Barrack the Vote!

[offbalance]

I vote in every election. Always have, always will. So I'm accustomed to what the polling place is like on the day. A few years back, I was amazed at having to wait 10 minutes on a 6-person line.

Today, I got there at 7, and waited for a solid hour. The polling place in the slope that I went to was as crowded as a 4 train at rush hour. People brought their kids. (Which I'm usually for. It's great to show junior the electoral process. HOWEVER, I'd prefer it if they A) waited for the pre-work rush to be over and B) left the aircraft-carrier sized strollers at home or at the very least, outside the scrum. But when you live in Park Slope, I suppose this is all par for the course.)

I vaguely remember being taken by my mom or dad into the booth during the 1984 election. I vaguely remember it being crowded then. But even that is no comparison to the crowd I saw this morning. This is akin to trying to get on the subway after a Yankee game.

And the best part? No one was deterred by the line. Everybody stood, everybody waited, and everybody voted. When I finally got to the front of the line? I was #103. And this was before 9 am!

No stickers, though. They never seem to have stickers. Hopefully Ben & Jerry will hook me up anyway.

Comments

[queenmother49.livejournal.com]

I don't think anyone has stickers this year. I certainly didn't get one.

And this is Cara's first election, she's going with Daddy this morning.

[whtegrlwthehair.livejournal.com]

crazytown. my district had ONE person in line ahead of me. we couldn't believe our luck. every other line in the place had at least 30 people on it. i talked to stacey and avi at 9:15 and they were on a line out of the building and down the block. it's so hit or miss!

[calieber.livejournal.com]

The only time I remember a line was in 1984, and that's because I was six and impatient. Each of my parents took me into the booth and their candidate didn't even win New York.

Yankee-game-level crowds is alarming: this is porcelain72's first Presidential election in NY, and I've been saying "oh, well, it'll be fine if we go after you get home" based on every other election. And then there's you saying "yeah, it's way more crowded than I've ever seen it before."