"Bob Ackley -> Jeff Binkley" <1:300/3> wrote in   
   news:21129$MATZDOBRE@JamNNTPd:   
      
    JB>> I got up this morning, jumped out of bed, wanting to be the   
    BA>   first in JB> line at the polls.  The polls open at 6:30.  I got to   
    BA>   the polling JB> place at 6:20 and there were already a dozen people   
    BA>   in front of me. JB> When I left they were streaming in.   Ohio is   
    BA>   ground zero to turn JB> back Obama's agenda.  I walked out with a   
    BA>   big grin on my face.   
      
    BA> I managed to control myself until about 0900 when I went up to vote.   
    BA> First time I can recall seeing so many cars parked in front of the   
    BA> polling place.  Note   
    BA> that my township and the one immediately north have combined their   
    BA> polling places into one location.  There were 3 or 4 voters there when   
    BA> I arrived and a few more arrived before I left, and I was only there   
    BA> about 15 minutes; the last time I voted there I had the place to   
    BA> myself.  Anyhow, after I voted I asked one   
    BA> of the ladies there what the turnout was like and she said it was a   
    BA> bit higher then they usually have.  And this, of course, is an   
    BA> off-year election...   
      
    BA> I did note that they did away with the electronic touch-screen voting   
    BA> machines this time.  Mark/sense paper ballots that you feed into a   
    BA> slot where the machine   
    BA> scans the ballot on the way in and keeps it in a locked box in the   
    BA> bottom.  Which   
    BA> IMO is a good thing - there's a paper audit trail "just in case."   
      
    BA> No idea how the voting is going, I guess I'll find out tomorrow   
    BA> morning (the polls   
    BA> here are open until 2100 and I'm not going to stay up to hear any   
    BA> results).   
      
   The Nazi lost.   
      
   --- Xnews/5.04.25   
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