Were there individual polling places within your precinct? If not, how did they handle the balloting for the local elections unique to your precinct? Did they check your address and hand you a ballot with your particulars on it? Thanks
It was an electronic voting booth. They scanned my drivers license, verified my address, then a machine printed out a little piece of paper with an access code on it. I put the access code in the voting machine and only the races applicable to me showed up on the electronic ballot.
Took me a little over an hour yesterday. Don't mind at all - beats risking a half day long line Tuesday.
It took me 40 minutes on Thursday. There's an "I voted" thread in D&D. http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=155818
i was going to vote yesterday, but saw the line, and i said F it. The lawns in front of the place where i was going to vote all said McCain/Palin on it. I'll vote Tuesday at 730 AM.
I'm in Minnesota. We don't have early voting. As a matter of fact, it is kind of difficult to even vote absentee. I was just wondering how the individual races were handled since folks were voting out of their precincts.
I voted early, and in my county, you can vote anywhere in the county. They had a list of all registered voters in the county, and they checked my driver's license against it to get my registration number (left my registration card at home). Then they entered my registration number into a machine that gave them my precinct and ballot style, and electronically registered me as having voted. Today, I sat on the early voting ballot board, where we checked the absentee ballots. To get an absentee ballot in Texas, you have to apply for one, and mark your reason (over 65, disabled, out of the county, or in jail). They keep your request, send you a ballot, and when you return your ballot, they check the signature on the envelope that you send your ballot in on against the signature on your application. If they match, your ballot goes into the ballot box to be counted. If not, it's rejected, and you get it all sent back to you with a letter explaining. There's one other reason an absentee ballot can be rejected, but it's rare. If your address is flagged as suspicious (I don't know how that happens), you have to sign a statement of residence form that says that it's really your address. If you don't return that form, your ballot is rejected.
Oh, one other detail: There are 175-ish precincts in my county, about 100 election locations on election day, and 11 early voting locations. If you vote early, you can vote anywhere in the county. If you vote on election day, you have to vote in the election location for your precinct. I'm serving as an election judge at a location where two precincts vote, but most precincts have their own location.
