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?
Suburban Minnesota: There were steady numbers through the polling place all afternoon, must be well over 2018 numbers, and now it is looking downright busy.
Media says that early voting and mail-in voting are much, much lower than in 2020, closer to 2018 levels.
Yep.
The Virginia Project
@ProjectVirginia
There are legions of Democrat voters pulling the GOP lever this year and almost nothing in the reverse direction. The numbers are going to be even worse for Dems than the raw turnout indicates
https://mobile.twitter.com/ProjectVirginia/status/1590111531853021187?cxt=HHwWhoDQle6Am5EsAAAA
Went to vote after work. No wait, no line, relaxed poll workers. When we arrived a woman wearing a shirt that said Democrat approached us, was polite, offered us literature. Another lady came up to us “Do you know who you’re voting for?” I replied “Yes” and then said “I’m wearing red!” She laughed.
Eastern NC
I’m also in Eastern NC and the same thing happened to me. The people outside with information were very polite. A lady with a democrat shirt on asked if I’d like any information. Several people walking ahead of me refused information from the lady. I asked her if she felt rejected. She said no, it’s a free country.
Aaaahhhh…. ENC knows what’s up!
Wife and I voted at 10:30 am, Collier County, Precinct 257, Naples, FL. Half dozen Republicans near the parking lot, bumped into Alfie Oakes. Walked right in, no wait, picture ID required, signature on computer gadget required but can’t say I could vouch that it was mine but was compared to my photo ID, showed a receipt with ballot # that matched the ballot # I was given. No wait. In and out in 10 minutes.
I am reading a lot of comments from the East Coast and some flyover regions…
What are we hearing from Alaska or Hawaii?
Anybody know?
I found this one link for Alaska, trying to avoid MSM…but I guess we have a while to wait…
https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/politics/election-results/
In Mesa AZ there were a lot of people. Way more than any other time I have seen. But here is what is bad. I was standing in line to insert my ballot into the machine. About 11 people in front of me. 7-8 them were rejected and the poll worker told them to put it in the “hand count” bin. I’m telling you. It is a scam they are running. I have no doubt whatsoever.
Hello, neighbor.
Add in they provided a pentel felt tip marker.. and left them on ballot tables.
Sundance posted the tweets from the Attorney that Lake and Republicans have hired to oversee this planned debacle, and she said they have planned for this. She said they have people in place who will watch that container, and then escort that container to where it will be counted, and then wait with that container. That it will never be out of eye-shot.
Those will all go into adjudication. Which means the shredder for Republican votes.
Printing error created ballot reading problem in new dominion machines.
Looks like the long lines and problems may have suppressed turnouts numbers needed to win.
Per Just the News
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/voting-machine-problems-arise-20-polling-locations-arizona-maricopa?utm_source=breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
“…In both Arizona and Pennsylvania, counties have experienced difficulties with either ballot tabulator machines or not having enough paper for ballots.
At least 20% of the polling stations on Tuesday in Arizona’s Maricopa County have problems, according election officials.”
Coincidence? Nah
A tweet from Kari…11:33/Nov 8,2022
“We have the best election integrity lawyer in the country.
Stay in line and Vote.
We’ll take care of the rest”
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Tweet from Harmeet K Dhillon…10:35/November 8,2022…
“Arizona voters – please be aware that there are dozens of Republican can lawyers monitoring their tabulating situation in Maricopa County (and all AZ Counties), speaking with the county lawyers, and ensuring that votes WILL count. Please do your part and VOTE!! We have your back!
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I didn’t think for one second they’d be complacent during this campaign.
Thank goodness.
Kari Lake is a godsend 🙏❤
She is, Stephanie. She is one smart cookie. My gosh, nothing gets past her.
That is reassuring.
I’m in a suburb of Chicago in Cook County. We brought our own pens because we knew the following was going to happen.
There were sharpies and a couple of pens on the table. The election worker tried to give a sharpie to my wife and she said, “No thank you, they bleed through. I’ll take the pen.”
He said, “Yes they do (bleed through) but that’s ok” and he proceeded to give her the sharpie. She asked for the pen again and he said, “These work better.” Note: it’s a two sided ballot.
