Re: how busy are polling places?

[Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Joe:

Yeah, vote early and beat the rush.

Ralph Shnelvar


On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:47:25 -0700, you wrote:

>
>I just did a "walk-by" of the two precincts near me, Bethel United 
>Church at 19th and Glenwood and Columbine Elementary.
>
>Neither appeared to have any line. Both of them had MoveOn volunteers 
>and Bethel also had a DNC volunteer.
>
>I heard someone (might have been a passerby, not necessarily one of the 
>volunteers) at one of them saying that the early vote turnout for that 
>precinct had been 40%.
>
>Joe
>
>PS - I early voted Friday morning at the Clerk's office on 33rd (saw 
>Linda and got to say hello!), I was there a couple minutes after 7am, 
>and the line was basically all the way around the north side of the 
>building at that time. The day before, I'd been downtown and observed a 
>line that stretched from the Courthouse East door to the mall in the 
>early afternoon and was still close to 80% of that line at a few 
>minutes before 6pm when I went by again.
>
>
>On Nov 2, 2004, at 11:22 AM, Paul Walmsley wrote:
>
>>
>> I early-voted last week.  But I was curious to see how busy my
>> neighborhood polling place was - Grace Lutheran Church here in 
>> Boulder.  I
>> just checked it about five minutes ago and there's hardly any line.  
>> Looks
>> like people are in and voting in a few minutes.  Anyone care to report 
>> on
>> how other polling places are holding up?
>>
>>
>> - Paul
>>
>>
>