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I Voted Already
- Filed under: Local, Ohio 2008, Summit County
- Date: Oct 6,2008
My email inbox and text messaging on my cell phone have been flooded with messages over the past week from the Obama / Biden campaign and Summit County Democrats encouraging me to go vote. I decided to take advantage of it. This past Saturday I went down to the facility down on East Tallmadge Avenue set up by the Summit County Board of Elections to vote early. In the lot there were two volunteers passing out Democratic sample ballots and one guy passing out fliers on Issue 8, which is the proposal to sell the Akron sewer. The only Republican presence in the lot was an empty box truck with Spicer for Judge banners. I'm not sure how many votes that was influencing. There were not any volunteers passing out Republican sample ballots or any literature.
The facility was a large open room inside. In the middle of the room was a bullpen of about 40 computers and 20 workers processing the registrations and ballots. After filling out the paperwork to request my ballot, I waited in an area of about 200 folded metal chairs. There were about 50 people waiting for ballots. My name was called about five minutes later and I took my ballot over to one of the booths and filled out my ballot. After voting I turned my ballot in and walked out. The entire process took about 20 minutes and was very efficient. One of the volunteers I spoke with said that they were processing about 650 people a day and that things had been busiest when people come to vote after work. My hope is that many of those people were registering and voting.
I spoke with a couple of good friends who have been out canvassing this past week in Akron. The volunteers have been registering voters to vote absentee and encouraging them to go to the polls now. Volunteers are blanketing Summit County from Bath and Hudson to inner city Akron. Early voting is the first test of the Democrats ground game. So far, so good. Today is the last day to register to vote in Ohio.
12 Responses for "I Voted Already"
Did you have to prove your identity to vote ?
So Alex, where is the John McCain Support? Did you give up on the race or is there another box truck comming? Sorry shape when the supposed most powerful Republican party boss in Ohio is only endorsing his Boyf - opps I mean judge and none for the Presidential candidate. Shame Shame!
I had to show ID. I used my drivers license.
Those dems want us to vote before any possible revelations occur.
Pretty sad of our local party. We and others in our neighborhood tried to get McCain-Palin signs but were told we HAD to take other signs, too. Shows how little support Arshinkoff can muster for local candidates.
Oh, the other signs? Wasted. They are not going up. Do the local candidates know about the waste?
TR, I have heard that. Not surprising.
Hey folks here's the take. When you go to GOP HQ in Canal Place on the 3rd floor to get signs just say to the snooty little blond Yes I'll take the other signs but GET ALL YOU NEED FOR McCain as well.
Then as you go around the last corner after you enter the elevator area leave the "Balony Bill" signs along with all the other egg head Alex loyalists signs there or out in the parking lot against the wall. If possible put a post-it note on them that says "Not One Red Cent" just so Alex gets the message.
Then the blonde is forced to work for a living and has to go out and get the signs and bring them back in.
Just trying to help.
Sorry folks that's not Arshinkoff's job that's the candidates job to get their own signs out. It's the hardest part of the campaign and takes the most work. And all candidates hate to do it.
Going door to door and asking, or calling people is the only way to get sign locations. Or you can hire a telemarketing firm to call but a lot of those locations are sketchy.
Anyone who has ran or been involved in a campaign knows blaming Arshinkoff for not distributing yard signs is idiotic.
Notice the repub's is a truck, the dems is not hitched….if the repubs tried this they would probably get towed…..
Try again clueless. It is the chairs main responsibility to get candidates elected. If he fails to do so then he is to be thrown out of office, period.
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
-R.Heinlein
Wrong Clueless. It is the Chairs job to elect candidates and organize events to promote them. If he fails to do that (which Alex is beginning to excell at) then it is time to go.
I voted early yesterday afternoon @ Montgomery County admin bldg. There were about a dozen people there, no waiting. As soon as I walked in, I was taken over to a poll worker who signed me in, checked ID and gave me the OCR ballot. The physical ballot itself was kind of awkward because it was printed on a huge card sheet, but otherwise not a big deal. Took about 20 minutes total and was very efficient.
Definitely a better experience than, say, voting on election day 2006 with those electronic beasts.
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