RE: how busy are polling places?

["Some Guy" <someguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My polling place (Rocky Mtn Elementary) had at least four watchers, but they
were doing more than watching. There might have been more, but they were
busy moving around so it was hard to tell. I saw one sitting by herself with
a poll book in her lap, looking through it.

There were three MoveOn people outside; one Kerry lawyer; and one guy with
Kerry and Salazar stickers all over his body. Took some doing to get him to
move his ass outside of the 100 foot limit.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Pezzillo [mailto:jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 1:51 PM
To: Cvv-Discuss@Coloradovoter. Net
Cc: Ralph Shnelvar
Subject: 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
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>