So my wife took the sharpie, went to the voting booth and used the pen she brought with her.
They don’t call it Crook County for nothing! (Hat tip bkrg2)
I will give Will County credit…there was none of that BS in my precinct.
I’m running for county board, here in Bolingbrook. Things seem smooth but our early viting was alot higher than usual.
Good luck!
Voting! Sorry!
Am in the heart of the beast. They gave us black ball point pens. No sharpies to be seen.
About @1000, there were 8 voting booths, two others were there.
Polling place was my old HS. They had the kiddies off today.
Filled out A Voter form, No voter ID required only voter signature. Was asked if the displayed image was my signature. Considering that he was looking a the screen and my paper copy🤔🤔🤔
Received my two ballots, 3.5 pages of 3 columns. Cook County couldn’t send the 2nd half of the property taxes due in August. There was a Forest Preserve raise, hope that it will be defeated?🤔
The Tabulator, took the first ballot OK, the next had a paper jam, Than it went through, I am the one that entered both ballots in.
However, believe that the tabulator had some overrides set. Left some judges blank, Especially those with only one choice. Nothing was kicked out. So not totally sure. Left @1040, there were ten people attempting to vote in the HS bandroom.
I was wondering about that too. Used to be if you didn’t vote a race it would kick out and you had to state “yes, I left some blank.” That didn’t happen this time and it just deposited the ballot into the locked bin after being fed through the reader.
St. Louis Election Board building (Tucker & Olive downtown)….I’ve been voting at this location in recent years. Today I go there and they tell me they’re not accepting any votes there today (Election Day). I asked one of the many employees there why that was and he told me they have been accepting early voting there in recent weeks, but NO voting today. I just said, WHAT?…that makes no sense. I saw others who came there to vote also being sent away.
I know in my county some voting places are open for early voting and not voting day voting. There’s a way to find out ahead of time. On voting day, everyone must vote in the designated place for their precinct. The early voting places are sometimes in undesignated places, so, they can not open for voting day. It is confusing, but, not nefarious.
Maybe I and others I saw turned away, didn’t get the memo…thanks Lolly.
That’s just crazy. I have never heard of that! Are you able to vote somewhere? Who ever started this mail in and early voting crap needs to be slapped into next week.
There is ALWAYS a place for them to vote. Brevard just opens more polling places to accommodate early voters. These polling places are not the precinct’s voting places on voting day. It’s an option to mail-in ballots which must be requested.
My precinct in eastern NC does that. Early voting always somewhere different from the voting day location. But they surely should have informed the voters at least when they are being turned away?
Yes, they should. There was an on-line site that let me check whether my precinct voting place was open today. It said yes and was quick. I usually do not check. But, with Nicole aiming at us between wobbles, I was not sure. Nicole slowed a bit so we are getting a few hours of a breather in our preps.
Bronxville, NY
Walking distance to where Brandon spoke Sunday night. It was mostly college kids then the media platforms then the walk ins behind. Outdoors About 1000, not a particularly good turnout. I’m poll working today – steady older crowd, 635 have voted by 5:45pm. Turnout hi for a midterm due to Gov race. People here are very guarded as to their political views. Very hard to read.
Village leans conservative.
I can’t imagine the courage it would take to reveal you’re MAGA in NYC! Could potentially be risking your life at the hands of a tolerant liberal crowd!
My brother in law is up there. I have become his go-to person for positive voting information. LOL He did 2 tours in Nam in a helicopter.
poll watcher in Forsyth County, GA, a traditionally solid red area. As a poll watcher I was not allowed to talk to anyone, so I juts don’t know what to predict. The area has lately been infiltrated by newcomers unfortunately. There was a trickle all day; by 3 pm when I did my last machine count, there were 1160 people who had come through. There are about 10000 voters in my precinct and according to the poll manager, about 5000 had voted during early vote. I don’t know what to think about these numbers. We did have some solid candidates for state senate and state and federal house, but as you know, our senator and governor candidates are not awesome.
I voted early in Forsyth County because I’m currently in Canada.
If you have 10K registered voters and your results show a total of 6660 voted, I’d say that was a darned good voter turnout, presuming all the ballots are valid. Thanks for sharing your experience as a poll watcher.
#s sound pretty high for a midterm election……general election typically have 60-65% turnout
Moved to a more c9nservative neighborhood recently. Expected an even more professional polling station.
Instead the man who checked me in took my ID scanned the back and handed it back to me. I asked if he intended to varify the signature.
He laughed and said “that law is so stupid, I’m not a signature specialist”. I replied that one doesn’t have to be a expert to recognize a blaring difference.
I was rather shocked.
My old precint held the card in front of them and didn’t return the card until I had finished signing and they did a few glances from me to the ID and matched up the signatures on file. I remember almost breaking out in a sweat wondering if I signed the same way it showed on my ID; Then feeling rather please with myself for havin my affairs in order.
But today I found myself wanting someone to report to.
“You’re not a signature expert,” is a talking point told to democrat poll workers.
Oh yes, and instead of asking me to varify my street address (as I used to do at my old precinct) he asked if I still lived at ___ street. What’s the point of the yes or no question?
I thought that was weird this time too. Usually they just want verification.
Central Illinois Trump Country precinct, massive turnout. Bigger than presidential- Large crowds ALL day. Praying the madness will finally end in IL.
Same here friend! Went at 11am in Macon County and the line was out the door… never seen it that busy. This area is usually red so I’m praying that’s a good sign.
I am praying all you down staters, can get Bailey across the finish line, we are trying up here. Hoping to cancel Duckworth, too!
I am in a conservative suburb in the Iowa 3rd congressional district. Hoping to finally bounce Cindy Axne out of office. I drove by our polling place this morning and it was quite busy. My husband voted mid-afternoon, and it was busy, but we didn’t have to wait.
Voted around 1pm at Wissahickan HS in Pa. Fast vote and the Oz table said we are looking good. Where I work people voting 10-1 for OZ…
Im out of town so had to vote early and wanted to share my experience
We recently moved from Crook County (Chicago metro) to DuPage County (west of Chiraq)
The procedural differences were stunning:
1 checked my signature by two judges
2 asked me to confirm address
3 paper ballots
4 marked with ballpoint pen
5 fed into scanner that verified all votes tabulated
In Crook county, the first 4 things never happened.
However #5 was done with a little credit card reader thing. I am fairly certain it fed my data into a computer that determined whether to delete my vote or change to D. Regardless the data is likely sent to China
Only similarity is the people working the polls were all friendly and helpful. I appreciate them doing this thankless job
WE are the ones who gave it away and deserve to lose it if we are to dumbfounded to stand up.
The family voted not long after the polls opened at 8:00 a.m. Small but growing Nebraska town just outside of Omaha, and it wasn’t a mad rush, but about ten people were ahead of us in line, and others were already voting.
People just kept coming and going fairly steadily. We have paper ballots which are put into a lock box (from a hard plastic sleeve, so the official cannot read anything).
Red Oklahoma, where our governor is at risk. Waited in line for an hour, at 10:30 in the morning! Too few poll workers and election people did not expect the turnout. From neighbor reports, line was that long since the polls opened. Maybe it’s just my precinct, but people are really showing up here.
Or the elections board consolidated precincts so that in red areas it would take longer to vote.
Voter suppression!!
Eastern NC small town. 10:30 AM, waited in line 1 hr. mostly outside. Heard report from someone at same polling site, wait was 1-1/2 hr. Passed by at 5:00 pm, parking lot was absolutely packed.
There was a Republican table and a Democrat table set up outside. Polite rejections of both sample ballots from a few people, everyone already had decided who they were voting for, and very little interaction from the volunteers at those tables with the people in line.
One thing that was odd to me, the line was very very quiet. Usually, people are chatting. Today, nobody was. Couples that were in line together would quietly talk to each other, but no chatter between others in line, not even about the weather. The mood seemed restrained.
To me, that was an indication of lots of Cold Anger. People are DONE. And they were ready to have their say.
Yes, stressed people do not chit chat.
VA-10 (part of Fairfax County)
4PM, no line. Only one question on ballot, HofR.
ID required, workers said turnout same as 2020.
People gathered around the R booth, D booth workers kinna hiding and looked depressed.
Big swith from last few elections.
