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Edited on Mon Oct-27-08 10:47 PM by Lancer
There is the "Model 100" -- paper ballot with circles you fill in with a pen, (used where I vote in Chapel Hill), and two types of touch screen machines (iVotronic and AutoMARK). The NC State Board of Elections sends a very useful Voter Guide out in the mail in early October. It explains how the different machines work and which counties use which. Some counties use more than one kind.
Early voting has been massive in NC. 1.2 million people voted in the first 10 days of early voting (which ended Sunday). This is huge. Early voting here continues until Saturday the 1st. Some polling places have extended their hours and some have had extra machines brought in. I have not heard of any irregularities yet.Doesn't mean there haven't been some.
I took my father to vote in Greensboro today. He is getting along in years and can't stand for long periods. The first two places we went there were lines around the block and down the street. The third place we went, a rec center out in the county, appeared to have no line. There wasn't one outside, but the one in the gym went around and around. I counted 175 people ahead of us. This was at 1:00 p.m. Several hundred had already voted since that polling place opened at 10 a.m. (I believe the county has 14 early voting centers set up.)
Because it was raining, they set up "curbside voting" inside in another part of the building. That's where I took Dad, and we would have been in and out in 5 minutes except that we talked forever to a really nice elderly couple who were voting in this room because she had just had both knees replaced.
You meet the nicest people when you vote. A huge turnout is always very encouraging, this year even more so. :)
Now I'm going to see Barack a second time on Wednesday in Raleigh!
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