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We went to vote at around 8:15 this morning. There was a line out of the McGuinness Senior Center, mostly due to the backup of not remembering what district we were in. The guy in front of us insisted that we had to wait in line even if we DID know our district.
Not true.
We are in District 75. It’s never that crowded, but today was not any normal day.
The poll workers seemed amazed that that many people were there that early. They said that lunchtime was when it really got bad.
I don’t even want to think about what that meant today.
My record was there just fine, but the boyfriend’s was not. He had to produce ID and then he disappeared. I love how we still have the old-fashioned booths that I remember from when my parents voted in the 70s, complete with pencil carefully clipped to the side in case you wanted to write someone in. I went into the voting booth, closed the curtain, twirled my knobs and pulled the lever.
When I came out it was even more crowded. The phone rang, and it was the boyfriend. I had no signal downstairs but had enough to hear him say he was outside. He had to vote on paper, even though he didn’t want to, he had to vote on paper because despite not being on the rolls the last time this happened and him sending them a letter AGAIN updating his address, he was still not there, even though his ID actually reflects his current domicile.
Him and Tim Robbins. He was in good company, and would have liked to have been afforded the luxury of taking Tim’s protest route and going down to the Board of Elections, but alas, that course of action was not for us peons.
(I’m glad Tim did, and at least he pointed out that he had the luxury of doing so.)
My flickr feed is here, and I cannot tell you how important it was for me to have my camera this morning.
d said,
November 7, 2008 @ 8:08 pm
I’m in district 75 also and I went around 10:30am. I think there were about 5 people ahead of me, I had gotten a bagel, voted and got home within 30 minutes.