6:55 am - 9:05 am.... my voting experience [View All]

[Motown_Johnny]

Holy Crap


I voted in the primaries this year, at the same location. I got there just after 7:00 and was the third one to vote in my precinct. I can only assume that the two who voted ahead of me were working the polls since nobody else was there.


Today I showed up before the polls opened and had At least 1500 and possibly 2000 people ahead of me.


I have been voting in the same location for the last 12 years, and had voted there back in the 80s also. Never saw anything that even slightly resembled this turnout.


The two things worth noting other than the turnout were:

1) One woman's water broke while in line, so she was escorted to the front of the line to polite applause and quiet cheers from the rest of us in line.

2) Many people did not know what precinct they were in, so when the line marshals tried to move people from the main line forward to a short precinct line it was a cluster fuck. No maps to help. Even the people working there were not certain where the boundaries were (and one guy was listed as a different precinct than his voter registration card listed).


Other than that it was pretty straight forward. Some people impatient but nothing out of hand. Just some mild rudeness.


FYI I am on Detroit's east side. We are all (or almost all) Democrats.



Edit to add... when I left the line was just as long if not longer, still a couple thousand people there waiting to vote