Sticking with our traditional election day discussions, this thread is specifically focused on what is happening in/around your neighborhood and precinct this election day 2022.
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 updated ‘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?
Report from South Bay in LA county.
Something has changed. Last midterms were run at elementary and mid-schools, with hard-core gang bangers running the polling places (you know – the ones with tear drop tattoos signifying they have done hard time for murder).
Clearly the poll workers did not live in the neighborhood and appeared to be segregating democrat and republican ballots in separate collection boxes. Why there was more than one collection box was suspicious. A woman took my ballot (filled in at home, but dropped off at the polling place in person on voting day) and almost put it in the left hand collection box (the two were right next to each other). A tear tattooed gang member supervisor stopped her sternly and ordered her to place it in the collection box on the right.
Previous to those elections, polls were in park community centers and churches, with retirees who were clearly members of the local neighborhood, who sometimes recognized you by sight.
The poll worker who gave me my ballot today recognized me – she lives a bit down the street – and we had a nice little chat – just like the old days.
Last time I voted, at a middle school, which had not been used as a polling place in many, many years, had stupid apple computer based touch screen voting. You made and verified your selections on the computer screen and then it printed out a paper with a QR code with your selections, which could not be read or verified by humans. You then had to walk the paper to a second machine which scanned up the stupid QR code and did the voting. There was no way a human could do a recount with out the machine to scan the QR code and then you had to trust the programming in the scanner was transcribing your selections properly. If a recount had to be performed, I am pretty sure the company that made the machines would claim their QR printer/scanner code was proprietary and we just have to trust them that the votes were being encoded/scanned properly.
This time the same machine printed out your selections in human readable format, along with the unverifiable QR code, which likely is where the voting fraud is being implemented (this is Los Angeles, there is always massive fraud in all elections). The QR code needs to go, but at least it would be theoretically possible to do a hand recount of the paper ballots (assuming they don’t immediately shred them). The machine printed out your votes on the paper for you to verify correctness. Then you placed the paper ballot in the same machine and it did the scanning to actually do the voting. There was not a separate 2nd machine to do the ballot (QR code) scanning.
One additional item – approximately 20% of the voting machines were broken or taken out of service for some reason or other. Seemed rather strange as these appeared to be brand new machines, not more than 0 to 2 years old. The machine being used by a woman next to me failed and was taken offline while I voted.
if you have a smartphone, it has a qr reader, use it
What is a qr reader
It is a reader that might be able to decipher that square postage size printing that many organizations are now using. This has taken the place of the old bar code.
I wanted to take a picture of my filled out ballot, for proof, but one of the workers told me I was not allowed do that.
Don’t ask permission
Voted in Cochise Co. Az and my polling place had to retire two machines because they weren’t working properly. Lots of people standing in line and the line kept filling up. More than I have ever seen there.
The Democrats don’t miss a trick, do they?
MTG…
Good news:
Guam – Delegate Election Results:
Moylan (R): 52.2%
Won Pat (D): 47.2%
Is that a flip or a hold?
I had no problem voting this morning in Collin County, TX. But, ……..
“Polling issues, delays could extend voting hours in two Texas counties”
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/elections/2022/11/08/texas-monitors-for-glitches-polling-issues-on-election-day/
Same/same down 380 in Denton County. Problem here in Texas is this fraud Abbott where we could (should) have had West, Huffines, or Prather. Thanks to the normie DOPES we get Abbott and damn near wound up with BUSH instead of Ken Paxton.
Scottsdale AZ machines down
Machines down all over AZ…
That would seem to suggest the government portal has been disabled… and of course the “election integrity” screeners have all been fired.
Yeah, and it is the always same gang of miscreants! They’ll snatch this out from Kari Lake sometime tomorrow morning.
Atlanta suburb. Red County going towards purple. Nearly empty. No wait. Seems like a slow steady stream. No problems. I have 3 family members who all early voted red. I got pissy though because I can’t read the bar code of who I voted for. Georgia could not possibly do more to make its people question voter integrity.