Was about the 40th voter this morning just before 8 in a precinct of about 1000. Probably 20 to 25 percent voted early, but the number in the county was less than half the 2020 early vote.
It seemed fairly busy here in this usually blue county in NY (though Republicans do still win some county races).
I have seen far more Zeldin signs than Hochul.
NY has optical scan ballots. Regular black Bic pens on offer. The weakness is the poll book signature is on a digital pad, which never matches a pen signature on paper.
Central NC. Voted @ 2:30P. Good turn-out. Noticed a lot more Republican candidates on the ballot than I remember in the past … especially judges. City is filthy with democrats. County & suburbs are overwhelmingly Republican. Hoping for the best but preparing for the worst … our enemies will never stop as long as they can get away with their crimes. Thanks for all you do Sundance. Godspeed …
A friend from central NY just told me the scanner rejected his ballot, he had to submit another. He voted straight Republican. Makes me suspicious the scanner is rigged to reject such ballots!
Voted around 9:15 a.m. Big turnout at that time. Waited about 25 minutes. Could choose between paper or electronic ballot. Lots of voters choosing paper. One son waited an hour and a half in line. Other son had to wait forty minutes, was told it would be another forty. He eventually had to leave without voting so he could make it to work on time. Everyone I have spoken to has said the lines were very long.
I’m thinking you can have time off from work to vote. Unless they changed things, which is certainly possible. I had a 30 mile drive from work to the voting place and always left work early so I would have time to vote.
Fox news reports the in Luzern PA they ran out of paper ballots so a judge
ordered them to stay open until 10:00 pm since it is not the voter fault
and they should not be disenfranchised.
South Bay of Los Angeles County, California.
I voted around 10:45AM PST and reported in the noon report post below, but I forgot to add an item.
Turnout was quite high, more like a presidential election year. I timed it perfectly, because there were only 2 in line in front of me when I arrived, but there was probably about 30 in line for voting when I exited after voting, around 11:15AM, the beginning of the lunch time voting crowd.
There were about 20 voting machines, with about 4 non-operational, when I started voting. The one next to me went down when I was voting, making about 5 non-operational.
It was really nice to see local retirees manning most of the poll worker positions, like the old days, unlike the gang members from outside the community in the previous few elections.
Busy here in York County Maine. Busier than most off year elections. It’s always very orderly here. Unfortunately, it’s 75% Den and 25% the do-nothings.
Most reliable place to track results online and watch vote totals coming in? I am not paying for decision-desk HQ.
This is one of my fave’s
Baris is great! Bannon knows how to find the best people for his shows.
Also check the epochtimes.com
Miami observations: I went to vote at the local church voting precinct in South Miami around 2:00pm. It was very busy and very animated.
Next, I drove all the way up to the area of Doral to turn in my daughters’ vote-by-mail ballots. Doral is very Hispanic, a majority of Venezuelans. It was PACKED! The traffic was backing up onto the main streets, blocking intersections – there were many, many police cars with lights along all the streets – it was a thing of beauty!
They thankfully had an efficient, separate “drive-thru” line for the drop off of the mail-ins and the car lines were LONG! When it was my turn, I told the worker, “we are getting them OUT!” He said, “it’s sure looking that way!” I remained there until he stamped the ballots and put them into the box.
I’m in central North Carolina. Got to polling site about 430 and was back at my car about 515. Line was long, but moved fast. Place was absolutely packed. Noticed there was a poll watcher. I’ve never noticed there being one there before. Maybe they were always there and I’m more aware post-2020.
Lets hope Mike Lindell’s initiative works and people get caught.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/tracking-every-race-cyber-watching-mike-lindell-issues-stern-warning-anyone-attempts-steal-rig-election-video/
VA 7 district here. Actually had a short wait at my polling station. Normally I don’t have to wait at all. Younger folks were working the polls this year which was nice to see. Only one question on the ballot: Spanberger or Vega. STAY IN LINE If you’re on the West Coast. GO VOTE if you’re on the East and haven’t yet; there’s 55 min left until the polls close.
Voting in the suburbs of Huntsville, Alabama. Good turnout at our precinct. No issues with machines nor people.
Interesting note, we had 16-17 races to vote on. Only about half of those had Democrats running against the GOP candidate.
