<p>1) Our usual voting place at a school was moved to a portable, presumably because they were expecting a large crowd and didn’t want to disrupt the kids.</p>
<p>2) Absolutely no line at 9 a.m. Though I did notice that the page I initialed had three people who already had early voted.</p>
<p>3) The poll worker really emphasized the caucus process, which has never been done before in my years of voting there.</p>
<p>4) As I was leaving, two women came in and one seemed really nervous. She finally asked, “If I vote ‘this way’ (Democratic) in the primary can I vote anyway I want in November?” So, I guess there’s one Rush Limbaugh fan who fell into step.</p>
<p>What a switch to see the Democratic line be the long line and the Republican line be the one with no one in it. It’s usually so lonely on the Democratic side!</p>
<p>youdon’tsay…the absolute worst thing about a Tx Clinton win, would be Rush Limbaugh taking all the credit. He is so full of himself (as well as the other things he’s full of), that would push him over the edge.</p>
<p>My precinct had eslate machines, which I hate, hate, hate due to potential fraud problems. When I complained, the poll worker said, “Nobody cares.”</p>
<p>It will be very interesting to see how many turn out for the precinct convention tonight.</p>
<p>I wonder why there was no follow-up on the fraud problems that Bloomberg
talked about after the NY primary. I guess because there is no way to go back and count votes.</p>
<p>It has been strange this primary, there doesn’t seem to be the number of political yard signs that usually abound in Dallas. And not a whole lot of bumper stickers. Paticularly absent are pro-McCain items. I was in central Texas this weekend and there are still Ron Paul things everywhere.</p>
<p>Is it because of all the intra-family conflicts on the candidates? H and I have agreed to support no candidate financially because we would cancel each other out. I think there could be a divorce if one of us put up a yard sign!</p>
<p>astrophysicsmom: Too true… if HRC wins, Rush Limbaugh’s head is going to be too big to contain in that radio studio ever again… they’ll need a new one.</p>
<p>I don’t normally see myself as a conspiracy theorist, but computerized voting seems to fling the doors wide open to fraud and abuse. I mean, how do you truly, objectively verify the accuracy of computer tallied votes? There’s no paper trail.</p>
<p>When I went to vote in the Virginia Primary, they asked if I wanted a paper ballot, or to use the computerized machines. I chose the paper ballot, and even quoted Ronald Reagan: “Trust but verify”.</p>
<p>I voted last week. Waited in line 20 minutes. My daughter, who turned 18 in November, voted for the first time today. I feel so proud of her. She won’t tell me who she supported! Her father told her she doesn’t have to.</p>
<p>I stood in line for 30 minutes while a election clerk tried to ‘cancel’ a man’s vote and reissue him a new code for another eslate. Ya just gotta wonder. </p>
<p>I’ll tell you what I observed in my area. A LOT of Republicans voting in the Democratic primary… “Hillary to block…” Also, the Hispanic turnout has been phenomenal.</p>
<p>The thing I thought was interesting was the big focus of the Obama campaign to put a full court press on young voters. My son (who happened to be home from Spring Break now) has been inundated with calls and campaigners ringing our doorbell to convince him to vote for Obama. Interestingly, he never even used his home address/phone when he registered to vote, so they obviously tracked him down through other sources. Also, for the times he wasn’t available, the campaigners didn’t even try to talk to me or my husband – they only wanted to talk to my son! It was almost as if they thought his voted counted more (or could be swayed more). Little did they know that he is the only voter in our household who is unwavering in who he wants to vote for – and that is Ron Paul!</p>
<p>We’re getting ‘focused’ phone calls as well. Hillary has called a dozen times in the last two days; I’m sure because my husband has an Hispanic surname. Little do the Clintons know… he is a die-hard Republican…lol!</p>
<p>My Indian-citizen coworker got a text message this morning telling her to remind her parents (who still live in India) to vote for some non-presidential candidate. Amazing…!</p>
<p>I went to vote this morning here in Houston. Took the light rail to my polling place, ten minutes from work, and was back to the office within 45 minutes. No waiting. Used an eslate machine. Came down with a cold at midday and so didn’t go out to caucus this evening… Wonder if the candidates are resorting to biological warfare…? ;)</p>