Swung past the local polling place (at St Thomas More Church), went in. They had a combo of precincts in one place, as usual. I signed up, queued up, and in about 5 minutes stepped into the little Voting Machine Booth.
We don't have paper or optical ballots in our area. Instead, we have big "tablets" with the appropriate ballot printed on it. You press at the Yes or No spot (or the spot for the candidate), and there's a little keypad at the bottom for write-ins. It's the same machines they've had here for the last three or four elections, so there's nothing surprising about them.
I explained about voting and elections and campaign signs to Kitten as we drove there from her pre-school. And she came with me into the booth and helped press some of the buttons. I think she had fun, and she got the litle "I VOTED!" sticker on her shirt.
No real delays or big lines. The poll folk noted that it had been really busy earlier in the day, and sounded like htey had some initial setup problems with the machines, but no sign of any other problems.
Huzzah.
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