Back from the polls.....
May. 5th, 2009 09:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poltr1My day started at about 4:50am. I showered, shaved, downed a cup of Café Bustelo, and headed to the local polling place where I was to work all day. (The polls were open from 6:30am to 7:30pm. I had to be there no later than 6am.) The building maintenance guy got there at 6 on the dot to unlock the building. We scrambled getting things set up in time for the polls to open on time. Thankfully the Diebold voting machines were set up and nearly ready to go. And we had a few people there ready to vote at 6:30.
We had a decent turnout at our precinct -- nearly 200 voters for a single issue: a 5.9 mill school levy for Centerville Schools. That's nearly a 25% turnout of the total number of eligible voters. I don't know the totals because I didn't closely examine the final tally. (And if I did, I couldn't report them here.) There were a few impatient people, but most everyone was patient and understanding. I even managed to take a few minutes off and cast my ballot.
In the past few weeks, I hadn't seen a lot of signs for or against the levy, except for a cluster of "Vote No on 11" signs along one of the roads.
I'll find out this evening (via the 11 o'clock news) if the levy passed or failed.
Needless to say, I plan to sleep in tomorrow.
We had a decent turnout at our precinct -- nearly 200 voters for a single issue: a 5.9 mill school levy for Centerville Schools. That's nearly a 25% turnout of the total number of eligible voters. I don't know the totals because I didn't closely examine the final tally. (And if I did, I couldn't report them here.) There were a few impatient people, but most everyone was patient and understanding. I even managed to take a few minutes off and cast my ballot.
In the past few weeks, I hadn't seen a lot of signs for or against the levy, except for a cluster of "Vote No on 11" signs along one of the roads.
I'll find out this evening (via the 11 o'clock news) if the levy passed or failed.
Needless to say, I plan to sleep in tomorrow.
