Here in the small (approx 4M residents) southern coastal town of North Berwick where I live, the polls opened at 8:00 a.m. I was there at 7:30 a.m. & there were between 40 -50 folks already there. By the time I left after voting at about 8:10 a.m. the school parking lot was full and folks were already parking on the streets. I drove to work in Kennebunk & the town hall parking lot was full and all the parking places up & down Main Street were taken....this was at about 8:30 a.m. plenty of crowds on the sidewalks going to & from the town hall.

Here in Maine we were not badly impacted by Sandy, so no polling places had to be moved.

It was a very emotional moment for me as I voted for President Obama.....knowing that in the future I will be voting via absentee ballot since my husband & I will be retiring to Ireland as soon as we sell our house.......




GOBAMA

I live in central suffolk county, south shore. Long Island, NY. Storm affected my area but not enough to get in the way of voting! Crawled over broken glass (figuratively) and voted loud and proud LOL!

I asked the poll watcher how many people had voted. When I voted at noon, they said I was about #320 out of 1200. That seemed low to me but he seemed to think it was much higher than it had been in the past.