That’s the way the ballots were 2 years ago in Los Angeles County, CA.
A stupid QR code on a piece of paper that was unreadable, supposedly had your selections encoded in it and that QR code had to be scanned by a second machine to read the selections hidden in the QR code.
Telegram is down.
People need it for communication about what’s happening on the ground.
Its working fine for me.
Boston: No one showering me with leaflets at the entrance, which they usually do even when they’re sure they have a lock.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/florida-governor-ron-desantis-blocks-ag-garlands-election-monitors-entering-polling-locations/
He blocks FBI from interfering with elections….
…. but not from invading Mar-a-lago…. right.
he wrote a letter
The letter referred to a state law specifically addressing who can enter polling places … love 45 but I doubt there is such a law regarding entering Mar-a-lago.
Voted at noon in Fairfax County. Quite a few people in line for this ballot with only one congressional seat.
Busiest I’ve seen it for a non presidential year.
Ohio has an amendment on the ballot to guarantee that only U.S. citizens who have resided for 30 days in the state can vote: no local jurisdiction can let non-citizens vote.
I assume that amendment will pass by a wide margin!
Here in fairly MAGA NW Ohio turnout seemed good in my local area.
One scraggly rural type with a MAGA hat waved at us cheerily (we had never seen him before) smiled and called:
“THEY LET ME VOTE!” 🙂
Here in Nevada, the ballot has Question 3, which will open the primaries to anyone regardless of party or no party. Just another way for the left to squash any challenge to their power and like you there in Ohio, I expect this also to pass by wide margins here.
It was a bit shocking to see that on ballot. I mean come on….only LEGAL CITIZENS vote in elections. If you are NOT a citizen of the United States of America you have NO business voting in our elections. Don’t care if it is a local, state or presidential election. You MUST be a legal citizen of the USA. Gahhh!
Voted Red straight down the ticket! But I always do.
It is painfully obvious why Katie Hobbs didn’t recuse herself. She’s the SOS. How is this legal?
It ain’t legal. Still it is worth noting for the past two years the GOP had both houses of the legislature and the governorship and did nothing about Maricopa County. So here we are yet again!
The only odd thing I encountered at my polling place (NE Louisiana) was I got a notification on my phone of an open Wi-Fi network. The machines were ancient touchscreens and the wait was negligent.
Did you take a pic? If so, email images to your County and State Board of Elections with the poll site location/name. Ask them to investigate…
No sorry. None of the LA races were competitive like in other states.
Extraneous MN area. Poll worker told me they are getting reports of other precincts running out of supplies because of large turnout. Our little precinct did not appear to be having any issues and very modest wait time. I don’t trust the machines. Paper ballots, no machines. If France can do it in one day, so can we.
Exurban, not extraneous.. damn autocorrect…
Back in the 1980s we had paper ballots and elections were counted the same day.
As a new, young voter, I was aggravated each presidential election being called before I even got to go to the polls after work in CA. Yes, they often called presidential elections before 6pm PST.
On the West coast, there was talk of trying to pass a law to make it illegal to release vote counts until after polls closed in the West.
Now with this wonderful computer technology it takes 30 days before and 15 days after an election to vote and count.
This clear fraud.
here in oklahoma i hope gov stitt can hold his chair.
but with closing public schools today in okla city so the teachers can vote…i’m nervous.
if this state allows the gov seat to switch blue…we will live to regret it.
i don’t care if you like stitt personally or not(i love the guy)….HOLD THE LINE!
you can not give these people control of ANYTHING.
Ground Report: Lowndes County, Georgia.
Georgia divided up it’s voting districts following the Big Steal of 2020. Here in Lowndes that resulted in a lot of new polling places and more than a little confusion.
We now find ourselves in District 03 at a little Missionary Baptist Church not far from our home. We (my wife and I) went to vote at a little past 1100 Hrs (we were ballots 43 and 44) and then checked in as Poll Watchers at 1130, where we remained until 1430. Fully a quarter of those who entered the polling place where re-directed to other polling locations. There had only been 90 votes and 3 provisional ballots by the time we left.
