Sticking with our traditional election day discussions, this 4:00pm ET thread is specifically focused on what is happening in/around your neighborhood and precinct this election day 2022. Keep in mind, the West Coast is in lunchtime voting now.
The practical on-the-ground reports from you are generally an excellent gauge for the ‘sense’ of the state and federal election results.
If you are voting on election day today, what are you seeing in your area? How is turnout?
What is the general sense about the candidates in the local and state races that are important to you, your friends, your community, your neighborhood?
Are there any voting issues in your immediate area? If so, what kind?
We will post a few ‘ground report’ threads throughout the day for you to share the latest news and information from your area as well as your state.
Remember a key facet in modern election cycles is to ignore any national MSM coverage of exit polling or trends as national news is generally trying to shape opinion and thereby shape outcome.
Regardless of the narrative being promoted, ignore exit polling which has been shown to be heavily manipulated by media. Just vote.
So, what are you seeing out there?
Just got back from voting in our small community park rec room in a little city near Los Angeles. It wasn’t busy – there were just two of us. When I asked one of the poll watchers how the turnout was today, she said it was busier today than she’d EVER seen and she anticipates more heavy traffic starting at 5:00. I arrived in the middle of a heavy rainstorm, flash flood warning. They wouldn’t even look at my ID, of course. She asked if I had my ballot with me and I said yes but it goes in the shredder when I get home, in case the records showed I had already voted. She “voided” my paper ballot on the machine since I was voting in person. Ballot successfully counted. We picked up one unsecured WIFI nearby.
Same here. But the funny thing is when I voted for guy running against Gavin Newsom. The machine changed my vote 3x’s. I called the “technical-pole worker” over and proceeded to show him what the machine had done. He shrugged his shoulders and said to keep trying until it changed the vote back. Heavy turnout. And people wearing red.
You know… the propaganda machine sure is hiding the fact that Gruesom Newsom is running for re-election.
You’d think that would be a big thing, huh?
Me thinks, the machines have already selected him.
Same with that pendejo running for the US Senate.
Mark Finchem on the BBC
The UK’s BBC is covering “U.S. Elections 2022. First Polls Closing” and the 2 pro Dem hosts in the UK had just interviewed an angry Mark Finchem (GOP SoS Candidate of course) from Scottsdale Arizona.
He had to forcefully make his points as the BBC hosts were hostile hacks. He was explaining about the Maricopa ballot counting machines and how the “wrong ink cartridges” were installed on the 10 year old machines. He asked “how can they make an honest mistake like this after 10 years and all the past problems.”
When Mark hinted that this was deliberate or at worst gross incompetence, the BBC host said, “we heard these same accusations in 2020 but not one shred of evidence was ever shown or proven…” Then they quoted P Trump about the Dems “trying to steal another election even though not one shred of evidence about that was ever proved in court.” Mark pointed out that the courts refused to hear the cases because the issue is supposedly only a political one. (all quotes paraphrased)
This banter continued with Mark eloquently making his points about the voters that were once again disenfranchised from voting today and promising that the people that bungled or tampered with past and present elections will be held accountable if he is elected. He said there is no statute of limitations on election tampering.
The BBC female ended by saying all the machine problems have been fixed. The male host said earlier, “the 2020 election was a remarkable success.” This smells of collusion with the Democrats and their handlers. Their corrupt tentacles are long and far reaching.
F the UK and BBC
Well said. Succinct and to the point.
FM…
Many Brits probably think the same….
Neil Oliver certainly does. 🙂
Sideways. With barbed wire.
“There! I said it!!” –Mark Levin
Thank you for that. BBC is of course deep, deep state. Their argument here makes no sense at all. Competence is competence and incompetence is incompetence. If they bought a car wouldn’t they expect it to work on their first day of ownership when they turned the key??
Moreover, it appears that the machines did not work in Republican areas but did work in Democrat strongholds? Is that a coincidence? Well, it is mathematical and can be and surely will be analyzed to determine if it truly happened to a level of significance.
