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ELECTION DAY UPDATE
** Continued reports of light, light turn-out, with the general feeling being that demographically the voters are skewing older. In some polling places they're joking that there are more workers than voters.
** ACC correspondent Brian Werner ran into Joe Palm outside Church's. Palm had just finished purchasing lunch for his volunteers at Church's. (He graciously offered an extra box to the ACC staff.)
** Todd Britt, former aide to Francis Slay, was handing out lit for Kenny Jones at the Kingshighway Library poll. Britt says the race is too close to call. Next to Todd was volunteer Mary Long working the site for Jeff Smith.
** Across a number of polling places, the Smith volunteers are younger and mor energetic. We noticed several cases where El-Amin or Ward Org workers stayed sitting in chairs nevermind passing voters. Who knows whether last minute voter contact matters. But if it does, that should help Smith.
In other news, KWMU is reporting that the November ballot initatives now number only two.
More later...
More from the 28th Ward...
Rachel Storch on Ballot.
I was the 82nd person to vote this morning in the 6th precint. Certainly not the party it was for the general election.
When I arrived the Jeff Smith volunteer and the El-Amin volunteer were engaged in a very friendly conversation and both were all smiles...seriously!
Love, love, love the new voting machines!
RL'E
28th Ward, 6th Precint
Mann school at about 2pm -- El-Amin volunteers didn't even try to hand me a pamphlet; Smith & Jones did. Not sure if Boykins or Gambaro were there.
Few people inside, touch screen was smooth sailing.
Leaving, a guy brushed off a worker trying to hand him a pamphlet and said 'Gambaro couldn't buy my vote!'
Also, while leaving, two old ladies were getting into a cop car... cops are driving old ladies to the polls????
Posted by 15th warder on Tue., Aug 8, 2006 at 2:26 PMCould the older ladies getting into the cop cars have been election board workers? The police escort election board workers to various polling places throughout the day.
Posted by Tim on Tue., Aug 8, 2006 at 2:32 PMI was at Bishop DuBourg in the 16th at about 6:30 a.m. Not many voters, but still a line to use the high tech gizmos. (How will this work for a big time election day?) I went old school and filled in the circles completely and stayed within the lines, this after supressing a momentary panic that I had no Number 2 pencil. (easy Joe.... easy)
Posted by Joe Daus on Tue., Aug 8, 2006 at 4:43 PM
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