Is it over yet?

[RU OX Alum]

Originally Posted by Tinia2

While it is still very important to everyone to get out and vote (after all most if not all states have other important matters on ballots) this is the
Today's Polls and Final Election edition from fivethirtyeight.com:

Today's Polls and Final Election Projection: Obama 349, McCain 189


It's Tuesday, November 4th, 2008, Election Day in America. The last polls have straggled in, and show little sign of mercy for John McCain. Barack Obama appears poised for a decisive electoral victory.


http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/...-election.html

PLEASE-IF YOU HAVE NOT YET DONE SO, GET OUT AND VOTE!!!!!
Too many other issues and matters on the ballots that are just as worthy of a vote.

I agree with your last part, but about the first...how could they call it this early? It isn't even 3 o'clock yet.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by RU OX Alum

I agree with your last part, but about the first...how could they call it this early? It isn't even 3 o'clock yet.

They're not calling it. He's citing fivethirtyeight.com, which compiles and weights polls and demographic data to make statistical projections about the probablity of various outcomes. It currently shows that, based on polls and other data, the statistical probablity that John McCain can gain a majority in the Electoral College at 1.1%

[Buttonz]

Mom and I went at 8AM and were in and out. It was nice and shocking!

[epchick]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

For a lot of people, part of voting is the experience of actually being at your polling place, pulling the lever, and getting that little "I Voted" sticker.

There's a lever? I don't understand why there are different ways to vote. Our voting is all electronic. You get this a Voter ID card to use on the touch-screen "computer." I thought it was like that everywhere. It seems like a much more effective & efficient way to vote, than to punch out a hole in a ballot.

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

I wuz robbed!

If you voted in El Paso you would have gotten a sticker.

[Buttonz]

Originally Posted by epchick

There's a lever? I don't understand why there are different ways to vote. Our voting is all electronic. You get this a Voter ID card to use on the touch-screen "computer." I thought it was like that everywhere. It seems like a much more effective & efficient way to vote, than to punch out a hole in a ballot.

There are different ways to vote...in every state even. NY has some electronic, some the old style with the lever. Sometimes just blocks apart (yes, I know this for a fact).

They really need to set laws for the entire COUNTRY on how to vote, regarding the type of machines, early voting laws, hours the polling places are opened (some close as early as 7PM!) etc. It's crazy that NOTHING is uniformed besides the choices for President.

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by epchick

If you voted in El Paso you would have gotten a sticker.

But . . .then I'd be in EL PASO!

[AGDee]

I think what types of ballots, etc. should be left up to the localities. They can't all afford computers. We had the scantron type ballots and I think these are ideal. They were able to just set up additional cardboard dividers to accommodate more voters when the lines were getting out of control. You could quickly double how many spots were available. The machine scans and tabulates them as you put your ballot into it so at the end of the night, they print out a report and turn it in.