Turnout

[jiacinto]

What is it like?

[Wonk]

1. related

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=199848

[pmbryant]

2. I wouldn't take same-day turnout reports too seriously

During too many elections recently (actually, pretty much every major one), I hear reports that "turnout is exceptionally high" or "turnout is unusually low", only to find out a few days later, after all the votes are counted, that turnout was pretty much right in line with past elections.

--Peter

[MI Cherie]

3. I was voter #80 ...

... but then, we didn't have major issues up. Just two people I never heard of for local offices — running unopposed — and a tax increase measure.

[nostamj]

4. in brooklyn............... NIL n/t

[gauguin57]

5. i was all alone

I took a while to double-check my choices (ballot questions, lots of little piddly offices, state justices, county officials, etc.) ... never saw a human being besides the poll-watchers. No other cars there before or after me.

I live in a verrrry Republican-heavy precinct, so I'm sure I was one of only a handful of Democrats to show up today.

Beautiful day, too. County administrators race a real barnburner; lots of issues that spark the imagination. Still, the place was a ghost town.

Now, my long-time polling place was NOT listed as one of the "changes" in the newspaper. But the place where I always vote is being renovated, so there were all these signs pointing voters around the construction equipment, back to an outbuilding about a quarter-mile away. I wonder whether people were put off by a building that was still officially listed as the polling place (when it wasn't) but was ripped up and crawling with construction workers and equipment.