i voted about a week an a half ago. im a university of cincinnati student, and there were vans to take take kids to the polling place lined up for about a month before election day. the lady who drove me was a volunteer from England, a town just outside of london. She was very nice and completely volunteered her resources. she rented the van and stayed here in the states with a host family. took about an hour, and the place was actually very full, but it was a great experience as it was my first time voting! thanked her many times.

 

 

I voted at Fort Wayne's elegant 1912 former Pennsylvania Railroad Station, now the home of an architectural firm and a venue for receptions and other events.

 

 

 

 

From my house to the polls, vote, and back home again was less than an hour. My heartfelt thanks to all the people who trooped down to the election board in the days before November 4 and stood in line for up to three hours to avoid getting stuck in long lines on election day.

 

My precinct had three machines, and things would have moved faster if some people hadn't been completely unprepared and tried to figure out their choices while seeing them for the first time after they got into the booth. Some of them took fooorrreeeever to cast their votes.

Robs polling place takes the cake!

Speaking of the free food, there was 200 people in line at Starbucks and the same number in line at Ben and Jerry's on Ann Arbor's state street.  Two places offering free products right next to each other on a congested intersection...huge mess, but lots of excitement!

 

I voted absentee.  I chose to continue "voting in" Saginaw since I still really care a lot about my hometown even though I don't live there anymore.  I wouldn't even know the precinct locations in Ann Arbor lol.

 

Props to my state for voting Obama!

 

 

With 92% of precincts reporting, Indiana has gone for Obama. The margin is teeny-tiny, but for Indiana to not go overwhelmingly red is pretty amazing.

 

I got stereotyped leaving the polls. Outside the station a black man about my age with a clipboard was conducting an exit poll. He asked me if I had voted for McCain/Palin or Obama/Biden. I replied that I had cast my vote for Barack Obama. He started to mark his board, hesitated, looked at me with an expression that could only be disbelief, and asked me again, "You did say Obama?" I replied that I hadn't even for a minute thought about voting the other way.

 

He got this big damn grin on his face, and we both cracked up.  :lol:

 

 

Too bad all the Ben & Jerry's around Cincinnati closed down. :(

Too bad all the Ben & Jerry's around Cincinnati closed down. :(

 

That's what you get for having Graeter's. Any would-be competitors take one taste of Graeter's and just close up shop 'cause they know their case is hopeless. :cry:

Agreed.  I was very impressed with Graeter's, and continue to be every time I visit Cincinnati. 

I voted early. This day has defiantly been exciting though.

Well I tried walking over first thing in the morning but there was a long line already forming so I said screw it and just went to work as I said a few pages ago. On the way home just got off the bus a couple stops early and walked over to the pavilion in the park where by that time voters seemed to be outnumbered by poll workers by about 5 to 1. No line at all, but they couldn't find my name on the list, so I had to vote provisional. Walked home and was only about 15 minutes later getting to my house than usual.

Too bad all the Ben & Jerry's around Cincinnati closed down. :(

 

All five existing locations are in Showcase Cinemas or Cinema de Lux theatres.  I didn't go because they were too far for me (no car).  But they hosted free cones from 5p to 8p.

With 98 percent of precincts reporting, Allen County, Indiana (Fort Wayne) turned out 63 percent of registered voters, shy of the 70 percent expected by election officials. Still a decent showing, and part of it may have been because of the weather, sunny with temps in the 70s and brilliant fall color. Most years going to the polls involves an umbrella, a warm sweater, and tromping through wet leaves.

 

[Edit Nov 7 2008]: Very much like 2004, city core precincts supported Obama. Nearer the central city and around my (mostly-white) neighborhood west of downtown the support was between fifty and sixty percent. The southeastern neighborhoods, strongly minority with a mix of black, asian, and latino, supported Obama with more than sixty percent of the vote.

 

As expected, suburban and rural voters went heavily for McCain.