Just voted. I live in a small town in NC foothills. Flyover country. Trump MAGA country. This area has taken a big hit since the mfg jobs were exported. A high rate of addiction etc.
The poll was at the town’s recreation center. Steady stream of voters. Overheard a guy there say (must have been a question of whether he would be able to vote there) “I will drive to Charlotte to vote if I have to.” I knew how he would vote then.
A family with two school age kids went to a table to fill in ballots. Later I saw them outside stop to take a family selfie.
It is a beautiful day here, 72 degrees and sunny. We are surrounded by mountains. I brought lunch to eat at the park after voting. Kids were playing on the playgrounds, a young couple was cuddling, teenagers were shooting baskets and playing tennis. I was reminded of the small town life they hate so much and the lifestyles they want to destroy.
I love small towns!
My husband and I voted in a small town near Fort Worth, TX. There were about twice as many polling stations from the last couple of elections and 1-2 more poll workers to handle the folks. We went about 0830, the line was relatively short and we were out of there in less than 30 minutes. The poll worker said it had been very busy when the polls first opened. All the machines seemed to be fully functional and I verified my votes on the ballot before putting it into the tabulator. We don’t have straight ticket voting but the Rs are first for each choice and I marked R down the whole ticket.
Berks Cty Pa. steady line of people no massive lines, no machine issues i saw or heard about andeveryone/everything appears legit. MAGA Vibes!
Nampa Idaho 10 am Big turn out! The crowd was bigger than the 2020 election. One glitchy voting machine but the line was moving quickly. I was told by one election worker that it has been steady all morning and the wait to vote is about 10-20 minutes.
“The crowd was bigger than the 2020 election.”
Biden’s turnout in the 2020 election was “allegedly” the biggest in history at that time. Your voting narrative is a good one but I guess “Bigger” doesn’t always mean fair or honest in elections, as you know.
Idaho is likely one of the more reliable states to vote.
Machine signature is new at my polling place. probably better than a notebook of scribbles, in theory.
I’ll take the hard copy- scribbles or not. I categorically do not trust the machine managers, therefore I do not trust the machines.
except now they have your digital signature stored who knows where, with who knows what kind of security, but sure as heck they have access to it should they ever ‘need’ to use it….maybe after you move or die.
General info. https://patriots.win/p/16ZDhGrgzD/election-fraud-resources/
Great info. Thanks for posting
My wife and I plus a neighbor and his wife just voted at 1:30 today in Melbourne Florida. All straight red, even lil Marco got my vote this time. Long 3 page ballot and it WAS VERY BUSY. I have never seen it like this.
I just got back from voting. My precinct is more rural just north of Asheville, NC.
It was lightly busy but poll worker told me it had been busy all day and this was a slight break.
I talked to the two people outside the polling site handing out Republican sample ballets. The guy was very knowledgeable. He had been there since 6:30 this morning. He said that 500 people had voted so far today and that is very good for this site. He also told me, and this was very interesting, that there are 3900 registered voters in this precinct and so far 2800 had voted. That is a lot. Mostly early voting I guess. That is not so good from my perspective but the cheating is harder to do in small areas like this. Most cheating is in the cities.
I had also read on the Patriots forum here that so far 92 people had gone to vote and were told they had already voted, that’s for Buncombe County I think. There were instructions for what to do if that happens.
No FIB here but they are stationing them in the city areas like Charlotte and since we have a Dem governor they will I am sure have free reign.
I’m praying for a good day…the country really needs a change.
Almost 6 more hours to vote here in Wyoming and where I am working the poll we already have 80 percent of the number we had at the end of voting day for the primary!! Praise God for the turnout!!
Is Liz Cheney on the ballot as an Independent or is it not allowed?
Took a walk at 7:30 AM to see how busy my voting station was. Busier than other times. Someone coming out was #93 with 13 still in line.
Went back at 2 to vote and was #655. They had markers but I used my own blue pen. So I’d say numbers are up but I’d like to see more.
