Out in the OK precincts...an encouraging sign

[Wednesdays]

I went to my old polling place (a church in north Oklahoma City) at 11 AM, saw the vote count at 106. There were three elderly ladies running the polls, and they were very polite and helpful...once they saw I was off the rolls at that precinct (I had moved since I last voted), they called the county election board to find my new polling place. Nothing appeared amiss there.

After helping some people to the polls, I voted at the right precinct at 2:30 PM. For some reason there were two precincts polling in the same location (another church), and when I voted my precinct and the other precinct were at numbers 295 and 395, respectively. I didn't see anything out of the ordinary there, either.

In between, I gave my mother a lift to her poll in Edmond. (Voting in my mother's precinct was very heavy--the count was already 755 just before noon.) When we got in (the polling place was yet another church) there was an easel with a sign directing people with last names "A - Lynch" to one table of workers. Below the "A - Lynch" sign was a small pin-up board with some pictures of service people and the caption, "Pray for those serving." At the table where my mother sat down to vote, there were a couple of group pictures of American soldiers and a flyer for "Operation Support Our Troops" just happening to be lying around on the table. :eyes:

However, and here's the good news: while my mother was busy filling her ballot, I could catch glimpses of how people voted as they fed their ballots into the machine. I couldn't determine individual races, but I could easily tell the "straight party" voting because on the ballots we use, those marks at the top of the ballot are large and easy to detect even from 15 feet away. Of the eleven ballots I saw, 4 went straight Democratic, 7 were blank (meaning a split ticket), and none were straight Republican.

Now I admit that 11 voters is a small sample, but considering the area (you can't get much "redder" than Edmond, Oklahoma) I take that as a pretty good indication that things are breaking our way. :bounce:

[AndyA]

1. That is great for conservative Oklahoma! Good news!! n/m