Vote!

By on September 15, 2009 5:42 pm in Election09, Government

Your correspondent just returned from his polling place (Congregation Mount Sinai) where reports are of a very light turnout today, despite almost ideal weather. We’re all weary of constant phone calls, flyers stuffing our mailboxes, and candidates and their sisters and their cousins and their aunts accosting us at subway entrances and on street corners. Still, if you’re a registered Democrat (there’s no primary contest on the Republican side, so if you’re GOP or some other party or an independent, you’ll have to wait for the general election in November to cast your ballot), you have an opportunity to make a difference in this election. The polls are open until 9:00 P.M., so please vote!

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  • nabeguy

    I voted first thing this morning at PS 8 after dropping off my daughter. Only one person in front of me, which I attributed to the hour. I hope that Claude’s report of a light turn-out was limited to CMS. It would be a shame to think that all those robo-calls went to waste…although the negative reaction to them may explain the turn-out. When did good- old-fashioned-pounding-the-pavement-holes-in-the-soles-kissing-the-babies campaigning get co-opted by Verizon? Feh!

  • T.K. Small

    Perhaps fortunately, I did not have a primary today. Did anyone notice whether the the electronic Ballot Marking Devices were in use at any of the local polling sites? By way of clarification, these are the machines which are supposedly accessible which I had so much trouble with last year.

  • nabeguy

    T.K. there was one at PS 8

  • T.K. Small

    Thanks nabeguy, Every polling site is supposed to have a working machine. Folks should also know that the machines are not only for use by voters with disabilities. It would be very helpful in terms of training poll workers if more people voted with this equipment.