First link: Explanation of work of Federal Monitors assigned to Sonoma county California. California has 58 counties. NO explanation why.
There are 3,142 counties in the USA per atlas.com. Sonoma county was the only Ca. county assigned Federal Monitors by the Justice Dept. Sonoma is over – the – top – sideways – Left – liberal county West of Napa, 1 hr. North of San Fran. and 1 hr. west of the capitol, Sacramento and the serious farming Sacramento Valley which was not assigned Fed. Monitors.
Sonoma county is geographically a large, agriculture, and has large organized Hispanic population of workers. Page from Monday, 11/7/22 county newspaper, owned by the NYTimes, tries to explain the Monitors.
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/justice-department-will-monitor-voting-in-sonoma-county-on-tuesday/
2nd link is a photo of the empty polls today 11/8/22 at 10:50 election day. Also, virtually no traffic on the main roads Did literally everyone mail their ballot?
It’s raining all day so workers are not working in the vineyards, orchards and cattle fields or fishing off the coast. Many will be working in the many, many dairies, horse barns, chicken and turkey barns.
https://www.pressdemocrat.com
This will evolve during the day and Wed. Look for photo caption: “It’s election day in sonoma county…” November 8th, 2022 and 3 photos of just 1 person voting! in a large empty room.
Went to vote around 9 am this morning and my husband called and said he heard on the radio there were problems with the voting machines in Walkersville, Maryland so I needed to be sure and use paper. Walkersville would definitely be Red so no surprise…
Great twitter follow for Virginia trends and results:
Tweets by ProjectVirginia
Looks like the real Virginia Sic Semper Tyrannis spirit has been resurrected !
CIA Spannberger is on the ropes.
Kudos, btw, to Project Virginia, which was knee deep in this fight well before many others. Respect.
Yes, I have followed VA Project for several years. He was out in the trenches. He is on fire today.
The Virginia Project
@ProjectVirginia
If there’s a Republican who’s got what it takes to win the 10th, Hung Cao – generator of a stunning turnout in a hotly contested primary – is it.
The stage is set, the numbers are playing out…. turn out every GOP voter and we got this!
In Prescott, long lines at senior center at 1pm, 10-minute wait, well-staffed and helpful
Just voted in ME 2, straight Red ticket. Long line of college aged folks registering but few lines at the polls. Did notice the vote tabulator was hooked to a cell phone so grabbed a photo for posterity.
Attorneys File Suit After Ballot Accepted in Georgia County on Loose-Leaf Paper after Security Feature Was Turned Off in ALL Examined Machines
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/breaking-attorneys-file-suit-ballot-accepted-georgia-county-loose-leaf-paper-security-feature-turned-off-examined-machines/
“On October 19, 2022, Spalding County officials discovered a fraudulent ballot that was “seemingly scanned and accepted by the tabulator.” The ballot was printed on lined looseleaf paper!”
Northeast Washington here. No lines but a steady stream at the drive-up drop boxes. Would appear most people up here are trying to beat the vote by mail fraud, by only voting on election day. Watch King County, the heart of the vote fraud in the state of Washington
I’m in Oakland County, Michigan. Usually I’m the only one in the building going to vote. Today, there were about 6. Oakland County has been RED forever until 2018 when it all went BLUE.
Milwaukee WI suburb here. No problems with the voting, none expected–this precinct has done paper ballots that the voter feeds into the scanner him-/herself for as long as I can remember.
Turnout is much higher than normal–the voter verification procedure had me around the 800th person to vote in the early afternoon, when for a midterm it would normally be in the 300s. This is a heavily Democratic area, so that’s a bit ominous.
Voted in Las Vegas near the strip. Had to wait 15-20 minutes. Asked the worker and she said has been busy all day.
After I finished voting, the line was longer than when I arrived.
I’m in North Idaho and today I had the longest wait I have ever had here to vote
Voted early this morning in Gwinnett County, GA.
I was 8th person to vote…only 6 machine working. Long line when I left around 7:20.
