Voting in the South

I voted today. Nearly everyone in my family had taken advantage of early voting. I have all the time in the world to go out and do so myself, so why didn't I? Because in Atlanta there were only three places offering early voting, and the waits at each of them were in excess of three hours daily. In the last election 3.5 million people turned out. As of yesterday 2 million voters had already voted, so I figured that we'd roll the dice and brave the early birds voting in our local precinct. Since there are 150 precincts open on election day, versus 3 for early voting, I figured we'd be better off. And I was right.

We arrived in the darkness at the Middle School, waited in line. Although they didn't open the polls, the election workers had everything teed up. We filled out our certificates, and were located on the rolls (electronically!) all we had to do from there was wait for 7:00 AM and vote. We were done by 7:20 and on our way to the deli for breakfast.

I took advantage of my free Starbucks and had potato latkes.

Now all we have to do is wait for the results.