Oh, one concern...our polling place is the county nursing home and while I waited I saw several residents being brought in on wheelchairs and hospital beds. Some were obviously mentally incapacitated and there were people there explaining the parties and the choices to them so they could vote. A couple of them clearly had no clue what was being said to them. I found that odd. Definitely some room for manipulation there. There appeared to be a couple of observers listening in and I couldn't hear everything that was said so nothing definitive, but I don't know, something about that bothered me.
Oh, one concern...our polling place is the county nursing home and while I waited I saw several residents being brought in on wheelchairs and hospital beds. Some were obviously mentally incapacitated and there were people there explaining the parties and the choices to them so they could vote. A couple of them clearly had no clue what was being said to them. I found that odd. Definitely some room for manipulation there. There appeared to be a couple of observers listening in and I couldn't hear everything that was said so nothing definitive, but I don't know, something about that bothered me.
5:45 this morning there were over 100 people ahead of me. Usually I walk right in at 6:30. It took an hour. My wife voted at 11:15 and the line was still an hour long. Carmel is the most republican city in the most republican county (Hamilton) in Indiana. Trump's rallies here, like everywhere else, drew massive crowds. The heavy voter turnout at least here is all Trump. He might get 90%. Having Pence on the ticket helps him here too. Indiana is solid red.
I voted early but went with co-worker just to observe.
I wore a Hillary t just to see if I could cause a few heart attacks among some of the old white racists here.
To my chagrin I went unnoticed because of the HUGE hispanic turnout. I was frankly shocked as this county and state is bible belt *** backwards red and ive never seen minority turnout like this(including African Americans), shame it will go Republican like it always does.
My shirt didn't have much impact but you could tell there were "some people" obviously perturbed by so many people of color exercising their right.
There goes the neighboorhood!
people are uptight, and no one wants to talk about the election. I never saw voting like this, it was as if people were going to a funeral and just wanted to get in and out.
Central Iowa here. Went at 8:30. There was no wait. I was the 175th voter. Usually it's around 80 so I'd say a fairly good turnout so far.
PS. There was the man with no registration, documentation of name and address and trying to vote with his passport. He looked/sounded middle eastern. The sent him to the County Auditor.
Once more just register every american to vote, tie it to their Ss# make them do a fingerprint scan to vote... Or just issue everyone a public id card... Its extremely cheap to do even with security features...