I love how Minnesotans actually want to vote. We consistently have high voter turn out for most elections, and now that they made the caucus actually count for something, the turnout for this was history making as well. It was awesome, exciting and I am really really glad that I went.
We were in our little precinct room accepting delegates when one of the volunteers came in at 8pm and said they were going to accept people who were currently still waiting in line, so the balloting would go on until 8:30. She said they had to do it because there were 3000 people at my caucus location. OMG. We were in a large high school, so there was plenty of room, but wow. Some of the classrooms for other precincts even had lines waiting to even get in.
If I had been thinking, I would have taken a picture of my "ballot" - it was a piece of paper from a small legal pad. (the 5x7 size). Across the top the guy wrote "Ballot" and handed it to me. I asked if he was serious, and he assured me that they had run out of the pre-printed ones before 7pm. It was pretty funny.
I wonder if this kind of turn out will get us a primary?
February 05, 2008
I pink puffy heart Minnesotans
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That is so cool. I really hope it gets us a primary. Ours had far less room (elementary school), which may have been part of my frustration. Yay us.
We have a primary in Arizona so it was pretty quick and easy. I'm pretty sad though how few people at my work actually voted. Most of them are young....frustrating.
Yay voting! Our poor precinct chair looked so overwhelmed. She did have enough ballots (ours were about 3x3 — they started out yellow but she quickly had to bust out the white photocopies), but we ran out of space on the sign-in sheets. We even had some young voters who stayed for the whole caucus!
I'm glad I went too.
I don't know if I'm allowed to participate in such an event. Yes, I really do mean that.
oh, I don't mean the voting, but otherwise help.
When I worked for Congress, I didn't go anywhere near a campaign. Some people from our office would take vacation time to campaign for our boss, but even that was considered a bit hinky. Safest to just stay away entirely.
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