Comments on: Eyes on the Street: Election Day 2008

By: Ace

Ace — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:18:02 +0000

They took away my name and gave me a number too! I refused to vote via affidavit as well. This was before work. From work I called the board of elections and was told to draw a line through the number, print my name and then sign as usual. I told the poll workers this, along with the name of the person at Adams street, and in the evening I was allowed to vote via machine.

By: marty

marty — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:57:30 +0000

In this CNN blog by Christianne Amanpour, she writes these glorious words, about her experience this morning in New York: “As I rode my son to school by bike”!!!
Thats a bit of election coverage I can actually stomach!
Here’s the article:
http://inthefield.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/04/this-election-will-change-the-world/

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:50:01 +0000

I was proud to vote against the anti-congestion-pricing hack Hakeem Jeffries for Assembly, even though it won’t do any good.

By: JF

JF — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:33:43 +0000

I also voted against my incumbent Democratic assembly member who couldn’t take a stand for congestion pricing. But I couldn’t bring myself to vote for the incumbent Democratic state senator who was for pricing but later chickened out.

By: Larry Littlefield

Larry Littlefield — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:10:37 +0000

I voted against all the incumbents at the state level. Again. They’ve already done enough damage that it probably doesn’t matter, but there is no point in changing anything now.

I threw on some sweats and walked down the block at a minute to 6 am, as usual. I’m generally one of the first three people there. This time the line was around the corner, and I didn’t get out until 6:37 am.

By: Davis

Davis — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:01:25 +0000

Likewise. I voted for the Republicans running against Joan Millman and Velmanette Montgomery.

By: Mark Walker

Mark Walker — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:17:59 +0000

I cast my first congestion-pricing protest vote, or perhaps I should say abstention. I pulled the lever for every Democratic candidate except for my assemblyman, O’Donnell (there was no alternative candidate to vote for). Of course, thanks to Shelly, he never actually voted against CP. But he sure didn’t get out front and beat the drum for it. That’s what I require of my elected officials.

By: slinkp

slinkp — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:49:38 +0000

Prospect Heights (underhill + st. marks) had lines over 1 hour when my wife went at 7 AM and again when I went at 10 AM… presumably all day.

A pair of “republican observer”s (according to name tags) tried to prevent my wife from voting via lever machine, due to a clerical error in the book – someone had written a number in her reference signature box. They wanted her to cast a provisional ballot. She raised a stink for 10 minutes before they let her use the machine. She then called the board of elections to complain and they said she should not have been told to use a provisional ballot.

I had no problems from the one (democrat) observer at the table when I signed in.