I’ve only got a few minutes before class, so I need to make this lickity-quick.

I voted at Dulaney High. I stopped there on my way to class — 8:15ish. It took thirty-five minutes to wait in line, get checked in, wait in line again, and vote. (I usually vote in the afternoon when there are less people waiting to vote).

They had about three-quarters of the machines working. On battery power. Because they had no electrical cords. Not their fault — the stuff came packaged in bags they weren’t allowed to open until last night. When they did, “Where are the power cords?” Thankfully, I was able to vote before the machine died.

One election judge did tell me that a rep from Diebold had been at Dulaney for about two hours trying to get power cords. Why these machines can’t just take standard laptop power cords I don’t know, but if they could, it seems like you could just run down to CompUSA, buy a bunch, and charge it to Diebold.

Anyway. So I waited in line and checked out the ass of this cute recently-relocated-from-Jersey chick for fifteen minutes. Then, after checking in electronically (much faster than the older way of going through a book, but I did have a pair of the more un-age-challenged checker-iners), I checked out the ass of this geriatric dude with a cane (I much prefered Jersey and her flower print dress, but alas) who refused to sit down when an election judge offered him a seat: “I will not sit down!” he said, she responded with a laugh: “You’ll stand up and be counted!” and he said “Damn tootin’.”

I got this neat little “I Voted” sticker which I put on my shirt, and just transfered to my laptop. Class is almost ready to start and I wonder how many people forgot their papers … ? NOT ME.