Americans: How are you spending election day?

Working today—and I need to run an errand right after work. I voted early, so I feel light and breezy today ;-)

I’ll pick up the election coverage on the tube when I get home tonight (and drink some champagne for no apparent reason)

I am working today and I have to write a paper for one of my classes so that is where my focus will be until I get home this afternoon. Once I get home I have to help with homework, get dinner on the table, fold a ton of laundry, and get a kid to music lessons. I probably won’t watch any election coverage until at least 9:00 this evening. When I do turn on the tv it will be to Comedy Central because no one will cover the election as well as Jon and Stephen.

I am currently at work but I will be voting after my shift ends.

Voted two weeks ago.

Going to work today, then avoiding the radio and TV. Can’t stand the inane yammering from people who are on air and have to say SOMETHING regardless of what’s going on in the real world.

Will pick up a newspaper Wednesday morning to read the election results.

Writing a really crappy paper on The Sand County Almanac, going to school and then watching tv. Depending on who wins that will determine how much I drink tonight.

Working, voting and then checking on my house to see if the power is back on before the Nor’easter hits.

Already voted by mail, spending the day at a workshop (not political).

I am on my way to sit at the polls for the Dems. and cross off on the master list every voter as s/he registers. My shift is from 12:00 – 3:00.

Periodically we do a count.

At 6 and 8:30, Dem. runners will collect the names of the voters who have not yet voted, call them with a gentle reminder and offer a ride to the polls.

Rarely has anyone had to produce an ID; everyone knows everyone ( and where we all stand politically…no secrets here). But it will be an orderly and efficient process. Rarely are there waits more than 10 minutes and those will be later in the day.

The women’s auxiliary of the church on the village green will be serving a serious lunch of pork, gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans, cole slaw and salad in the church basement…talking about a blast from the past. No one will talk politics.

I’m sitting in the doctors office. Voted absentee last week.

Due to voter ID, it took me an hour to vote. It usually takes about five or ten minutes. The Republican plan to suppress the vote is working. I saw several people look at the line and leave. If they come back later, it’s only going to be worse.

Tonight, I will be making dinner for the kids, as my wife will be observing the polls until 8 pm. Then I will probably be observing the returns online and on TV. Maybe we’ll have a thread here to make comments on. People can report rumors and results as they hear of them.

Then, maybe around 11 or 12, if all goes well, we can have a victory party.

@wundayatta : Can you explain more about how the requirement for voter ID delayed you?

@bookish1 Not really. It just seemed to be taking the election workers a long time to ask for ID. The lines were long. Yet no one was in the election booths. So the delay had to be the voter ID, because that’s the only thing that is different. I can’t see how asking for ID would delay things, but I don’t have a more likely cause right now.

When I got in the room, there seemed to be a lot of confusion from one worker, who was trying to deal with a group of Vietnamese folks. They may have had to use a provisional ballot. I’m not sure. In any case, it was a lot of confusion and it seemed like it was taking a lot of time.

It was funny, though. They have to ask for ID, although we don’t have to present it. The poll worker looked at me, and said, “Wundayatta?”

Yes, they know me as Wundayatta there, too, LOL. Ok. Not really. But he said my real name. Then he asked for ID. I refused. He handed me a piece of paper. I said, for the second time, “I hope we won’t have to present ID next time.” And I went into the election booth.

The world is nuts, I think. It’s not me. It’s the world.

Cleaning. I had friends visit this past weekend and I need to wash all the linens and clean all the surfaces.

Check on my aunt and sister via phone and text. See if everyone has all their utlities on now in their apartments.

Oh, and voting too. This morning I double checked the ballot online, made sure I knew how I wanted to vote. Reread a little about some of the candidates.

I’ll like be at class and stuff.
I’ll probably be like sleeping as soon as I get home since I was like up all night.

@wundayatta They have to ask for ID, although we don’t have to present it.

Are you in Pennsylvania?

@gailcalled That sounds like a little slice of heaven.

Oh, I forgot to say how I was spending it. Well, we turned down a party at the Newseum in favor of spending the day at home where hubby will be working from 1pm to 10:30pm on election returns news. (His choice not to go to the party—I was game.) He is too anxious about the results. We went and voted at 10 A.M., then had a nice lunch. Looking forward to having dinner together.

@jaytkay Yes. Why—is there any other state this warped?

Holding my breath, then going out later to drink and watch the results. I’m off work. But currently I’m eating scrambled eggs and going hiking.

@wundayatta I was just curious if some other state had the half-baked ID thing going on.

Here in Illinois ID is required for early voting but not on election day.

I have a dim memory of hearing a reasonable explanation for that, but can’t recall the the facts. Something to do with the fact that on election day you have to go to your precinct, but you have a choice of locations for early voting.

Walked across the street & voted with my 7yr old son. I let him hold onto the pen with me again as we cast our vote for Prez.

Next we went to the library to check out the latest Neil Gaiman book, which we intend to read aloud for about an hour today.

For the rest of the night, CNN & ABC news will be on, husband will check his iphone incessantly and will await the results.

I just got home from poll watching. As of 3:00 PM, 531 people had voted out of the registered 1219. That doesn’t count the 84 absentee ballots.

There was a pleasant atmosphere and lots of safe joking and repartee. If I have the energy, I return for the festive counting of the machine votes after 9:30. Nothing will be official here until the board of elections personnel at the county seat tallies the absentee stuff.

We have, in the past, had local elections decided by 2 or 3 votes. The son of a friend is running for town justice (mostly traffic court for speeding as a way of getting money into the coffers). You’d think it was a job for The Lord High Executioner.

Slight change of plans. I had a few moments so I logged on to my Pres. candidate’s web site to make some calls to voters in swing states.

Made three calls to Virginia. All three people already voted. One woman was extremely excited to talk, she spent all morning working at the polls and was headed back for the evening shift.

But I’m still planning to stick my head in the sand and ignore the news until morning.

^^^: Me, too. I plan to watch reruns of the early Julia Chlds, live on PBS, in black and white.

On a day with no homework and not supposed to be on the computer at all (hueuheuheuhuehue) , I really don’t have a choice but to let my mind go to paste watching TV right now. :(

Whoa, now here is one bad-ass dedicated voter:

Southfield Twp. voter appears to die, then asks ‘Did I vote?’

Almost as good is Big Bird, on line at a poll in sw Austin, Texas.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/06/john-kelso-dresses-as-big_n_2083887.html

Disclaimer; I did not verify this. He was quoted as saying he hired his own bodyguard, however.

Got some friends over (both parties represented), cooked out on the grill, got a few decent bottles of wine, got the TV on and watching the returns. Everybody is pretty animated and excited. I am answering this on my way to the bathroom, figuring there would be election action on Fluther. Tomorrow, everybody will either be pleased, or disappointed and most will have a headache. And the sun will come up.

Sleeping, voting, working, keeping fingers crossed. Getting ready to start watching the returns.

I voted by mail a couple weeks ago and I knew who the winner would be even then. Since then I never really watched the news when it got into the political muck. It was a time filler ,or waster depending on the way you would look at it.

I have been obliviously working and making money even today.

same as it ever was

Mercifully, there ‘re only 8 minutes left before election day is over.

It looks like we have a winner, in spite of Karl Rove’s whining on Fox.

Yeah! Oh happy day!

I’m very relieved that we still have rights! And in some states cases, more rights than we had yesterday! Holy shit!