Voted in Sumter, SC

Lines were long. Got there about 8:30 and just got home. About an hour and a half wait. Poor organization, but we're a small town and there isn't a whole lot of room in the elks building for lines. Got to listen to a lady with her 6 year old in tow extolling the virtues of the Creation Museum in Kentucky and how excited she was to take her kids to a "real museum where they could learn the truth." I'd be willing to bet I can guess her vote. At least mine will cancel hers out.

Someone pointed out that anyone in line could vote who looked close to 18. They ran out of the official numbering cards that authorized your vote so they were tearing off bits of paper and writing the number on it. There was a 17 year old waiting behind me that noted all she'd have to do is write a number on a piece of paper and she'd be able to vote illegally.

I've done everything I can. Donated my last 10 bucks to Obama, talked to people, called people, debunked emails, and voted. The rest is up to the other citizens of this state. Hope it goes blue, but I'm not holding my breath. :(

I voted for Obama at an Elks Building at the Second Mill Precinct, which I believe is one of the most conservative precincts in the state (which is saying something:banghead: ). I heard one person in line say how nice Madison, Wisconsin is except that it is "more liberal than San Francisco". This is why I went to college in now blue North Carolina and will head back there as soon as my graduate school applications go through.

And Sumter really isn't a small town, but we have poor infrastructure for a town our size. I think that with being 15 miles from the nearest interstate and being surrounded by 30 miles of rural areas our city thinks of itself as a small town when 40,000 really isn't that small. We are not exactly Wasilla :D

We really are close!