A big turnout already

And so the day begins. I write this at 9 a.m., having just cast my vote (along with my wife, who did so for the first time), having waited about 25 minutes — the first time in my 29 years of voting that I've had to stand in line.

My neighbor, a Democratic poll worker, said she got to the Community Center, where four districts cast ballots, at 6 and the were about 40 people standing in line outside. She also said that about 150 people had voted in two and a half hours in District 5 — a huge turnout (some years, she said, there are 150 voters all day).

I think we're in for a long night.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

One thought on “A big turnout already”

  1. It scary going to vote, and disheartening. My fellow voters can\’t follow the road signs into the New Road center. Guess the \”KEEP RIGHT\” sign was just to small. (I had to skinny past them on the outbound!) Scary in that you have to be on the same road with someone too stupid to follow a simple sign.Disheartening in that these clowns are voting at all. If they are as informed about the candidates as they are about traffic signs, then we might have Bozo The Clown as president. (Oh, yeah, to us Libertarians, they are all Bozos!)More annoying was that a South Brunswick policeman was right behind them and ignored it. It would have been nice at least if he (it was a he) put on his lights and instructed the drivers to try to follow the signs. We could pretend that the signs mattered.Argh!

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