Voted, bitches.

nice shot!

I just wish I had a better camera on my phone but they'd have probably noticed my DSLR...

This looks like a really old school machine too no?

yeah. We still use the (very, very) old fashioned machines here. No electronic voting for us. Thank goodness.

How do you read the situation Belf? Whodo you think is going to take it?

Won't know til it's over. biggest worry is people will simply assume they don't *have* to vote because the poll margins have been so wide.

Long as people go out there and get it done, hopefully it will be a slightly better day tomorrow.

Lots of people are saying, wait for the fat lady to sing. It's a hell of a thing to predict.

We've learned with the last two elections not to predict anything.

Sadly, we learned it the hard way.

It ain't over til it's over. And unless it's a HUGE, MONSTEROUS mandate, it won't be over for several weeks, until *every* absentee ballot is counted and all disputed counties are recounted.

is that a "hand cranked" voting machine? how completely, totally awesome.

Yep. The ones we use are slightly different aesthetically, but basically they're like this:



You go into the booth and pull the curtain behind you. You then take the big lever and pull it all the way to the right. It makes a satisfying noise. You then, by hand, flip the toggle switches indicating who you want to vote for. When you're finished, you pull the big lever again, all the way to the left. It makes another satisfying noise, ending with a CLUNK. You then exit the voting booth and go on with your life.

That is exactly how the machines in upstate NY look. I'm off to the polling place soon. I moved a few weeks ago and forgot my new voter card. Dumb.

WoW, that thing looks like it came from Bedrock

If the Republicans steal this election I'm starting a campaign for the rest of the world to nuke the USA. Or at least the red parts. It's really the only logical course of action.

Is there an election going on then? : )

If teh republicans take it, I think there may be a riot

there better be.

I predict rioting either way.

As I understand from the news we get back here,... there are already many difficulties with the voting machines,...

What's new :)

Electronic voting machines have problems. That's why we don't use them here. We were supposed to switch and then it wsa decided that the machines were far too unreliable for NYC. We kept the old ones.

Won't matter here anyway. If you count NYC votes by themselves the landslide is going to be so massive, it's going to make the ground shake.

We don't like McCain/Palin here.

Can't say I like Obama nor McCain.

Welcome to politics.

Is Michael Moore's plant up for president as well?

Couldn't say. I find Michael Moore to be both uninteresting and irrelevant so whatever he does is of no interest to me.

Well, who ever get elected. I am sure he will do her best to screw over the rest of the world to benefit from it.

Again, welcome to politics.

yowzer. good vote.

rest of us are all watching the us. and from here it looks like a new day is coming.

thank god.

am off to the local american election watch central. taking champagne because I know the map is about to change.

conflicted cynic, now faced with hope. dare I hope for a new day?

Too early too call, and Im far too much of a cynic. It's not that Im an Obama fan. I just really, really, *REALLY* detest Palin on a level that's completely visceral.

oh yes. it's going to be interesting. am fastening my seatbelt, but from canadian reporting, it sounds like a huge Obama win. HUGE.

Palin is perfect. she was just the perfect candidate for a guy with heart problems. If having her as vp doesn't scare people, nothing will.

tina fey and snl thank her for reviving their show.

The fact that even despite all that 40% of the country still want to vote for them is absolutely terrifying. It's difficult to know what it is the republicans would have to do for them to change their minds. Something involving a swimming pool full of foetuses, I'm guessing.

I would love for it to be a huge Obama victory (because to me it would be the bitchslap I'd love to see happen to the neocons) but after the last two elections I know enough to stfu until it's really, really over.

Rich- you get no argument from me. Since I am friends with a few pretty staunch republicans, I have a good idea.

(I should mention Im not a democrat myself, but I'm not a republican either. I get hated by both sides pretty equally.)

I think I'd feel the same way about SP if I were american - from here she's just unbelievable

I dont have words to describe my dislike for her, It's truly visceral. I didn't think the neocons could field a candidate I disliked more than the current chimp in charge.

I was wrong.

Then congratulations Mr.president Obama! :)

stayed up til 4.30am to watch the results come in. We spent the evening drinking coffee and flicking around various news channels. Fox was hilarious. Is that a real news channel? Unbelievable. Eventually settled on the beeb to watch a slightly more realistic reflection on how the American public were voting. Thankfully.

I prefer to think of it as a comedy network. It just doesn't know it.

Well, good thing.
Bush and Palin are out, Obama is in. Congrats.
There's a lot of hope around him.
In the US but around the world.
He is facing a huge challenge.
We'll see what happens.

:)

true... but it's a good start