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Earth_First

(14,910 posts) Mon Nov 5, 2012, 08:44 PM Nov 2012

800 voters per hour in Ohio; NPR

Heard this on the way home tonight.

At one location today in early voting, they were using an empty retail location at nearly 80,000 sq. ft. -the poll worker stating how crowded it was, yet everything was moving in an orderly fashion...

800 per hour!

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800 voters per hour in Ohio; NPR (Original Post) Earth_First Nov 2012 OP

Where was that? Renew Deal Nov 2012 #1

i hope all those voters are for president obama. ellenfl Nov 2012 #2

Renew Deal

(81,861 posts)

1. Where was that?

Reply to Earth_First (Original post)

Mon Nov 5, 2012, 08:49 PM

Nov 2012

That's a bit crazy. 13 a minute. How long did they go at that pace?

ellenfl

(8,660 posts)

2. i hope all those voters are for president obama.

Reply to Earth_First (Original post)

Mon Nov 5, 2012, 08:56 PM

Nov 2012

on his show this afternoon, thom hartmann said that 39 ohio counties got new computer software for their voting machines today. i think we're going to need a real landslide.

ellen fl

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