primary day!

by sam on 02/5/2008

I voted bright and early this morning.  There wasn’t really a wait, but people were pretty steadily streaming in and out of my polling place (one of the workers told me that they haven’t had downtime all morning).  So that was cool.  Looking at the little pile of green (democratic) and pink (republican) cards that indicate who voted next to the machine, there appeared to be about 50 green cards to each pink card.  Of course, I live on the upper west side, which is the liberalist liberality around. 

And ultimately, I did vote for Obama (Edwards was still on the ballot, and I thought about pulling that lever for a few seconds, but then I snapped back to reality).

By the way, even though apparently millions of dollars have been poured into improving voting technologies, we’re still voting on the antiquated lever machines.  While I personally love them in a nostalgic sort of way (I learned how to vote on them, when my junior high school would "borrow" the county machines for school elections), I can’t help wondering where all of the money has gone.

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