Comments on: Voting Day Observations

By: Norris Hall

Norris Hall — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:08:10 +0000

Rather than waste 20 million dollars to support a ban on Gay marriage why doesn’t the Mormon church do something useful like spend it to feed the poor or provide shelter for the homeless. There are so many good uses for that money.

What kind of Christian message does it send when you spend that kind of money on political campaigns while the poor go hungry and the sick can’t afford to see a doctor.

Handing 20 million dollars over to television stations for anti gay ads is a big waste of money in a world of suffering.

By: Louie

Louie — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:23:54 +0000

In our neighborhood, we saw SEVERAL churches with “Yes on 102″ signs at the entrance to their property! I believe that it was 100 feet away from the actual polling stations, but still. Every single person going to vote there HAS to drive by that sign.

Separation of church and State is reapidly deteriorating. No thanks to the “new” Republicans getting into bed with the evangelicals. All for the promise of getting out the vote in their favor.

Very troubling indeed.

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:33:26 +0000

I was lucky, I went to vote at my polling place in Orange County, CA and was immediatley taken by the lady at the doort to a worker who quickly found my name and within two minutes I was voting at a machine. I like the machines we use here because it asked yout two verify your votes once on a screen, then prints out a copy for you to review as well. I always feel pretty confident that my vote was accurate.

I did complain as there was a lady about 20 feet outside the door with a Yes on 8 sign scrawled on a cardboard sheet and pasted to a Boogie Board. As I was leaving, the same lady who helped me asked the lady to move farther away from the polling location.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:55:26 +0000

Lines in Wichita, KS, were pretty long and packed, at 5:15 am, but trickled down during the working day, but are picking up again according to my friends in the election office. I voted like two weeks ago. Early voting is the way to go (and even that was crowded!)

And I have never, ever understood why churches are allowed to be used as polling places. Separation of church and state much? Anybody got any answers to that?

By: kevin

kevin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:34:23 +0000

Voting observation from San Francisco: I got to my polling place at 7:30AM and was shocked to see the line go down the block and around the corner. I’m not sure if these are new people to the neighborhood or people who are excited about voting since, after living in the same neighborhood for 10 years, I’ve never had to wait in line to vote before. Most of those voting were educated, middle-class, young professionals of various ethnicities, including a few interracial and same-sex couples. There were no voting irregularities I could see and the poll workers were doing their job very well. I’m hoping this turnout is good news both for Obama and opponents of Prop 8.