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Our polls closed at 7 p.m. but they still allowed people to vote if they were already in line at that time. I think the last voters finished a few minutes before 8 p.m.
 
To get the free Krispy Kreme the person had to show the "I voted" sticker. Some of the polling places here ran out of stickers, so there were some disappointed voters.
 
I didn't vote. I missed the registration deadline.
 
Reba said:
To get the free Krispy Kreme the person had to show the "I voted" sticker. Some of the polling places here ran out of stickers, so there were some disappointed voters.
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I got the sticker but we don't have any Krispy Kreme in my city. We have Dunkin Donut
 
whatdidyousay! said:
I got the sticker but we don't have any Krispy Kreme in my city. We have Dunkin Donut
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I know. DD is mostly Northern, and KK is mostly Southern. Too bad DD didn't do the same give away.
 
Reba said:
I know. DD is mostly Northern, and KK is mostly Southern. Too bad DD didn't do the same give away.
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DD is currently expanding to southern states.
 
Reba said:
I know. DD is mostly Northern, and KK is mostly Southern. Too bad DD didn't do the same give away.
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I think we had a KK in my city or something like that and it didn't do very good. Yeah DD would had made money b/c people like coffee with their DD.
 
Foxrac said:
DD is currently expanding to southern states.
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Yes, we have one here. KK is also expanding to the North. They are still minorities in those areas though.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
I think we had a KK in my city or something like that and it didn't do very good. Yeah DD would had made money b/c people like coffee with their DD.
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I prefer DD cake donuts. I don't like glazed donuts, which KK are. However, one of the KK shops here makes their donuts in the front of the shop where you can watch them make them and get one that was just made that minute. I might like something that fresh and still warm.
 
I did this morning, I was about to take a selfie but was advised it was illegal. Oh well, waited to do that at home - and NO donuts here! Whew!
 
Where do people vote at? in oregon you do it through the mail. I have never seen a voting place anywhere in salem. weird. I didn't vote, sorry but my parents didn't. they marked it on the paper and ran it to the mail box...nothing funny happened. :(
 
Reba said:
I prefer DD cake donuts. I don't like glazed donuts, which KK are. However, one of the KK shops here makes their donuts in the front of the shop where you can watch them make them and get one that was just made that minute. I might like something that fresh and still warm.
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Same here I don't like glazed donuts or muffins with a ton of sugar and frosting on them. I will want a muffin once in awhile but they will always have some kind sugary stuff on top of it .
 
Yes I voted. We had off and on rain showers but not too cold even though it was lower than the very high temps we had recently.

I am in a small Southern Illinois town where we have neither of the big donut chains so having a sticker did not have a food benefit. The only food around was that brought in by poll workers for them to nibble on during the very long day. Illinois runs from 6 am to 7pm with those in line at 7 pm getting to vote.

There were no problems that made a difference to me getting in and out smoothly and quickly. But there were some things that happened that could not be planned for before hand. Here is what one web site reported. http://www.wjbdradio.com/local-news/

Marion County Clerk Steve Fox says illness among election judges along with a number of new judges created some of the issues, while another issue was a problem in multiple counties.

The first problem surfaced at 6 am when there was no one to open the Haines Township polling place. With several election judges gone, there was further confusion on opening the polling place until Fox assigned one of his staff to stay in the precinct for the rest of the day.

Various polling places were plagued by the machine spitting out ballots that were under voted. Fox says the problem was created when judges tried to push the ballots back in too quickly and not give the machine a chance to read them. He believes undervotes on the constitutional amendment on highway projects was the biggest culprit. Fox says they worked through the problem.

The final problem showed up Tuesday night when it was learned the Judges in Centralia Precinct 5 and 8 had used the same computer encoder on the touch screen machine for voters in both precincts. To correct the problem, votes from that machine had to be counted by hand and split back into the correct precinct. That took three hours to complete after the rest of the votes were counted.

(I have lost count of how many precincts vote in the same large church Fellowship Hall - mine is one of them - which was probably a factor in this happening. I thought most of us used the paper ballots where you fill in the oval and then it is inserted in a machine twice in order for both sides to be read. It then stays in the machine after the second side.)

Fox reported voter turnout was not as high as he anticipated. 69-percent of the voters went to the polls. That was up from 65-percent in the last Presidential election, but well short of the 78 to 80-percent voter turnout Fox had projected.
 
Something has occurred to me about the ads. I know Reba talked about so many being in one of the battleground states. But the dose some of us received was from location in a different way. Those along a state border got two states worth.

I get my TV from St. Louis, MO even though I live in Illinois. With the border going down the river we got ads for both states. I have a feeling that those along other state borders got a similar double dose of ads.
 
DeafNerdMommy said:
Where do people vote at? in oregon you do it through the mail. I have never seen a voting place anywhere in salem. weird. I didn't vote, sorry but my parents didn't. they marked it on the paper and ran it to the mail box...nothing funny happened. :(
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I vote at a church near my condo , I use to vote at another church but when a new church was build near me my ward was moved to it. I also voted at the middle school
when I first moved here. Some schools are closed on election day b/c people vote there and it was felt it was safer for the students to give them the day off.
This time I voted at the city hall b/c we had early voting for the first time. That is weird you have no voting place, there has to be some schools or churches that could be used.
Of course it cost money to use a church maybe your city or town can't afford to do this.
 
I absolutely voted. I've voted in every election since I was old enough to vote - it's something all Americans should do. There are countries where this basic right, doesn't exist. Cherish it or lose it.

Laura
 
Lau2046 said:
I absolutely voted. I've voted in every election since I was old enough to vote - it's something all Americans should do. There are countries where this basic right, doesn't exist. Cherish it or lose it.

Laura
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You were never unfortunate enough to be ill on that day?
 
whatdidyousay! said:
I vote at a church near my condo , I use to vote at another church but when a new church was build near me my ward was moved to it. I also voted at the middle school
when I first moved here. Some schools are closed on election day b/c people vote there and it was felt it was safer for the students to give them the day off.
This time I voted at the city hall b/c we had early voting for the first time. That is weird you have no voting place, there has to be some schools or churches that could be used.
Of course it cost money to use a church maybe your city or town can't afford to do this.
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I know that all schools are opened and nothing on the day changes. I am pretty sure no churches were rented out, I would notice that, I live by a lot of churches. But I think that the state capital might have been a poll, but it looked dead all week long and on the 8th not a lot was happening downtown either. It is crazy actually.
 
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Here in Oregon, we vote by mail. No lines, no waiting. In fact, Kay and I voted several days ago so we could kick back and wait for the good news. :applause:
 
Jane B. said:
You were never unfortunate enough to be ill on that day?
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Incredibly no, I've voted in every election since I was eligible to do. Very proud to say that too....win or lose, I voted.
 
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