I voted today. I had to go to two polling places because the folks at the first one at a neighborhood rec center couldn't quite get the equipment to work. Several of us were told "they'll have it running in a minute" but it sounds like few stuck around to find out. I didn't want to risk these folks losing my vote so I drove to the sub-courthouse a couple of miles away. I had to wait in line about 15 minutes.

There are people out there at the boundary to the polling places with their signs and cards and t-shirts. There was a man at the sub-courthouse who shouted to the line to vote for McCain. The line told him to get lost.

There was a county judge out there with a sign waving and speaking to people. She is a Republican who has read the writing on the wall. Two years ago in the congressional races so many people were angry at Bush and his ilk that they voted straight Democratic tickets. The results released that night showed that the majority of various district judges in the courthouse in Dallas were thrown out of office because most of them are Republicans. They got hit in the blow-back from the congressional race anger. Most of them didn't go into work on Wednesday and there was a lot of confusion at the courthouse that morning. This woman probably fears the same thing happening to her this year.

SRS