I voted!

[e_juliana]

I voted!
Originally uploaded by e_juliana

At 9:15 this morning, to be exact, after waiting 40+ minutes.

My usual polling place did not have the usual amount of booths. One the one hand, I get that SF increased the number of polling places, so the booths had to be spread out. On the other, we were facing a ballot that included *12* state-wide measures and *24* city/county-wide measures. I think more booths would have been a Good Thing.

I was voter #260 - at 9:15 a.m. Dude. 260 people in my teeny little district voted within 2 hours. Kind of amazing, no?

I'm running 5 tabs of election coverage in a separate browser than my usual one. The Laughing Squid has a blogroll of coverage that I'm going to run back to when I get home post-root canal (whee).

The non-CA, non-Presidential races I'm watching are Senate: Franken vs. Coleman in MN and Begich vs. Stevens in AK. FiveThirtyEight.com is calling Begich a lock to win and tilting towards Franken. I hope they're right.

And yes, I'm wearing a hoodie today. Partly because I am getting sick fast, and partly in tribute to Eminem's 2004 "Mosh". My ex-husband and I went to Target, bought our black hoodies, and went and voted. That hoodie is faded and holey now, but I still have it. I still hoped.

Also, I would just like to share this photo of an Alaskan voting. It's in Chatanika Lodge, which used to be a mining camp. We used to visit there a lot, when I was a kid.

Comments

[serrana.livejournal.com]

Yay voting!

Of course we have violin right when the first returns should be coming in. AUGH!

Mind you, I've spent most of the afternoon playing, because it's still too early to drink.

[greyplanet.livejournal.com]

i didn't get a sticker. i call bullshit.