2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumLong Lines forming in NC for first day of early in-person voting
(hoping this is a good sign for us):
North Carolinas early voting period began Thursday morning with more than 150 people standing in line when the doors opened at 8 a.m. at the Hal Marshal Annex on the north side of Charlottes uptown.
About 350 sites across the state feature early voting until Nov. 3, and the Hal Marshal Annex was the first Mecklenburg County site to open.
Among those who arrived to vote early was a group from Obama for America, which marched from the organizations Charlotte headquarters on East Ninth Street to vote early. At mid-morning, dozens of people were still waiting in line outside the building.
Some of the early voting sites were reporting a 45-minute to hour-long wait for people to get inside to cast their ballots. In 2008, wait times exceeded longer than an hour at some spots.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/10/18/3605252/long-lines-as-nc-early-voting.html#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)DemKittyNC
(743 posts)N.C. will definitely go blue!!
MSMITH33156
(879 posts)LOL!
Long lines in a county Obama won by 100k votes.
skeewee08
(1,983 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,395 posts)at one of the 5 early voting sites in Orange County, NC.
Orange County went 72% for Obama in 2008.
ncgrits
(916 posts)a few minutes. Lots of young people. Lots of African Americans. Lots of us grinning at each other!
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)It is a small venue but, was very busy place!
whttevrr
(2,345 posts)Go, go, go... vote, vote, vote!
scottx1
(5 posts)Arpaios thugs take the Arizona police state to a new, very criminal, high.
Sworn court papers have been filed in two cases pending before the high federal appellate court in San Francisco detailing Arizona law enforcements willingness to engage in serious felonies to assist the Sheriffs friends and to silence Arpaio critics. Arizona police have issued threats against civil litigation to protect Arpaios closest friend and top advisor (Justin Michael Nelson) from civil litigation AKA Police Obstruction of Justice and Police Federal Civil Rights Crimes. (18 U.S.C. §§ 241, 242) Arizona police have conspired with Dignity Health of San Francicso to silence a well-known critic of Arpaio via violence YES, attempted murder to be exact, now being covered up by Arpaio police state stooges. Sensational stuff, but, all on the appellate record, sworn and undisputed.
Situation normal for Arizona, official felony crimes against the justice system and official crimes of violence to assist Arpaio and Arpaios cronies by threatening critics and foisting police sponsored violence against those in the cross-hairs of Arpaios Maricopa County Sheriffs Office (MCSO). Those with a knowledge of Arizona law enforcement and government should not be a surprised as to how the Arizona police state operates. The bold criminal conduct of police caught in these cases reveals the state of lawlessness existing in Arizona whereby law enforcement doesnt even bother to cover-up their crimes satisfactorily. It is truly anything goes concerning police misconduct and outright police crime in Arizona.
See
http://www.scribd.com/doc/110442436/Arpaio-inspired-AZ-Police-Crimes-Sworn-9th-cir-Court-Filing
+ Scott Huminski
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)East Charlotte is a heavily Democratic area. I am giddy! It was a really nice day, almost all Obama supporters in line. We had great talks about politics, travel and immigration (one of the voters waiting with me was a first time voter, naturalized citizen).
This weekend I will canvass for the campaign. I have been volunteering a few hours a week since summer, mostly voter registration. It is great fun to finally begin to turn out those voters we worked so hard to sign up out!