electronic voting machine. It's mainly for people who can't use the paper ballots for some reason, so there's little reason to spend the money to have more. Let's stick with reliable, auditable optical-scan ballots rather than jumping further onto the electronic-voting bandwagon just as other jurisdictions are seeing the problems and starting to jump off.
10:57 am
I was the 29th person to cast a ballot at precinct #137 and the first Statehood Green Party member to vote there today. Was in & out in 5 minutes and had no problems. Unlike the presidential primary election, I was not given a portion of my ballot to take home with me, so my only souvenir this time around is the generic "I voted" sticker.
10:57 am
In and out around 11:OO Ballot #63 at Bancroft Elementary.
Skipped the emerging technology.
10:59 am
I'm with KCinDC. To comport with the current style among certain local Democratic Party slates, OpticalScan4Life!
11:01 am
The polling lines for us independents were really short: I hardly had to wait at all to be effectively disenfranchised! No Representation without Affiliation!
12:28 pm
My polling place experience has taught me not to go near them. I subscribe to H.L. Mencken's aphorism that Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Let's face it: Politics is a tour through a sewer in a glass-bottomed turd. Feel free to hop aboard, but don't wonder later why something smells.