Don’t know about local polling places. I can tell you that here in Clark County the number of ballots mailed out were 215,741. As of Sun., Nov. 2nd, the number of voted ballots received by Clark County elections office was 126,533.

I am hearing that it is still another very close race between our good Democratic Governor Chris Gregoire and the scum land developer-GOP (big fight here about him calling himself GOP on the ballot and not Republican, to try to confuse dumb people)Dino Rossi. If people haven’t voted here yet, please get out asap and vote for Gregoire among other good candidates if you are moved to do so.

I can also report that my mother in law and brother in law voted in person today in Odgen, Utah early this morning, and were in and out in about 30 minutes–no problems.

I look forward to what everyone has to say from around the country here at the Lake today!

Yes on Prop 8 also had caravans of cars riding up and down El Camino with large American flags, out in the rain on Saturday.

My daughter is working the polls and will report later.

This AM the parking was too full. The lines were everywhere. We went back at prime “low tide” of 9:45 AM ( a known fact from my 10+ years as a precinct captain) and the line was short and quick. Parking was quite easy then too.

No problems. There was someone collecting a tally of Dem v Rep voters reporting. The Dem list was three times longer.

One hipster couple with their kids at the local coffee shop around the corner werent sure they had time to vote–they had gotten up early and brought the kids to the polling place for the historic vote but couldnt find parking and had to get the kids to school. The dad said he had to work and didnt know if he could vote now: “I guess I’ll have to be a sinner.”

The polling place’s neighborhood is residential and all the spots are taken by people who live there. The parking lot for the polling place had 40 spaces available which were full (they rent out the rest), and the parking lot attendants were turning people away–the line to get in tovote looked about 150 people. There are gonna be some very frustrated people who wanted to vote today.

I am going out later (I tried 2x so far to get in there–once before the polls opened and again after breakfast) If it stops raining I will walk. If it doesnt and I cant park there, I will go provisional at another less crowded location.

Another problem is that there are parking meters on Hollywood at the front of the polling place, and currently the lines look like an hour-plus..can you imagine getting parking ticket because you were standing in line to vote!

On the plus side, the people who do stick around to vote are slacker tattooed liberals who live close by and can walk(that would be me); however no one should be disenfranchised because of lack of parking/having a real job.

I guess this is why people vote absentee in CA. Hopefully the early voters and absentees will make up for the people who cant get into vote, like the dad I met. The grrr-arrrrgh factor seemed pretty high on the drivers looking for parking, very aggro and cranky–thwarted.