Patriots, thought it might be useful to have a thread to collect interesting observations from voting locations. My state makes early voting in my location extremely difficult so I will unfortunately be voting today. I'll be heading over early afternoon once my wife and son are home so we can all cast our vote for President Donald J Trump. I will report back in this thread as I am in Minneapolis.
Mods, perhaps a stickied voting thread? Doesn't need to be mine by any means. But might be nice for people to report what they're seeing today, especially in battleground states.
Paper ballots, filled out with pens. No missing candidates, even a space for write in options with a list of known write ins. Honestly, everything appears to be on the up and up here in eastern Indiana.
Oh forgot to mention, requires an ID to get a ballot printed.
Yes same here in eastern Alabama.
Heavily Republican area of Florida.. No Trump/Vance signs at all.. maybe 50 Harris Ballz signs.. looks like someone was busy last night or this morning.
This was right outside the polling location..
What's the thought process here?
"I was sure I was going to vote for Trump for the last several months but I showed up at the polling station and there were a whole lot of Kamala signs so I think I better change my vote!"?
There's no such thing as an undecided voter this late in the game.
Maybe they just had a bunch of leftover signs that nobody wanted so they had to get rid of them.
I just voted in central New Jersey (deep blue). Very low turnout. All machine voting Can vote in English, Spanish, and two Hindu languages.
Overheard spoken by the poll workers at my local precinct this morning: "We have nearly 400 registered voters for our town, if you count the 100 early voters were nearing 100% turnout!"
Thought that was pretty cool. If my memory serves me, four years ago it was around 75% for my sleepy little town.
I saw and met a 80 year old man, driving a garbage truck with the same signage Trump had. First time in 70 years this man has voted. He was cruising all the county poll stations in our NC neck of the woods.
Typo. He is 70 and has never voted. He is starting strong this year. Sorry, that was super confusing!
Well he couldn't vote at age 10. Do you mean he has never voted?
CA. Liberal part of L.A. with plenty of Harris signs in the neighborhood.
Lines at the polls steady since this morning, steady lines for early voting yesterday and even a bit over the weekend. Except for people dropping off paper ballots (all voters get absentee ballots mailed to them by default now), it's all machine. I don't trust them at all.
The lines are impressive. I'm thinking it's the silent (mostly silent here, anyway) majority of Trump supporters, but I don't have any way of knowing. Definitely more voters than other cycles.
Small district in central PA, as it is small, everthing is always as it should be.
I voted early but my polling station is at my son's elementary school so I got to check it out this morning.
Busy but no line. People being respectful. More white Karens than I expected considering the racial make-up of the neighborhood.
In 2020 they had a very different set up than I had ever seen before with an army of well-fed black women. Today they just didn't show up and it's like any other election day.
I got a good feeling about this.
I can’t wait to hear how Mpls is! Let us know!!
I'll be very, very curious. I'm in a sleepy area of NE Minneapolis and my voting location is usually fairly quiet most elections. This is an extremely blue area in an extremely blue city.
When I voted in the primaries back in March, it was DEAD. Zero enthusiasm from my area.
I will be voting in the afternoon but I will be making sure to walk my dogs by the voting location during the post workday rush (5:30-6pm) to gauge turnout. I'll update this thread twice later today, once after voting and once after I walk by the voting location for the post work rush.
USUALLY, high turnout is a bad sign for Republicans in my area. So I will be watching crowd size today carefully.
I've lived in this neighborhood for 20 years. There are more Harris/Walz signs than any other Presidential election year since I've been here. Even more than Obama. Now, of course this is unique in that Walz is the governor of Minnesota.
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I voted early but I got my dad to vote today! First time in 30 years he's voted. Small upstate NY precinct. He said it went well, no problem because it's been so long since he was there last. Paper ballot that gets scanned by a machine here. He said his ballot had 1963 his birth year on it in the top. I didn't even know our ballot had that on it. They used black pens and he said the machine said he was #83 to vote already at 7am
I started this thread so wanted to share some updates.
Wife voted in NE Minneapolis at 2:30 PM. No line.
Son and I walked over at 4pm. One person ahead of us. Put my ballot through that damn machine. Said that only 1070 votes had been tabulated for the precinct. It showed an "expected vote total" on the screen of 15000.
All of the workers looked like they were sitting at table 9 from the Wedding Singer. I asked one about the vote count. She shrugged and said that lots more people would be here after work. She added that she worked the polls 4 years ago and that our precinct had a 90% vote rate.
I'm in deep blue Minneapolis so hopefully that doesn't hold true.
I made sure to walk by the voting place when I walked my pups tonight at 5:30 and it was dead. 4 cars total. Let's hope it stays quiet.
Fuck Minneapolis.