Early voting experience, Lake County Indiana...Saturday

[IndianaJones]

Arrive at polling place. No visible line extending outside building. Some volunteers outside tell me that the wait is only an hour and the lines the shortest they have seen them.

Enter the building and go through metal detector. At this point, I tell my wife the wait will be more like 3 hours.

The line snakes through the main lobby, down two side hallways, by some empty vending machines and finally to the 10 voting machines they have set up.

People are very patient, very little complaining. Only one vocal guy that was yelling that they should have had 40 machines instead of 10. The wait was almost exactly 3 hours.

Cast my vote for Obama/Biden and let my daughter hit the red button.

I feel in my heart that Indiana will turn blue for Barack Obama.

[cali]

1. aww. I remember voting with my kid when he was little

not that there was a button to push. sure hope you're right about Indiana. That would be amazing and wonderful.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

2. BINGO, CITIZEN

[SemiCharmedQuark]

3. What a great story! Have fun in Grant Park tomorrow!

[Hawkowl]

4. My first election in '68

My first memory of an election was going to the polling place in Northwest Indiana in 1968--when I was 2 years old! I distinctly remember holding my father's hand and staring around at everyone's knee caps. But the big impression was the huge voting machine that people stepped into, pulled the curtain and made a bunch of clicking noises before the red handle was pulled. Does Indiana still have the old fashioned mechanical voting machines?

[IndianaJones]

5. no, they are the electronic type now. nt.