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Ohio allows early voting, so to avoid the rush on Election Day, I went down to the BoE this morning and voted.
There was still a rush. The room was full of voting booths, and there were six lines for registration, yet I had to stand in line to fill out the paperwork and get my ballot. The BoE employee there -- a very helpful and enthusiastic young woman -- told me that it had been like this since early voting opened, and that they'd had 800 or so people vote yesterday, and it looked like today would be the same.
It would seem that early voting is rather popular.
My random exit poll (with a sampling error of A Lot) of the six people in the elevator with me as I left would indicate that the vast majority of the early voters are for Obama. All six of the other people in the elevator said that they'd voted for Obama (as I did also). One of them, as we were walking down the sidewalk to our cars, said emphatically that "I really, really want the country I love back. Bush and his people stole it from us over the last eight years..."
I walked out into cool sunshine. It felt like a good day.
There was still a rush. The room was full of voting booths, and there were six lines for registration, yet I had to stand in line to fill out the paperwork and get my ballot. The BoE employee there -- a very helpful and enthusiastic young woman -- told me that it had been like this since early voting opened, and that they'd had 800 or so people vote yesterday, and it looked like today would be the same.
It would seem that early voting is rather popular.
My random exit poll (with a sampling error of A Lot) of the six people in the elevator with me as I left would indicate that the vast majority of the early voters are for Obama. All six of the other people in the elevator said that they'd voted for Obama (as I did also). One of them, as we were walking down the sidewalk to our cars, said emphatically that "I really, really want the country I love back. Bush and his people stole it from us over the last eight years..."
I walked out into cool sunshine. It felt like a good day.
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It's a county with 300,000 registered voters, more or less. They've been doing early voting since September 13?. As of today (Friday), 48,000 of them have already voted.
It'll be a bit better next week, since they'll go from one early voting place to six (supposedly). And when voting gets going, there are regular 175 polling places overall.