When they say “not one shred of evidence was ever shown or proven,” I say you haven’t been paying attention or you are lying. What about 2000Mules? What about the Arizona all day hearing at the State legislature where evidence was presented, sufficient evidence to establish probable cause and reasonable suspicion for further investigation which was later buried and dropped by that poseur Arizona attorney general Mark Brnovich.
Attorney General Brnovich lost his bid for U.S. Senate in the Republican primary due to his incompetence and dropping the ball on the investigation of the 2020 election in Arizona.
Looks like the BBC didn’t really do their homework but this is no surprise when you are just touting the approved narrative and then running out to the pub to get sloshed which is what they do in London.
I think these BBC hosts are “pretending not to know things” (SD) and also peddling scripted Democrat propaganda that they personally support. Mark was impressive to me so I sure hope he wins.
Thanks for sharing that – praying for Finchem and appreciate your reporting 😉👍
Just checked with a good friend who is a pool worker in this small county in eastern NC. I vote Saturday and was #5518 and he waited until today. Typically 500 would vote on Election Day and today saw 675. Just one of several precincts in our county. Very high for mid-terms.
Poll…
pool was better.
Southern precinct in Phoenix AZ (Maricopa County), pretty heavily blue. Polls were busy at 4:45 my time but without a waiting line. Plenty of volunteers keeping it humming, folks were scrupulous about the rules. While I was voting, one of the several recording machines had a paper feed jam, and it sounded like another person had been sloppy with ovals, but at least 50 people (including myself) had no issues at all. Folks were pleasant and traffic in the lot wasn’t bad at either end. Nothing struck me as unusual or suspicious.
The Cave Creek, Arizona polling place that was shut down early this morning for broken tabulators/printers is up and running. Just drove past at 4:20 pm. The parking lot was packed and there was a line around the building. Festive atmosphere!
This is a Republican area and very MAGA. Passed a pick-up with “F—Biden ” (spelled out) flag waving and another with a “Let’s Go Brandon” flag. A young man of 20 or so was standing on the street corner of Carefree Highway and Cave Creek Road with a red MAGA hat waving a huge yellow “Don’t Tread on Me” flag.
I hope the early results are no indication of the final Georgia results.
Just voted in downstate Illinois. They could save everyone some ink by just having one oval called “foregone conclusion”.
Oh well, nights like this are when I look forward to feeling happy for what the folks in a lot of other states are likely going to be experiencing.
Polling place is in the school gym in my back yard. Probably more voters today than in 2016 or 2020.
(Hamilton County, OH….usually around 55D/45R)
Although the polls closed about 30 minutes ago, a lot of local newspapers have already called it in favor of Tim Scott, R-S.C. (no surprises there)
Small town SE NH, one hour north of Boston, Mass. As of 5pm, just over 2,000 ballots cast out of 3,200 registered voters. Formally very conservative town has been “massed up” in past decade now 50/50 split, due to massholes fleeing the hell hole they voted for in Massachusetts. Held signs with the local repubs for an hour . Cautiously hopeful, but you can see the hatred in the lefties faces as they walk by. Glad I give them heartburn
They live on hate, as their Master does.
I live in central CT in a small town that has voted Republican since 2013. My husband and I voted at 8:30 A.M. and there were already 800 people who had voted, which for a town of 12,000 is a lot. We had our ID’s check and were in and out with no problem. Earlier, a friend said that computers were down, but they were up when we went and I was told that the computers were only down for a little while. The person who was near the ballot scanner was also the one handing out the “I Voted Today” stickers. She must have gotten some complaints because she said that the counter was at 300 when the scanner stopped. When the scanner came back on and the ballots were fed through by hand, the number went up to 500. “So all the balloted were counted.”
