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- Latest post made by Sonja Dahl at Nov 06 15:28 UTC
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It was great to see so many of our neighbors out voting this morning! I had a
lot of fun visiting with people in line next to us. We brought the kids with
us. Participating in our government is very important to me and that is
something that I want to instill in our children too. Even if it takes 2 hours
to vote, even to place another liberal vote in an already liberal precinct, I
feel it is still our responsibility to get out there and vote because we are
citizens of a democracy.
I've uploaded a photo of the line at 7:30am at Sibley of my neighbors waiting
to vote.
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I just got home from voting at St Helena's. I waited only 20 or 30 minutes.
Easy breezy. When I left the line had about doubled.
Lisa Ledwidge
4300 block 29th Ave
Lisa Ledwidge wrote:
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> I just got home from voting at St Helena's. I waited only 20 or 30
> minutes. Easy breezy. When I left the line had about doubled.
My FW and I voted this morning about 10:30, after a ~75-minute wait. I
was voter number 733 according to the ballot reader. What was your number?
My sister voted this morning. She said the problem at St helena's was a lack of
pens. Everyone was waiting but there were open spots to use. She asked one of
the judges what was going on and she said there weren't enough pens to go
around. Moral, take a pen to vote and leave it for the next person to use.
Maggie
Tillie's Bean
I'm glad to hear that, Lisa. I was very concerned when, at 8:25 am, I was only the 266 person to vote. I had been in line since 6:55 am. I calculated that, at this rate, only 2305 people would be able to vote in the 13 hours the polls are open. In the 2004 Presidential election, 2937 people voted in precinct 12-8. For some reason, the election judges were only letting a couple people into the polling location at a time, leaving other election judges sitting there, not helping anyone, and all the tables in the center of the room empty of voters. I talked to a friend who was voter 255 in his Minneapolis precinct, but only had to wait 30 minutes. It sounds like maybe they got their act together and started moving people through more quickly. Sonja Dahl On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Lisa Ledwidge <lisa.l@mindspring.com> wrote: > I just got home from voting at St Helena's. I waited only 20 or 30 minutes. Easy breezy. When I left the line had about doubled. > Lisa Ledwidge > 4300 block 29th Ave > > > Lisa Ledwidge > > Info about Lisa Ledwidge: http://forums.e-democracy.org/p/lisaledwidge > > This topic's messages may be viewed at: http://forums.e-democracy.org/r/topic/3N2XYycw2XUtMXjgsEOwB9
Has anyone seen what the lines looked like at Nokomis community center in the
last hour or so?
We are heading there soon
I expect that it's less about efficiency and more about the number of people
available to vote during the middle of the day. Classic supply and demand.
I expect long lines after 5pm to 8pm. Perhaps someone is near St Helena's
or Sibley Park and could drop off some extra black pens? Are there other
polling places I'm missing?
I have a bias. My husband is campaign manager of the Strong Schools Strong
City Initiative. This Standish-Ericcson headquartered initiative remains
relevant, while perhaps the more national, state-wide issues are probably
already locked up. Every vote still counts! My kid and yours depend on it!
Karen Baumgaertner
Standish Ave
St Helena Voter
We had an extra box of pens in the SENA office, so Bob just took them over to
the polling site at St. Helena's. Hope they help!
He said there are probably about 150 people in line there right now. A quick
drive by the Sibley Park location was a different picture - he didn't see any
line there - at least outside the building.
I was voter 1458 at 5:40 pm at Nokomis. No line what so ever. In
addition to voting stands, they also have six or so big tables you can
sit and vote at. If you plan to vote for judges, I recommend sitting
down for pen leverage. :-)
Wendy McNiff wrote:
> It was great to see so many of our neighbors out voting this morning!
>
I had a lot of fun visiting with people in line next to us. We brought
the kids with us. Participating in our government is very important to
me and that is something that I want to instill in our children too.
Even if it takes 2 hours to vote, even to place another liberal vote in
an already liberal precinct, I feel it is still our responsibility to
get out there and vote because we are citizens of a democracy.
When I went to Sibley around 12:30, I only had to wait for two other
people to vote.
I checked at St. Helena's church, where I have to vote, and at 10:30am
the line was long-about a 1 1/2 hour wait. I came back at 2:30pm and
still had to wait in line an hour to vote. It's great to see so many
people out voting!
We were in and out of Sibley in less then 5 minutes. And even Tillie got to
vote in the kids vote.
Maggie Turner
Tillie's Bean
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I voted at the Nokomis Community Center- arrived to a huge line at 6:35 a.m.
Once the polling place opened, the line moved quickly, and I was voter 89 at
about 7:05 a.m.....it was terrific to visit in line with other "larks"...
and I was thrilled to be in a long line. The last lines I waited in were in
'72!
Karen Newell
I voted at St. Helena's a little after noon. Ballot #1365. It took about 45
minutes total (including unexpectedly vouching for another voter). (And this
year, we didn't have to wait by pro-life propaganda to vote!)
They had it pretty well organized by then. Someone was working the line
outside the building, checking that people were in the right precinct, and were
on the registered voter list. For new voters, she was giving them the form to
fill out as they waited in line, so they had it ready when they got inside.
People were loaning pens to new voters to fill this out.
Still, the delay seemed to be more due to the election judges tables than high
volume. They seemed rather slow looking up people in the voter register, and
then there were delays because they ran out of the 'privacy folders' (those
hardly seemed important when people were carrying a party sample ballot, or
even wearing a candidate t-shirt under their jacket).
Then they had to give each person a little speech about how to fill out the
ballot. You'd think they could skip this for people who have voted there the
last 25 times or so -- and they have the records right there to show that.
Maybe it was rude, but I said "I know all that" and walked away while she was
giving that speech, so the next person waiting could get their ballot.
Despite all we heard about it, there doesn't seem to have been any actual
increase in turnout over 2004. Possibly the alarming warnings from the TV
stations about long lines & huge waits scared people off.
There was a pretty good increase in votes cast in our precinct (12-8) over 2004 - about 15% more voters (I don't know if this is an increase in the percentage of registered voters). There were 2937 voters in 2004 and 3370 voters in 2008. Sonja Dahl On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Tim Bonham <t-bonham@scc.net> wrote: > I voted at St. Helena's a little after noon. Ballot #1365. It took about 45 minutes total (including unexpectedly vouching for another voter). (And this year, we didn't have to wait by pro-life propaganda to vote!) > > They had it pretty well organized by then. Someone was working the line outside the building, checking that people were in the right precinct, and were on the registered voter list. For new voters, she was giving them the form to fill out as they waited in line, so they had it ready when they got inside. People were loaning pens to new voters to fill this out. > > Still, the delay seemed to be more due to the election judges tables than high volume. They seemed rather slow looking up people in the voter register, and then there were delays because they ran out of the 'privacy folders' (those hardly seemed important when people were carrying a party sample ballot, or even wearing a candidate t-shirt under their jacket). > > Then they had to give each person a little speech about how to fill out the ballot. You'd think they could skip this for people who have voted there the last 25 times or so -- and they have the records right there to show that. Maybe it was rude, but I said "I know all that" and walked away while she was giving that speech, so the next person waiting could get their ballot. > > Despite all we heard about it, there doesn't seem to have been any actual increase in turnout over 2004. Possibly the alarming warnings from the TV stations about long lines & huge waits scared people off. > > > Tim Bonham > Standish Ericsson/Ward 12, Minneapolis > Info about Tim Bonham: http://forums.e-democracy.org/p/timbonham > > This topic's messages may be viewed at: http://forums.e-democracy.org/r/topic/7osYbViy2il2mq2pfPhaJJ