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["U. Jason Gloege Jr." <ujgloege AT gmail.com>]

Right... the building was otherwise occupied.  And honestly, it wasn't
bad.  The line was moving, the people were pleasant, and the weather
was fine.  i was pleased to see so many people out exercising their
civic muscles.  And quite a few people in Durham voted early, but
still, you've got to expect that a good few would need to vote the day
of the election as well.

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 11:40:36 -0500, Tanner Lovelace
<clubjuggler AT gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 11:35:33 -0500, U. Jason Gloege Jr.
> <ujgloege AT gmail.com> wrote:
> > I voted at Triangle Presbyterian Church in Durham.
> 
> Ah, so that's why my son didn't have preschool today. :-)
> 
> 
> 
> > Got to the polling
> > place at 6:45 a.m. to find a decently long line, in which I waited for
> > probably 30-35 minutes before getting into the building.  Inside, they
> > were taking folks in bunches of probably 40 people at a time, and were
> > chewing through the certification lines pretty quickly.  I got lucky
> > in that there were only 5 people in the F-L [or whatever it was... it
> > contained G] line, and then the serpentine line to actually get my
> > ballot took another 20 minutes.  All told, I think I was there for
> > about 75 minutes, and that was pretty good.  Apparently folks has
> > begun lining up at about 5:30-5:45 for the opening at 6:30.  By the
> > time I walked out the door just before 8, there had already been ~200
> > ballots cast, according to the scanner/ballot acceptor doohickey.
> 
> Wow.  Stories like this make me glad that I voted early, even though I had
> to wait 3.5 hours to do it on Saturday.  We really should make the national
> election a holiday.  My work offered everyone only one hour off to go vote
> so if I had to take 1.5 or 2 hours (or whatever) I'd be on my own.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tanner
>