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Thread #115900   Message #2484523
Posted By: Janie
04-Nov-08 - 11:33 AM
Thread Name: BS: Lines at the Polls
Subject: RE: BS: Lines at the Polls
I work in the same building as what used to be my home precinct. No lines at all because there was a huge early voting turn-out. This precinct is made up of mostly professional folks and well-to-do retirees.

I voted early, but drive past what is now my new precinct location, located in a rural AME church, on my way work. At 7:40 this morning, there was literally a traffic jam there from cars parked on the berm (church lot full and out of parking), and folks arriving and departing the polling place. There was a lengthy serpentine line of people that cirled the church and then wrapped about 1/3 of the way around the edge of the parking lot. Lots of people with smiles, cheerfully standing in the rain, chatting with their neighbors, as they quayed up to vote.