After that, my husband and I drove 45 minutes east to Manchester, CT to hold signs at the polls for a friend who was running for state rep. We were there from 10:00 – 4:30. I will say that it was depressing. We were 3o feet away from the Dem sign holders. Voters had to “walk the guantlet” between the R’s and D’s. More people spoke to the D’s, than us. I had a very sinking feeling for my friend. I’m praying that I am wrong.
What was also discouraging is how many people I saw driving up to the polls with masks on, then walking the gauntlet with mask on. The spirit of fear is alive and well in CT. 🙁
Brainwashed they are – sad indeed 😞 wishing your friend a big W regardless of the mask wearers your witnessed. I have always loved Manchester but it is a very lib area – that independent book store in town is over-the-top progressive.
Hmmm…. I didn’t see a single person wearing a mask… UCI polling station. But this is The OC, not LA County.
Well, folks, I just saw the Democrats engage in vote fraud and disenfranchisement of registered Republicans even in Maryland. I went to vote at 6:30 this evening in Frederick, MD (polls close here at 8:00). I moved to Frederick in June 2021, got my Maryland drivers license in early August 2021, and registered to vote when I got the license. Because I wanted to vote in primary elections, I registered Republican. A couple of weeks ago, the Frederick County Board of Elections sent me the official Specimen Ballot for the November 8 elections. It informed me of where my polling place is, listed my Voter ID number, and showed my full name and address. So the Board of Elections has me listed. But when I got to my polling place, the staff first said they could not find me in the system, and then said the system showed my registration as canceled, with some “suggestion” that I had moved out of the state. I did not do that, and have lived continuously and paid rent continuously since June 2021 at my current address, the one shown on the election notice sent me by the Board of Elections. However, I was told the only way I could vote was to cast a provision ballot, and that doing so would involve a wait of possibly multiple hours. Since I did not have that kind of time, and am realistic enough to know that my Republican vote is extremely unlikely to make any difference here, I left. I have been voting since 1966, and have never encountered anything this infuriating. I don’t think it is rocket science to figure out that the reason I was listed as “canceled” is that I was listed as “registered Republican.” Bottom line: the Democratic party is a criminal conspiracy. Always. Everywhere.
I’m sorry you weren’t able to vote.
The AP called the MD Governor race with at 825 with polls closing at 8. The Dem had 473 votes, The R had 702 votes. Thats it. and they called it for the D.
Ass. Press. Typical.
We stopped at the drop box near our home at around 9am and the box was so full of ballots that I had to use our ballots to push a couple of other ballots on in that had not gone down. The box was so full that the ballots only fell a few inches down. These boxes are about the size of traditional USPS mailboxes, although they have much smaller openings to slide the ballot in. Based on that and the traffic jam trying to get in to a voting place at the Library nearby, I think turnout is very solid down here in the Southern Colorado Precincts where most of us are pretty Conservative. I hope everyone is noticing the heavy turnout for a midterm election.
Update: I received an e-mail telling me that my ballot was counted at 7am today. I notice that ther are still probably 5,000 uncounted ballots in Pueblo County, I don’t know why they are uncounted. But each new chunk of ballots they finally report show nice gains for Lauren Boebert. She now trails by only about 2,000 votes. I think she has a chance, but she will need at least 60% of all the remaining votes to catch up. Not a tall order if those votes are coming from the Pueblo West area and most points west of there in her District. The carpetbag Senator Bennett has sneaked in under the radar again and nothing will help O’Dea, who was a lousy candidate for the Repugs.
I voted this morning in Maricopa County, at City Hall in my town. Excellent ID verification system, quick ballot printing, LOADS of people there to vote but NO waiting to speak of. Fed my ballot into the counter and cha-ching it got read and counted. I was very pleased. Not that I don’t think the opposition will steal whatever races they want but…..I did my part.
After 8am Mass, we made a b-line to our Village polling facility. Steady line of ppl. We were #124 & #125 in a Village of 2K.
Voted shortly after 4 pm, western Racine County in SE Wisconsin, one of the most conservative areas in the state. Turnout is yuge. Met friends for a cocktail and early dinner afterwards, drove by the polling place 2 hours later, still packed. All went well, have lived and voted in the same township since 1999, haven’t seen turnout like this since 2012.
Not a fan of the electronic poll books that they introduced for the primaries this year; the poll workers don’t like them either.
Yesterday I read through all my election materials. Our state, WA, is mail-in voting only, and has been since 2012. As I was reading the materials, it said “Accessible voting machine from 8AM to 8PM.” I went to the courthouse at 11 this morning. My county is small but there was no one there. I asked about the voting machines and they said we don’t have those. I had the material with me and read from it. I actually spoke to our county election auditor (who coincidentally is running un-opposed in today’s election). She said the voting machines were for blind or handicapped voters only. I said, ‘accessible’ means to have access to–to have available–there is no mention or any modifiers to the word accessible. I got a stony-eyed stare and a repeat of who could use the machines. I then requested that she receive my vote in person and register it. I was told that was impossible–after, that is, a look of complete stupefaction as if I were in a bakery asking for a prime rib. I pressed her on that as well and she said she couldn’t possibly spare the time as she was too busy getting ballots for everyone. Of course, without a person in sight, it was hard to imagine who those people needing ballots might possibly be. The only thing I could do with my vote was to place it in the ‘drop box.’ I was and remain furious. I will be investigating these actions first with the state’s legal codes and then with my various legislators and whatever government offices I can. Needless to say, I wrote in a candidate for her office. But it seemed quite clear to me that in my state any pretense to a fair and open election has been dropped.
I vote in a mail-in ballot state, too. I place my ballot at the drop box located at the Sheriffs office in my County. The Sheriff is the one elected guy who never wants to get caught cheating in my County. Also, Colorado sends me an e-mail to let me know they got my ballot and that it has been counted. Small comfort for me, but I haven’t gotten stonewalled on the voting booth, which is available for anyone who prefers to vote that way. Cheer up, we are killing them, so far. What more can we do anyway?
The explanation that the few voting machines are for the disabled is in your “Voter’s Guide”, if you had bothered to read it.
You have no case, as they say on the TV judge shows.
Voted in suburban Waukesha County WI. Steady stream of people with short lines to get a ballot, a booth & submit the ballot.
No voting anomalies to report but I’m praying for Adam Steen to take Robin Vos down in his write in campaign.
We used this website as a guide to vote in person today in CA
Our highest ratings go to candidates who will defend freedom, stand for free enterprise, or have a conservative worldview based on their ability to stand firm against efforts to increase taxes, size of government, weaken law and order, and crush individual freedom. Here is our rating system:
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Unfortunately there is stormy weather here tonight. We got a flash flood warming alert on our phones which is not necessary and as far as Im concerned it was done to discourage people from voting. (climate change narratives)
The masked people guarding access to the vote machines all asked us if we were there to vote in person. Not sure why because what other reason would I be there for.
They didn’t ask for id this time. My buddy been in his house 20 years and voting 6 blocks from his house the whole time, this morning they sent him somewhere else a few miles away
Oh no, I hope that wasn’t a problem for him.
We voted in Las Vegas at around 4 pm. It was raining and the line was around 125 people long. No glitches to report. Voted straight Republican. Some people were dropping off their mailed ballot. I handed my unopened, mailed ballot to the clerk and she opened it up and defaced it so that it couldn’t be used.
Here’s the two surprising things I noticed at my precinct: the large numbers of 30’s and under voters. And the large number of people who didn’t bother to vote. The poll books had page after page after page of voters who hadn’t voted.
So, it will be interesting to see my county’s turnout and who got the votes.
If you can say, where do you live, Belle?
It’s 5:30PM in SoCal now.
We’ve had 1.3 inches of rain, most of it overnight and after 2PM or so.
I want a refund on my mortgage… our home prices are predicated on NOT having to deal with Seattle like weather. Yikes!
Oh, we did go vote, not too many people around. Around our lunch hour. UCI voting place.
Irvine used to be lovely. Eh, 1.3 inches, if it isn’t blowing sideways and causing floods, it isn’t Florida… You’ll live.
#1 I have already voted 100% Republican (even the RINOs). I have posted here that we need to try and rectify this dismal situation by the most peaceful means available, the ballot box.
#2 That said, I really don’t believe that we are going to vote ourselves out of this situation. From what I am reading and hearing, it already sounds like there is widespread cheating going on.
We most direly need for Republican governors to promote states’ rights, even if it means blocking and arresting Feds.
That is the path to regain our God given rights.
Joust got off working the polls a short while ago and in the precinct I work here in SC the turnout was pretty heavy. This is a pretty reliably Republican area so I don’t expect any surprise. Senator Tim Scott and Representative William Timmons, squishy conservatives that they are, should be elected safely. Guvnuh Henry “Foghorn” McMaster should be safe, though the position of governor in our state is akin to being king of England. No real power.
I voted later than intended, I showed up about 1.25 hours before the polls closed. Very long line of young people who were oddly rude to me when I asked where the end of the line was. Fortunately a poll worker came to my aid, asked me if I’m registered (I was) and took me right into the voting room. The line was for people doing same-day registration. All students at the local university as far as I could tell. There must have been 300 of them. They had plenty of time to register in advance but waited until election evening. And you know that’s not where their stupid ends, probably all will vote straight Dem on their ballots. I know once in line they can stay but I hope a bunch of them bailed.
I had reviewed my sample ballot in advance so it took maybe 2 minutes to vote and double-check. No problems with the scanner. Very helpful people working the room. In all a good experience.
One more note: as I have done since November 2008, I voted all-Republican. There was one office that had a single Dem candidate and nobody opposing. I asked a poll worker if it was OK to leave one blank and he said yes, so that’s what I did.
What college town are you in? BTW I have voted in the exact same precinct for 39 years … and see the SAME neighbors year in and year out. EXCEPT! … in 2008. Suddenly my precinct was overrun by 20yo’s. Dozens and dozens of them coming in groups. I was fascinated by this and watched their movements. None of them got into cars like every other suburban voter … but instead … they were all walking from the local BART station which is in walking distance of my precinct. All BARTing in from UC Berkeley to vote for Obama. They probably had already voted in Berkeley
Classic Demonic trick: they’ve been bussing people around to vote in other precincts for over a century.
I live in the Peoples Republic of Maryland. The line for voting was lighter than other years. I hope this means that the liberals are dispirited and stay home.
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I did my part in Chicago voting straight Republican but Chicago could still be the deciding factor as usual. The process was smooth and professional. Filled out my two ballots with the Sharpie. I fed the ballots in the machine myself and watched the screen confirm both of them as being accepted.
My friend and I voted today in Gilbert, Az., a southeastern suburb of Phoenix. This is a formerly deep red area, but lots on new people here…. We left the house at 10:15, arriving at the poll 10 minutes later. We left the polling place at 3pm! Long line outside when we arrived, and when we got in and filled out our ballots, the machine spit them out.
There were 2 machines, only one was working when we got there. The female poll workers apologized and explained we could spoil our ballot, and #1. try again (long ballot, both sides), and try feeding it into the machine again. that’s another half hour, and what if it just spits it out again? #2. Put your ballot in a “secure box” that will be transported to the counting center and then counted. #3 Use the handicapped screen that spits out a finished ballot and the you feed that into the only machine, these handicapped ballot have a 0% fail rate and gets counted with the voting day ballots. We chose this one and it went smoothly, except for the 90 minute wait. We got to sit down for that one!
The only “working machine” spit most ballots out. There were many Lake voters in line and we were all chatting away, and I’m sure others heard us complaining how Katie Hobbs couldn’t even run an election. I noticed the younger, clean cut man in front of me voted democrat (he was holding it for anyone to see). The only machine accepted his ballot just fine! I said as he passed by “How did you get so lucky?!”, smiling at him, and he said “Because I’m a democrat!!!. We just moved on. He seemed a little angry.
Quite a few people put there ballots in the “secure box”, because they couldn’t wait. Sad.
There’s just no way this was just a mistake. The Carter Center (funded by Open Society) just inspected all our equipment, and said it was good to go!!
The people 60+ and over, dug our heels in and we were there for over 4 I/2 hours. We need the whole Republican slate to win, so we can clean up this state!! County reorder and County board of supervisors are next to go!
Our husbands are both working the poll today. They started at 5:30, and will come home when they are finished packing everything up tonite. I am watching RAV’s coverage, and The Republicans are in court right now arguing to keep the polls open for 3 more hours or up to 10pm. (our husbands will be exhausted).The Kelly campaign is saying there is no issue as everything is fixed, but it’s not!! I would hope a judge would not want to be known for disenfranchising Arizona voters!!
The turn out was larger than I’ve seen for 3 elections here. Bigger than 2020 it seemed, but the line moving so slowly could be deceiving
.Pray they aren’t allowed to steal it! We have worked so hard to get to here with a dream ticket!
By the way, it was fun waiting in line, met many wonderful people.
Great turnout at Precinct 527 in Sarasota County where around 1,400 votes were cast today which was close to 20% of registered voters in the precinct on election day.
My wife is from a small town in the Detroit Metro area. One of their polling places is the local high school. It just so happens that they have scheduled a “professional development day” for all teachers in the district TODAY. School parking for voters is all taken.
Chattanooga: Polling site here in the burbs had about 2 dozen voters and nearly as many poll workers. Good turnout for a midterm election.
Voters here are mostly conservative, but have been TOO complacent: but I think all the “Family-Friendly Drag Queen” perv shows around town in October may have poked some of them awake. Sure hope so.
Chattanooga is one of 2 cities in the US targeted as the beta-testing grounds for the Internet of Things, I mean, for digital slavery. Also, the Perverts gifted us with an extra homo celebration week in October, long after Pervert Pride month was over.
Why us? Because we’re the Buckle of the Bible Belt, and you know how the Satanics feel about Christians.
Just lost a state house race. I’m in total shock. Voting was only 70% of what it was two years ago. Here in the northland of Kansas City, the red wave stayed home.
I don’t think the red wave stayed home. I think the State of Florida was probably the truth of what the rest of the country actually was but without voter fraud. JMHO…
It was a very sloppy operation when I voted today in a large Illinois suburb. I chose to have a paper ballot vs electronic. The guy handed me the two long pages to be completed. As I started to make my way to the booth to complete my ballot I immediately noticed that one full page was already filled in! It looked to be all Democratic candidates that were chosen. I immediately went back to the same worker at the same table and showed him that what he handed me was already pre-filled. He called over someone who appeared to be a supervisor, but I wasn’t sure. He stated that “someone” had given me a ballot that had an error and had been returned by another voter. I called the local Republican Committee office and relayed this experience. I was told that if a voter states that they made a mistake on their ballot that the worker should X out the whole page and place it in an envelope marked “spoiled”. Not only had this not been done, but the “spoiled” ballot was just sitting there among the blank ones that are given to voters. Very flimsy operation, ripe for election fraud.
All quiet on the Hoosier front. RINO young re-elected, Rs winning up and down. DK about Gary.
I hate to spoil the party folks, but we are looking at the same mess tomorrow that we had yesterday. I guess we are just outnumbered by the Collective. Maybe most people just want to be told what to do every day. I hope so, because they will get their wish. I believe God gave us our Constitution, but I guess that even God hasn’t figured out how to fix stupid. Or, maybe He has.