I’m pleasantly surprised that of the republican primary turnout
Republican Primary
It’s happening people… the republican primary line is 3x as long as the democratic primary. I know it’s not a general open election, but still. Just seeing a MUCH larger turnout in a DEMOCRATIC STRONGHOLD is pleasantly surprising. Even the people in the democratic line are surprised to see how many people showed up for republicans (to primary shitbags like Crenshaw)
Voted for my first time in Texas. The whole thing took 2 hours. When I left the line was much longer. They had five machines for Rs and four for Ds. The D machines sat empty pretty much the entire time I was in the building.
My polling place was strange this year. Rep and Dem seemed to share voting machines. You got a code after tellng the one person which party. You use the code on a machine. There was a total of 5. First time ever having to wait. In the past, we were in same room but had to go to different tables and people.
Ditto. Was surprised to see turnout for a primary. Could not tell R from D. You pointed to your party for the person at registration to give you a party coded ballot. All machines shared across parties.
Congrats on voting for the first time in Texas. Did you just move there or is it first time voting in general?
I'm in Alabama and in November when I voted, they allow handicap folks go to the front of the line. Thank goodness because the line was out the door, around the church and way across their land and already starting to curve from there. I told my daughter there is no way I can stand there that long, a number of people saw my daughter helping me walk to find the end of the line and told me to go back to the front of the building and tell them I was handicapped, and they will let me in front of line. I don't like cutting people in line, but I did, no one had an issue with it. I would have let someone worse than me in front of me also, without hesitation. They allowed my daughter to come with me, it was her first time voting. I'm proud of her! She is shy, so she would not have gone if I didn't ask her to come with me.
Moved here last May. Another funny one today. Waiting in line outside chatting with other folks in line when someone comes out of the building and asks for Dems to come forward as there's no wait for them. It was a long walk past everyone waiting but no problem since they were the only ones wearing masks.