Originally Posted by
Olympic Fan
Today was the first day of early voing in North Carolina and the turnout was staggering -- I had to wait 20 minutes in line to cast my vote in Durham.
I also had to wait about 20 minutes here on the coast. I knew the lines were going to be long due to some news reports I had read, my guess is they will lighten up as the days go past. What drove me nuts was the tea party members that accosted me from my car to the entrance of the building. I would have been just as pissed off if they were democrats. By the time I walked the 50' across the parking lot, I had been offered several sheets of paper with names that I should vote for, the whole time saying "no". And yet they still came. When I got inside and was at my actual voting booth, there lay 2 of those same sheets. "These are the candidates that we of the Tea Party support and feel you should vote for". It would be nice to be at the one last station in the voting process that I can possibly be at and STILL not have outside materials trying to influence me. I rarely vote for the judges since I don't know anything about them, but at that point I was so ticked off I intentionally voted for the opponent on every one of those names listed on that sheet.
Cell phones aren't allowed in the voting booth; promotional materials should not be either. And if they are, then there should be an election staffer making sure that each booth is cleaned before it used again.
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."