Just got back from voting in Manhattan, NYC

[Yavin4]

Got there 15 minutes before polling place was open. There was already a line nearly wrapping around the block. The entire time it took me to vote was 30 minutes after the polls were open. No one has ever seen anything like that before. Truly awe inspiring.

I know that NY is not a swing state, but so what. The people matter, and i can look the world in the eye and say that the people did not vote for Trump for president. And that's important.

[secondwind]

1. My hometown... love love love NYC

[wnylib]

14. Not my hometown, but I love NYC, too.

[DangerousRhythm]

2. Native New Yorker, proud of my city.

I’m in Harris County now, but NYC will always be my home.

[PJMcK]

3. We voted on Sunday morning

Although the polling place opened at 7:00 am, we went there around 10:30 to drop off our absentee ballots. We were in and out in 30 seconds.

We've been sheltering in the Catskills in NE Pennsylvania and seriously considered re-registering there to vote since PA is an important swing state. Unfortunately, there are several legal and tax reasons this change would have been very difficult for us at this time.

In any event, this vote felt like the most important ballot I've submitted since my first vote for Jimmy Carter in 1976!

[AZ8theist]

6. Hey!! Me too!! My first vote was for Carter!!!

[PJMcK]

7. I have a disturbing thought for you, my friend!

If your first vote was in 1976, then you must have been born in 1958 or earlier. That means that when we were born, there were only 48 stars on the American flag.

Think about that!

Once, I told my son this fact. He said, "Dad, when you were born, I thought there were 13 stars on the flag!"

Kids.

[AZ8theist]

9. Yes, I was born in 58....

What's disturbing is that it was during the EISENHOWER administration......

What brings me UNMITIGATED JOY was that I was alive to watch men walk on the moon. ON LIVE TV.

I was so enthralled by the space program I watched every single moonwalk. Some, I had to set my alarm for 2 am since not every live moonwalk was in prime time. 2 am on school nights nonetheless!!!!

But you and I are getting to be fossils now. And I never dreamed, in my lifetime, America would be this close to dictatorship.
Hopefully, today, the beginning of the end of this nightmare.

[Boomerproud]

12. Yes we are fossils but damn we grew up in an incredible time.

The music alone was righteous.

[Golfnbrew]

17. yes indeed! and still is!

Bunch of us '58ers on here - my twin is here somewhere too!

I turned 18 in July, to vote for Carter in November. and the music of the 60s and 70s is still enjoyed by the youngsters today, which means it was truly ageless, excellent stuff.

[PJMcK]

19. My son is a huge Beatles fan

He's 25 and when he was growing up, he was often sneaking off with my recordings. He said that most of the contemporary music was crap and he and his friends liked music from the 60s and 70s... except disco, of course!

What really made me laugh was when he made the ringtone for his cellphone the guitar intro from Chicago's "Beginnings"!

[AZ8theist]

20. DISCO?? uuugggghhh!!!!!!

The "real" music of the 60's and 70's.....

Led Zeppelin
The Who
AC/DC
Allman Bros
Pink Floyd
Queen

And my all time favorite (saw them in concert 70 times) :
YES

[Golfnbrew]

32. Chicago !!!

Huge fan of the early work !!!

[niyad]

23. Welcome to our DU family.

[BComplex]

34. The music alone was righteous!

Oh yes!
Incredible time to be alive, indeed!

[wnylib]

16. I remember when Alaska and Hawaii

became states. My first vote was in 1972. Folks should have voted like me, then, instead of putting the Nixon crook in office. But Trump makes Nixon look like a saint in comparison.

[AZ8theist]

22. Nixon IS A SAINT compared to the TREASONOUS PIG DOTURD.

[MoonchildCA]

24. My first vote was for Jimmy Carter.

I was born in ‘62.

[Golfnbrew]

33. took me a sec...

doing the math in my head. you were 14...

then I realized... I voted for him twice - Reganomics Reagan won the second time...

[MoonchildCA]

35. Yup! It was an extremely disappointing first election.

[samnsara]

4. can you tell who the ppl are voting for? were they wearing masks and socially distancing?

..or were they whooping it up with cans of beer and maga hats?

[Yavin4]

5. Everyone was wearing masks, and everything was very orderly.

No MAGA hats. I live across the street from the polling place, and there's still a long line.

[ouija]

8. Line in Queens Forest Hills

[Squinch]

10. My niece is a poll worker in Manhattan this morning.

So proud of her!

[Soxfan58]

11. Great job NY

My favorite city that host my least favorite baseball team.

[wnylib]

13. Down ticket votes are important, too.

Hoping the big turnout across the country will carry down ticket Dems along with Joe.

[mysteryowl]

15. Many elections on the ballot matter!!

[nuxvomica]

18. I went around 6:15 am; back by 7:00 am

This is in upstate New York, a red area, congressional district 21. We vote at a fire station and there's never been a line outside before but this morning it extended around to the back with people about 4 feet apart, all wearing masks. I chatted with the gentleman behind me who turned 84 today. He was alone and had a walker and had just gotten over pneumonia. I told him he should go to the front of the line, it being his birthday and all. It was cold and snowy, and not long before workers came and got him to sit inside. Normally, elections around here resemble a Medicare seminar but I was amazed to see so many young voters. Everyone was cheery and friendly despite the weather. People were happy to vote today.

[FakeNoose]

25. Wow, glad to hear this!

I voted by mail this time, so I don't have an "in person" voting story to tell.
Love your story though.

[Roc2020]

21. New York City should be UN designated

World Heritage Site. Truly a special and awesome city.

[klook]

27. +1. My visits there have always been filled with delight and inspiration. (nt)

[ancianita]

29. It truly is. If you haven't yet, check out "The Island At the Center of the World."

For history it's a page turner. One great thing I learned -- though tolerance isn't written on any founding documents -- is that America got its value of tolerance from the Dutch of New Amsterdam, which they modeled after the most tolerant city in the world at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_at_the_Center_of_the_World

[liberal_mama]

26. NYC is my favorite place! My father's family is from Brooklyn

But by the time I was born, my father had moved to Buffalo, NY. I can't wait for the pandemic to be over so I can visit NYC again.

[geardaddy]

28. A friend of mine on the Upper West Side said it took him about an hour

He was psyched to see all the people waiting to vote.

[George II]

30. To be honest I never waited more than 10 minutes on the Upper West Side, but that was decades ago...

The longest I ever waited, for almost an hour, was after work in 1992 when I voted for Bill Clinton. I lived in a town of about 40,000 people in central Connecticut.

In this town I'm always at the polls at 5:55 AM, was usually second on line behind the same woman every year!

[zentrum]

31. Thing is that

…….downtown, our polling place has no one on line. There were long lines for the first three days of early voting and then almost nothing for the week after. There have to be more voters than this—right? Where are they all? Shouldn't the lines have gone on for days?

[moondust]

36. OMG. Trump may lose his home state

and even his home city? The people who know him best don't want him?

Republicans say that is a really, really, really big deal! Just ask Al Gore!

[Polybius]

37. The funny thing is Bush lost his home state too, but nobody mentioned it

He was born in Connecticut.