Voted after waiting 7 hours in line today in northeast GA.

[RiffRandell]

They opened up 4 more locations in my county today (Gwinnett) so I arrived at the one in my town shortly after 11am.
Left the building at 6:15pm. Huge line, "machine problems" (a worker told us the system kept going up and down) AND I had my daughter with me----who did unbelievably awesome.

Obama/Biden 2008

[panAmerican]

1. Great job persevering! Thank you!

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Smells like attempted voter suppression...

Glad you did not give up.

[ronnykmarshall]

3. Bless your heart.

I'll be in line next week. I don't care how long it takes.

I'm voting for change and voting to save my marriage!

[Minimus]

4. Wow. You are awesome!

And give your daughter a hug from me for hanging in there with you.

[ecstatic]

5. Thank you so much. I am very disgusted though

Why the hell isn't Georgia more prepared?!? 7 hours?!? WTF? I wonder how many new voters are not going to bother.

[polichick]

6. Wow - thank you, thank you, thank you...

...and your daughter too! :patriot: :patriot:

[Joe the Liberal]

7. Good to hear.

Is that all they had was machines? Those "machine problems" are suspicious.

[timber84]

8. Holy Crap

:yourock:

[Avalon6]

9. You need to vote absentee next time

You don't need a reason in Georgia to request an absentee ballot.

[styersc]

21. OMG! For a second I thought you wrote "Vote Abstinence"!!!!

I may be forced into abstinence but I don't think I'd ever vote for it!!!!

Congrats to the poster for patience and the vote.

[DeepBlueC]

10. Yikes

You, my dear, are a patriot. :hi:

[Eric J in MN]

11. Thank you. It's too bad you have a Republican Secretary of State.

(Not that voting is universally fast in states with Democratic SOS and universally slow in states with Republican SOS, but I doubt that your Republican SOS will care about the long line.)

[mucifer]

12. what was the feeling in line what were people talking about?

were they excited for Obama?

[RiffRandell]

17. Very.

Even though the wait was horrible, people were laughing.

[CitizenPatriot]

13. oddlhy, it was the SOS aid who turned in the vote switching device

added to the diebold machines AFTER they were approved in 2006 (here in GA).

At any rate, KUDOS to anyone who is standing in line this long -- pack a lunch, bring an I-pod and remember you are serving your country:-)

I'll be driving people to the polls and videoing the vote on Nov 4.

vote down the whole ticket -- for ALL the dems and if you have trouble voting, call the Obama HQ nearest you ASAP.

[bmartello]

14. thank you thank you thank you! n/t

[Aloha Spirit]

15. You rock!! Our county gets a little more awesome with every vote for Obama.

[quantass]

16. YOU ARE A TRUE DEMOCRAT -- Thank you!!!

[Doctor_J]

18. The fascists are going to make it very tough to vote

hopefully there will be many of them in prison on RICO violations within a year or so

[BlooInBloo]

19. Thank you!

[Fluffdaddy]

20. I tip my hat to you lady

[kenny blankenship]

22. "Machine Problem"

What exactly do these fucking machines do right? They seem to be designed to not work properly and can't be considered a secure method of balloting when/if they do work.

This whole fucking system needs to be ripped out, rethought, planned and implemented in broad daylight using Open Source software and the entire 18th century patchwork of fragmented elections systems under the control of political hacks from state to state and county to county should be burned away forever like a pile of stinking garbage.

[agentS]

27. Time to go back to paper.

Remember those high school exams on Scantron?
yup...time to go back to that.

[CADEMOCRAT7]

23. Bravo !!!!!!! n/t

[3waygeek]

24. I drove by the Norcross location

around 11:30 this morning, intending to vote on my lunch break. I saw what had to be at least 500 people in line, which stretched almost a full block. I'll try again every day this week, but I suspect I'll have to wait for Tuesday, as my work schedule is just too busy to allow for long waits.

It reminded me of the 2000 election, in which I had to wait almost 3 hours on election day, most of it having to listen to a grade-school teacher's bigoted attacks on Catholics & Jews.

[Tarheel_Dem]

25. I'm voting tomorrow here in NC. I've taken the entire day off, just in case. (nt)

[Peacetrain]

26. God Bless You for Hanging in there!!

:hug:, now that was endurance!!!

[paparush]

28. Massive, heartfelt, THANK YOU!! from NC.

[dana_b]

29. damn, that's dedication

give that woman a drink!! :toast:

[Laelth]

30. I voted on Sept. 22 in Bibb County, GA

You can confirm the status of your vote here: http://sos.georgia.gov/cgi-bin/locator.asp

My wife and I waited about 20 minutes to vote, and we voted on the very first day possible. Last week, when I had to drive by our early-voting location on an errand, I noticed that the lines are much longer now than they were on Sept. 22.

The United States is a LIBERAL Country.

:dem:

-Laelth

[applegrove]

31. WOOHOO!

:woohoo: