Voting Complete

This morning Kirky and I arrived at Ward 3, Precinct 1 in Salem, MA at 6:47. When we arrived there were already 12 people in line - quite unusual from the past few years when we were second or third in line at 7am.

According to my watch, the poll opened at 6:59am ET and we went in to vote. The woman ahead of us had tried to register for an absentee ballot 2 weeks earlier but had not received it as of last night and wanted to vote in-person. There seemed to be some initial confusion as to what to do but it sounded as if they got her to sign some sort of affidavit stating she did not end up voting absentee and allowed her to cast a ballot.

While we were at the booth, someone's ballot got stuck in the Accu-Vote machine as it was being tallied and it took about 5 minutes to fix it and re-run it through. When we got to the machine I noticed we were 10 and 11 as far as votes being counted and upon leaving the polling location around 7:10am ET I counted 24 additional people in line.

Both of us voted for John Kerry, John Tierney, and John Keenan. It was a John kind of day.

UPDATE: Technorati and other sites are starting to catch "Web votes" by embedding rel="vote-for", rel="vote-against" or rel="vote-abstain" in HREFS linking to sites for candidates they support. I've embedded the code in my site.

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