ObElection
Nov. 2nd, 2004 01:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyThose of y'all who are Americans over the age of eighteen have voted, are voting, or will vote, right?
Good.
I voted this morning. A brisk walk, yellow-gold leaves everywhere. Elderly ladies with canes, young mothers with strollers, old men gossiping cheerfully while they waited. I heard one of the election workers saying the line was the shortest it had been all day, and it was still out the door of the room they were using.
Paper ballots. When you're done, you feed your ballot into a machine, like a supplicant making an offering to an electronic oracle. I can remember going with my mother to vote when I was little; in Tennessee, they had the machines with the levers, and the polling place was the gym of my elementary school, so every time someone voted, the gym grabbed the sound and echoed it.
I miss that noise.
But I have done my civic duty. Now it's sit and wait and hope. Hope that our governmental processes work, and that the decision we make today is a wise one.
Good.
I voted this morning. A brisk walk, yellow-gold leaves everywhere. Elderly ladies with canes, young mothers with strollers, old men gossiping cheerfully while they waited. I heard one of the election workers saying the line was the shortest it had been all day, and it was still out the door of the room they were using.
Paper ballots. When you're done, you feed your ballot into a machine, like a supplicant making an offering to an electronic oracle. I can remember going with my mother to vote when I was little; in Tennessee, they had the machines with the levers, and the polling place was the gym of my elementary school, so every time someone voted, the gym grabbed the sound and echoed it.
I miss that noise.
But I have done my civic duty. Now it's sit and wait and hope. Hope that our governmental processes work, and that the decision we make today is a wise one.
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Date: 2004-11-02 11:44 am (UTC)Some days I've gone at the end of the day and not gotten a number anywhere NEAR 207. Big turnout, yep yep.