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[thestopsign]

There was a post in PoliGAF that said Dem internal polls have Hillary +1 in Texas.

 

[PillarEN]

Election day generally has much more local voting stations. Early voting has far fewer, so you have to travel more. If I waited until election day, it would have been at the fire station about 1/2 mile away

Early voting is in limited locations but you can vote at whichever you want (on the way to work or near shoping for example). Voting day voting is generally in far more places but you can only vote at your assigned precinct (close to home).

Ah cool. Thanks for clearing that up

 

[Huge Succeeded]

i'm sitting pretty smack dab in the center of Trump Alley, over here in just east of nowhere Mount Joy Pennsylvania. Every time I drive the eight minutes from work I wonder how the fuck I ended up somewhere where damn near every second house is plastered in Trump shit.

 

[Ziltoidia 9]

WTF is this shit?

you guys vote like that?

Yeah they haven't changed in like 8 years. My first time was in 2008, I remember having a paper one for Obama, but ever since I've used those things. Can't believe they dont have touch screen ones yet.

 

[Luschient]

Well brehs, just waited in line for two hours in the Texas sun to try and turn this place blue in 2016.

Time to go pass out.

 

[jmdajr]

Well brehs, just waited in line for two hours in the Texas sun to try and turn this place blue in 2016.

Time to go pass out.

Good work man. Sucks the process isn't better. I went first thing Monday morning.

 

[SolKane]

I just got back from voting, took about 15 minutes here in Williamson County. There were a dozen or so people ahead of me. I didn't vote in 2012 but felt compelled to this election.

FWIW this is a pretty conservative county and I think I've seen only a single Trump sign in the last few months.

 

[Busaiku]

Voted yesterday for Brazoria.
First time voting!

Was quick for me, maybe 5 min total.

 

[doctorblurg]

I voted on tuesday thankfully I live in a smaller county than Denton now so I got in and out pretty much instantly. One more vote to turn Texas blue hopefully.

 

[Iksenpets]

There was a post in PoliGAF that said Dem internal polls have Hillary +1 in Texas.

At this point I'm weirdly rooting for the situation where Hillary wins Texas, Arizona, and Georgia but loses Ohio, Iowa, and Maine's first district just because it would be the most weirdly interesting result.

I'm voting tomorrow, drove past my polling place today, and I was going too quick to see how many actual people were there, but there was definitely a line of cars backed up waiting to pull into the library. Things don't seem to be slowing down much.

 

[Wray]

If the Clinton camp was smart they'd pour a bunch of their leftover campaign money at this point into Texas to try to drive up the vote as much as possible, and most importantly, start seeding things for 2020 and 2024.

 

[Vyer]

Just voted. Even standing in line was depressing. Two women behind me were pretty much checking off every box when it comes to Trump talking points they read on Facebook. They went from the 'my daughter in Amarillo - who is well educated! - had the machine change her vote so we better check when we're done!' to 'and everybody just says to check Snopes this and Snopes that but you know who runes that website? Two liberals in California, so you can't trust that' to 'she really scares me, I think it's probably the end of the world if she is president!'

At some point one of them decided to blurt out 'and you know who the first slaves were? The Irish.' for whatever reason.

They were just so exasperated and beside themselves that people just couldn't see the 'truth'

And of course there were some quick 'I'm not prejudiced at all I have a black/Mexican/half ______' whenever the still functioning part of their brain kicked in to remind them how they sounded.

It was fascinating and totally sad all at the same time.

It would be nice to see a little purple, but sadly I'd be downright shocked to see this state ever turn blue anytime soon. Hopefully that's just the weight of my anecdotal experience making me too cynical.

 

[copelandmaster]

Voted. Took 45 minutes, 5 minutes in the sun. Loads of people started showing up 30 min before the cuttoff.

A conversation from a couple in the line that always voted early - 'usually there was no one ever there, there's a lot of people this year'. The election climate this season really lit a fire under people's asses it seems.