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  • From: grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: best place to vote early in Durham
  • Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:13:01 -0400

We don't know about total turnout yet, but in North Carolina alone something like 20% of eligible voters will have voted early by the time it's finished on Saturday afternoon. That's a remarkable number and suggests something more than a fad.

I think it's a far more civil way to handle an election, but the way it's structured now isn't really living up to its promise, at least judging from the near-universal stories of lines.

I'm way too busy at work right now to crunch these numbers, but if anybody's bored, can somebody express the early voting sites in terms of total booths/hour (i.e. X sites at Y booths/site times Z hours total open) and compare that with booths/hour on election day?

It'd be nice if they were equivalent.

Ross

p.s. hope somebody is tracking voters/hour trends at various sites for various days/times -- the grocery stores know all about adjusting staffing at checkout on 15-minute intervals, but I dunno how well the county boards of election are at it. Of course, the whole system is built almost entirely upon volunteers, so I would like to emphasize that I'm amazed & proud that it works as well as it does . . .

Michael Warren wrote:

Don't understand the hoopla about early voting either. I've voted for
25 years and have never waited in line any significant amount of
time. More often the poll workers were trying to stay awake and fight
boredom. There has long been a process in place for people who were
going to be out of town or for the elderly. It's nothing new. Me
thinks this is mostly a fad that will fade away the day after the
election. And while the numbers of voters is up a good deal this
year, it's still a pathetically small percentage of those eligible.
mw




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