I took my absentee ballot over to my polling place in Berkeley this morning around 11 AM to drop it off. The polling place has the dreadful Diebold touch screen machines that are known to be extremely vulnerable to fraud. There was about a 10 minutes wait, then people were being asked "Paper or Machine". About half the people chose paper, and there was a long table at one end of the polling place where people were sitting and filling out the paper ballots (no real secrecy possible, but on the other hand no one had to use the table).
I went by the Cheeseboard on my way home. Downtown and North Berkeley were empty in a way they never are at 11 AM on a weekday -- I'm guessing and hoping that lots of people are either in a battleground state or were at home calling voters to encourage them to vote.
Posted by Geodog at November 2, 2004 12:08 PM | TrackBackMy apologies, but my web hoster has turned off commenting, due to a flood of obscene spam bringing the server to its knees. I hope to have this weblog transitioned over to Wordpress in the near future, so that I can have commenting up and working again. Until then, please feel free to send me your comments via my email contact form.. Please ignore everything below this comment.