Tuesday, November 04, 2008

"You’ve never seen so many people, so happy to stand in a line."

"You’ve never seen so many people, so happy to stand in a line."
— someone walking past the 75+ long line a few minutes before 6 am. I was the 33rd person in line and I arrived at 5:46am. And while approaching the quickly growing queue, almost everyone smiled and happily waited their turn.


via Love Puppy

I waited in line for over 2 hours, starting at 7:00 AM. There were easily over 200 people queued-up inside the elementary school gym ahead of me. The single voting machine we had for our district broke within the first hour of voting, so we cast our votes on paper. I heard an older gentleman say that he grew up in this neighborhood, and they'd never had such a turn out, thus the underestimation of the space needed to accomodate us.

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