Election Day: Your Vote for McCain or Obama in Pictures

November 4, 2008 RSS Feed Print
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Readers are responding to our request for pictures of their long voting lines and victory parties.

Our first comes from our Debra Bell, who snapped this shot at 6:55 a.m. in Crystal City, Va.

From U.S. News Opinion Editor Robert Schlesinger in Alexandria, Va.

From a Montgomery, Md., voter who waited 45 minutes in line

A young boy speaks with a poll worker as his mother votes in Lindenhurst, N.Y. From reader Bob Klein

Our Anthony Calabrese snapped this picture at the Metropolitan AME Church on M Street in Washington.

Reader Debra Alder sent this picture in of a polling place in Silver Spring, Md.

Here's my voting place in Philomont, Va., where they clear out the fire hall to make space. Only when I went, it was empty, making me first in line.

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2008 presidential election,
John McCain,
elections,
Barack Obama

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What I observed at the voting places here in Milford was an orderly, no confusion flow of voters.

I am very proud of my adopted home town.

joe derosa of CT 2:18PM November 04, 2008

We call ourselves a democracy but still have shameful voter suppression by corrupt Republicans. If voters have to stand in ridiculously long lines, especially in battleground states, many citizens can't wait that long and will be disenfranchised from voting.

Oregon has 100% mail-in voting and Washington State will soon have 100% mail-in voting too. This is much better than the current mess we see in other states. First you can complete your ballot at your leisure with all the information in front of you. Second there is a paper backup which can be independently scanned in close elections to verify the winner. This proved very valuable in Washington State's 2004 governors race where less than 200 votes separated the winner from the loser.

We desperately need voting reform in the United States so citizens are not disenfranchised from voting.

See http://Democracy-Now.us

Joel of WA 2:17PM November 04, 2008

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