Frederick, MD – my voting place is outside of town in a Ruritan hall. I’ve voted at this location for may prior elections – and at 11:30a today, this was the busiest I’ve ever seen it. There were lines out the door to ‘check in’, lines to get your ballot (or chose to vote via ‘touch screen’), lines to get to a voting booth, and then lines to get your completed ballot scanned. One of the poll workers said that it’s good that I can in when I did – because the lines had been much worse just an hour earlier. My sweetheart reported that the lines were out the door of the building when she got there to vote after she got off work.
SO – it at least appears that turnout is high. I’m just hoping that the turnout is high enough that it makes the ‘margin of cheat’ too narrow (i.e. – there’s not enough voters not voting to ‘throw’ the election by ‘adding’ them to the ‘losing’ side”).
It’ll be interesting to see how many instances of > 100% turnout occur around the country, or instances of ‘interrupted’ counting – with ballots being ‘found’ overnight, or other ‘irregularities’ of the type seen in the 2020 election.
NW Tennessee here, heavily red country which trump won by 70%.
Democrats here are quiet
Took me all of ten minutes
Small midwest city on the edge of a large metro area here. We vote in a church. Those places we were not allowed to congregate in while they shut us down. We went about 9 AM and I had only 1 person in front of me and a lot behind me. We started a rush and filled up all the tables. They said early was very hectic. The 7 AM crowd. I can go anytime, so I usually hang back and let those who punch a clock get in and out before I go. It was very smooth and always is.
The R party was outside offering laminated voter guides if anyone wanted one. NICE.
Carrollton, GA…my small precinct, in a local country church, was more active that normal. I asked a poll worker how the turnout had been and they said it was much higher than normal. I usually don’t have to wait at all and it took my wife and I about 10 minutes. No problems with machines(Dominion…:-0) but they did ask me to turn my cell phone off. That was new and I’m not sure if that’s Georgia law now or not.
Voted around one today. I saw lines, rain and cold but no problems that I could see. Here in my Nevada town, people here are just fired up to vote. However, if there is going to be skullduggery with the votes, it will down south in Las Vegas! That fact has me concerned.
Fiancée and I voted Saturday morning using Palm Beach County’s early voting appointment system. I’ll never vote on election day again. Easy but the process was similar to Joemama – It was a touchscreen system with verification of your votes. It would then print the ballot, you could confirm it printed correctly, then it’d go into the tabulation machine. What happens from there…who knows!
A family member back in Cincinnati sent a message earlier- “Wow! Just got back from voting. It was packed. Even with more voting cubes and tables there was still a line at 1:30. A poll worker said when they opened there was a waiting line of 100 people. Never in 45 years even for presidential races have we seen such a turn out.“
Smooth sailing in my NC town.
5 minute wait. Steady flow but no real lines this morning. Paper ballots.
Machine tabulator. Regular ink pens.
Prayers for our nation!
St Paul MN – Nasty lines (1 hour) in a place that has never taken me more than 5 minutes to vote. Went at an off time, not when people are going to work, etc. – 10 am. Looks like the line length was intentional. Heard they shut down another polling place and combined it with this one, and this was not done for teh primary a few months back. Also, now using the machines seems very suspicous – you put your ballot into the scanner, and it lights up and says ballot read. No printout of confirmation of my votes, no confirmation of anything. From what I know now, it just means that how I voted will be input to the dominon code matrix. The whole thing felt off.
Do you think perhaps the push for ED voting was on purpose? My husband and I voted early and our ballots are accounted for.
People need to think about what might happen and prepare accordingly. I am sorry for what people are experiencing in Maricopa county. All they’re trying to do is to exercise their God given right to vote. God bless America.
I think they have a plan for whatever method of voting we do. I voted today and had no trouble. In 2020 I early voted and I am absolutely convinced my vote was stolen.
NE, very blue state, small rural area
much higher turn out than normal for mid terms at three different locations–have 3 family members who vote at different districts about the same time every year and all were minimum +100 for their voter number. I am usually voter number 240ish during mid terms and was #411 today. ~1000 voters in my district. Steady stream of voters today.