My voting experience in Johnson Co. (Warrensburg) MO today

Just had to give my two cents coming from a rather "rural" area.

To start, I had a hell of a time sleeping last night.

My wife and I voted around 11am here in our precinct in Johnson Co.
Now the history (since we moved to MO, we have voted in this precinct for past 4 years) of this precinct is that it is in the basement of a church in a town with about 200 people.

When we arrived there were more cars parked around the church, as I commented to my wife this was the most cars I have ever seen at this time. I tend to vote at the same time regardless.

When we entered, there were two tables set up right at the door (unusual I thought, never been like this before?). At the table were three high school students (never before in 4 years), but nevertheless I thought it was cool to have them there to see the process. There job seemed to be to check to make sure you were at the right precinct.

After the "check", we moved to another set of tables and went through the usual routine. Sign name, get a sticky note with voter number, pick up ballot, vote, etc.

What was disconcerting to me was they had rearranged the room, everything seemed out of order. Now to you that may not seem like a big idea, but really made me nervous initially.

I was voter 377. Which to give you perspective, I have never been that high of a number voting at the same time. So, I am assuming turnout is higher than average.

The Diebold machines were back (also present during primary). Our precinct had 3. One man was using it while I was there, EVERYONE else (approximately 8-10 people) while I was there were requesting paper. Oh ya, I voted on paper too, as did my wife. They did ask her if she wanted to use Diebold, and she declined. Being next in line, they never asked me, just gave me a paper ballot. Maybe they recognized me from the primaries (I kind of raised a stink about the machines).
I talked with one of my coworkers prior to my voting, and I asked her if there were machines at her precinct, and she said "no" only paper. So far, in JOCO, the only precinct with machines was mine.

We were out in about 15 minutes overall.

I hope everyone else's voting goes this smoothly.

I was ready, like I told my wife, to raise a stink (had phone numbers via Skinner, and the MO SOS election office phone number just in case) about the drivers license issue, but they did not ask.

Cheers to everyone voting today. I did my part to deliver McCaskill!

Was it at the Methodist church?

And I noticed Diebold making the rounds all summer long around here. There vehicles were at the courthouse constantly last summer.