Small rural precinct in southeast PA….
Parking lot wasn’t very full and normal midterm line so at first I was disappointed, but….
I noticed cars coming and going like crazy. Both outside Republican worker and inside poll worker told me it had been busy all day.
When I got inside I noticed there were twice as many voting booths as usual (to complete paper ballots).
That’s why it moved so fast.
Oh, I was told the precinct next to mine had 25% turnout by 11:30am this morning which was phenomenal .
Now for the steal.
Central North Carolina in a county where the DOJ is observing, has the highest turnout I’ve ever seen for a mid term.
I am praying Kentucky does the right thing on Abortion. Their question on the ballot was kinda worded that many at my polling place was confused.
“Are you in favor of amending the Constitution of Kentucky by creating a new Section of the Constitution to be numbered Section 26A to state as follows: To protect human life, nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to secure or protect a right to abortion or require the funding of abortion?”
Many people were saying they were voting no because they don’t want abortion to be in the state Constitution. We had to explain to so many people to vote Yes.
Los Angeles: Heavy downpours all day. Of course, in LA, anything more than light mist is a Category 11 weather emergency, so, we’ll see how the rain affects in-person turnout.
I expect the CA Democrat political machine to roll up most of the open positions and social justice judges will dominate the judicial elections.
Our local voting location uses computer voting, so, anything can happen.
In other words, status quo for the Sacto Cabal and the CA urban drivers!
When voting with my wife earlier this afternoon, I asked the democrat who is in charge of the facility, if I can check the PA website tomorrow to see how I voted. I told her after the 2020 election the website never went up. She told me I could take a pic of my ballot before I put it in the machine. I told her I knew who I voted for but didn’t know what happens to it after it goes into their machine. Powder still dry…
Bit north of center Ohio
No crowd. Id required, scanned and signatures compared.
Digital but easy to compare.
Chatting while waiting for wife to finish, worker said they got feed good, but not really enough volunteers for everybody to split the day. I’ll get signed up, recently moved here.
My precinct went 90% Trump in 2020, and likely not near enough numbers to bother.
HHI in South Carolina – held my nose and voted for Tim Scott but wrote in Katie Arrington for rep, Mace should win (unless fraud) so didn’t need my vote. Took over 45 minutes to vote – seems like a similar turnout to 2020 presidential election when P. Trump handily carried my precinct. MAGA.
Beaufort county HHI, S.C.
8 am. Long voting lines
12:15 long voting lines 45 min.
2:15 long voting lines, it took me over 45 minutes to get in the door, about 10 minutes from there to actually cast my ballot.
Race called for R Gov. McMaster, and R Senator Tim Scott. Other races are not yet called, including 2 two part referendums.
Just got back from voting with the family. We live in a fairly red area of Florida. The polling site had a very steady flow while we were there.
Gateway Pundit has a rundown of people reporting being told/forced to use markers that will cause their ballots to fail + go into moderation — like was found in 2020.
Volusia county, FL no issues seen except a mask on one of the poll workers lol. Line was 20 people deep but moved along well. Staff seemed competent and everything ran smoothly for me
Kentucky results coming in. Rand Paul up 2 to 1 over Booker.
Poll worked here. Central Ohio is seeing a huge turnout. A much higher number of people who requested absentee ballots are having to vote provisional because they never received their ballot.
Greg Price
@greg_price11
CNN’s Dana Bash reading their exit polls:
“You know what’s missing from this one, two, three, four, five, top five issues? Democracy.” 😂😂😂
Video
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Yep.
I didn’t see “Democracy” on my ballot today so I wrote it in.
(Sarcasm intended)
Yep.
Rich Baris “The People’s Pundit”
@Peoples_Pundit
A majority of this electorate gives a thumbs up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Gaslit again, folks.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Peoples_Pundit/status/1590119424551702528?cxt=HHwWgMDSraPMnpEsAAAA
RedState‘s
@cameron_arcand asked
@KariLake if they support extending in-person voting today due to long lines and reports of Arizona voters having issues casting their ballots. if they support extending in-person voting today due to long lines and reports of Arizona voters having issues casting their ballots.
Where to go information – https://elections.maricopa.gov/voting/where-to-vote.html
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