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Re: how busy are polling places?




Good point, although my wait wasn't very long (maybe 20 minutes in line).


Also, I saw no volunteer observers (but there was at least one poll watcher I saw) at Early Voting when I was there.

Joe

PS - I also observed several of the details that Paul W. mentioned in his report just by looking in the window while I was in line. When I finally decided to take notes, I was at BN H, BNIP 1H and BNIP 2H. I saw a flash card sitting on top of a machine. There was also a "General LAT Report" printout sitting on one of the machines (I think it was the western-most of them), but it wasn't practical to really read the information (at least not without losing your place in line).


On Nov 2, 2004, at 1:30 PM, Ralph Shnelvar wrote:


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