Who Else Voted With Paper And Pencil? Where Did You Vote?

I love marking an x next to my candidates, folding the big yellow paper ballot and slipping it into the cardboard IGA box. I live in Vermont. Safe to say we're as blue as can be.

fortunately, i'm really good at standardized tests :)

Minneapolis MN

hand-counted like you.

Any machine can be rigged or mis-programmed.

Hand-couting is the best.

san diego cakufornia, liked it, and there is a paper trail

Small mountain town.
Old school paper ballots :-)
Place was packed (40 people) alot for here.
Knew just about everyone there

Guesstimate
35 Kerry
3 Shrub
2 3rd party

Damn it feels sooooooooooo good.

Was like I gave * an official slap in the face!

Brookline, Massachusetts

In Portage, Michigan. Had to fill in the ovals next to the candidate of choice. Then we inserted the ballot into a machine.

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but a real good move this year. Looking ahead, the polls were located in the gymnasium of the school instead of the 200 year old Town Hall which was quaint because the original oak ballot box was used as well as the original benches, but it was small and parking was a disaster. This morning the school parking lot was full, but inside really organised and lines moving along fast.Brought the old oak ballot box with them though. Still use booths with curtains. We only had two agendas on the ballot--one to outlaw bear baiting and another re a tax cap so not too much to read.

On edit--small town midcoast Maine.

For the optical scanning machines. My friend and I blackened in the Kerry/Edwards oval as dark as humanly possible.

:)

easiest. i loved it

already at 6:30 am (1/2 hr before polls open) large crowds, the gym was filled to capacity - no parking places in the school lot, and raining cats and dogs..

Go Dems! Make it a landslide that even the cheating Repukes cannot overcome with all their dirty tricks.

Voter # 180 at 8:45 AM

<<<<<<<<<<<<< Proudly wearing my new avatar.

Though I did absentee this time, which is obviously pencil/paper. Our normal ballotting in this county is pencil/paper, with opitcal scanner. I love the feeling of filling in the little lines... I've been behind too many people at the self-checkout touchscreen machines at Home Depot to trust touch screen voting!

for my Nebraska absentee ballot!

I voted against every single Republican. It felt good!!

I filled in my oval as dark as I could; I'm paranoid about freeper employees in our clerk's office erasing my vote.

i have used pencil. we connect the arrow.
no butterflys here.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

My polling place is good like that...good ol' MA.

And so it was paper. I had to complete the arrow pointing to my candidate of choice. I voted from Amsterdam and mailed it in weeks ago.

Almost like punch cards, but instead of punching, you fill in the holes with the little pen.

Totally reliable and cheap. I bet the whole setup costs 20 bucks to manufacture. Why in the world do we expensive, overly-compicated unreliable computers to do this stuff?

The nice man with the funny picture of the elephant assured me it was standard procedure.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

filled in one little circle with a number 2 pencil in Denison, Texas USA.

Solidly Kerry small(er) town in MetroWest.

Senators Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad........

they also had an election official there making sure ids were looked at for people just registering today. I was not asked for Id, because I vote in everything, as much as i can.

I'm confident. :hi:

The best way to vote, IMHO.

Hi Everyone!

Don't you feel great?!?!?!? We had a new system this election--fill in the oval. President Kerry's name was right there--no number or butterfly ballot crap. Went very smoothly. Take care

Susan
Orangevale, CA

And I voted *weeks* ago. Felt great, casting that ballot for Kerry/Edwards, Boxer, and every other Dem available.

I just took my mom up to vote. She'll be 84 on November 7th. She is a life-long Republican and she voted a straight Dem ticket! I knew she was voting for Kerry before we went up, but I told her to vote for who she wanted to. We used paper ballot and filled in the ovals with black pencil.

In a short time, I'll go and vote with my husband.

And I agree, there's nothing better than that feeling.

I took my lucky pen but they said I had to use pencil.
I hope slash or x is same.
Now I want to go back and check them.
oops. Kansas is so red anyhow, but I still was giddy to mark Kerry/edwards. It would be so cool if we shocked the world and went blue.

Our town only has about 200 people. I was 157 to vote. I think we have several others in the county for our polling place though.


On EDIT:
By the way, everyone at the polling place was in a GREAT mood. I loudly announced how happy I was to be there and I had been waiting for MONTHS. They said, oh, you decided a long time ago, huh. I said, I decided in 2000. Lots of laughter. No visible scowls.
I am so high today I can't imagine what will happen to my mood if it isn't a landslide for Kerry.

Feed into AccuVote optical scanner.

:dem:

I voted straight party Dem, but I also filled in the arrow for Kerry/Edwards (I've been waiting so long to do that).

I stuck my ballot right into the optical scanning machine afterwards and saw the green light go on. What a rush! :)


You all need to get an "i voted" avatar.

On a side note I think the lotto has helped out here as you have to bubble in you numbers.

myself. I have one more that's going later this evening. went at 7:00 am at a little church off of midwest blvd. nice little line some folks were already there at 6:30 am.