I was number four in line at Decatur Heights, arriving around 6:10. The man at the front of the line said he arrived at 5:45. Later a man who was maybe number twelve in line said he arrived around 5:15 but decided to wait in his car. He thought everyone walking in were campaign workers. Voting took about five minutes. Number one and I left together and I offered him my umbrella as we walked to his car. "It's the only prize you get for being first", I told him. He laughed, we shook hands, and that was it.
Otherwise it was uneventful. No one was wearing illegal clothing or making snarkie comments. By the time I left, the parking lot was full and people were parking on the street, up to a block away. No problems with traffic or parking.

I just voted in Cobb County and the amount of uncontested candidates was really sad. I have never had less choice in an election than I did today. This was my first time voting in Georgia, is it usually like this?

I just came from voting in Alpharetta at St. James Methodist Church. What a jacked up mess! It was so unorganized and frustrating. I expected to wait, however, the woman policing the line let those entering the door at 7AM in right away while there was about 100 or so of us who had been waiting since 6AM. The gentleman checking your voter registration could barely see your name on the computer to match your id to. Where do I volunteer for the next election?

MUST read:
"Support for Kill List and NDAA make Obama and Romney Unfit for Office"

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/reawakening-liberty/2012/nov/2/support-kill-list-and-ndaa-make-obama-and-romney-u/

Friends say that at Cogburn Woods Elementary in Milton, they only have 10 polling stations and 2 people checking you in. They usually have more than that for local elections! I'm heading up around 10:30 and I'll give you an update then!!

All Saints Episcopal Church on W Peachtree a mess too. You enter a large room and your license and form is first checked. You then enter a large line that goes all the way around the room, behind the voting machines (inches away), then get to the table on the other side of the room and have your info checked and a voter card issued. Problem is, everyone in that long line is looking over your should while you vote. I'm talking literally inches away from you while you vote.

Does anyone know if the polls are back up and running in Oakhurst? Both machines were down when I was there at 8:30am.

Obama will never win the Cuban vote in South Florida or anywhere... Cubans are not part of the Latino movement, nor do they care to be.... Cubans are very grateful that America gave their parents a second chance and they have really embraced this country without expecting a hand out from the government. Hopefully tonight we can say Good Riddance Mr. President, time to give someone else a chance. Cubans do not like Socialism and have never drank the Obama Kool-Aid!!!!

@Atl Resident
Cubans in the United States need to remember that they are Americans and if it is in the best interest of the United States to normalize relations with Cuba than we should. You also should educate yourself on exactly what Socialism is and than you will realize that we are a long way from that.

@George Wilson
With all due respect, yes we are Americans. I remember being 12 years old when my dad said your brother, sister and yourself are Americans and this our country now. They became citizens and said do not expect to have any sense of entitlement, you earn want you want through hard work and if someone esle works harder than you and climbs the ladder of success sooner than you, do not envy them. Also Cubans do not care if stores have signs in Spanish or not and really do not care about the Give Me Latino movement. We simply cannot have relations with Cuba unless they have regime change. Fidel Castro has assassinated men, women and children. We are not at Socialism at the moment, but Obama is sure pushing us that way. Time for a real Leader!

@George Wilson. Perhaps it would have been wise for president Obama to have taken your advice and realized that he too is (supposedly) an American and as such, one of his most important primary functions as president, was to look after the best interests of America. I know that he has failed in that responsibility on all counts in my observation. I also am quite aware of what socialism is, what it represents and what the true definition of the term means. And yes, Barack Obama is a Fabian socialist. Cubans who remember their heritage and from whence they came will remember the stench of it and how socialism and communism have destroyed their country of birth. I don't see them wanting to become part of the same thing here.

@Carl Pydrum Jr. well said!!!!! You took the words out of my mouth.

Atl. resident and Carl - Amen and amen. Maybe before people stand up for a socialism, they might want to talk to a true immigrant. They'd get a far better scope of what it really means.

If just finished voting in Cherokee County. The longest part of the process was driving to and from the polling location. Total time to vote was 10 minutes.

I've been wondering how voting machines are allocated across the state and counties. Does anyone know they're allocated or if the counties purchase them themselves? I've always wondered why it takes only minutes to vote in Cherokee while in other counties, it takes hours...Just curious.

Penelope Sheppard Jordan

Precinct 067, Ivy Creek Baptist Church in Buford took about an hour this morning (arrived at 6 30a, voted about 7 30a) but the members of the church baked pumpkin spice muffins and served coffee down the line, in the rain, this morning. We have THE BEST polling place in Gwinnett County!! Thank you Ivy Creen Baptist Church Poll Workers and Volunteers!!

All you people speaking to George in such a rude and unreasonable manner should be in for a long night tonight....Get ready for four more years......

George...I agree with your statements that Georgia is a single party state and that its presidential vote won't matter as Georgia votes Republican.

The disconcerning thing is that while the state is split roughly 55/45 Rep/Dem our state legislature and federal representives are disproportionately Republican. Currently, our

US House representatives split 62/38 Rep/Dem
State House splits 65/35
State Senate splits 64/36

Via gerrymandering, the Republicans party is drawing districts to protect their legislators from competition and discriminating against Democrats. Via gerrymandering, the 1 person/1 vote rule is broken and it works out to be 1 Republican/1.25 vote and 1 Democrat/.75 vote. The effect of gerrymandering will be even more pronounced after today's election.

Sick of the "african american vote" the "cuban american vote" the "asian american vote" the "jewish american vote", the "christian american vote".... Our country is already divided enough yet we continue to segregate it further.. How about just plain old "Americans"?

It comes down to the following: Supporting Romney is supporting a Plutocratic ideal... Supporting Obama is supporting a Socialist ideal..

Either live with those choices or we need another choice.

RE Precinct 067, Ivy Creek Baptist Church in Buford having coffee and pumpkin bread: Meanwhile grouchy polling officials at Renfroe Middle School in Decatur wouldn't let some idealistic middle school students sell doughnuts anywhere near the voters to raise money for water purification supplies for third world countries. It's THEIR school, already, that is being lent for voting!

What's with all the political signage being allowed at Woodstock High School - I don't care who or what issue the signs are for - despite the school being a polling place, it is still public property.

GA Code:21-2-3.(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to place campaign posters, signs, and advertisements:(1) Within the right of way of any public streets, roads, or highways;(2) On any public property or building;

@George Wilson I agree there is a double standard. America is scared of China, I for one would have dealt with them Militarily years ago and probably used very severe force against them when I was in the military as a paratrooper. I do not trust China and never will... Fidel Castro personally, unlike the leader of China is a Known Assassin of women, men and children. How in the world can you keep insisting that we have relations with a known Assassin the leader of Cuba. Fidel and his brother Raul need to die like the rats they are similar to the way Suddam Husseim and Ghaddafi died like the that cowards they were... As for the doctors of Cuba, my grandfather was murdered because of his political beliefs and was once the most powerful doctor in Cuba. He was the Director of Calixto Garcia the biggest hospital in Cuba. For the other ignorant people that think the sugar lobby is stopping the relations, they should wake up and stop breathing the stench of Socialism and Communism. There is not enough sugar in Cuba to make even a small dent on our economy.

I have been voting at Brown Elementary in Smyrna for a couple of decades. The poll is always very well run. Kudos to those working the polls there.

Tl. Resident - thanks for having the courage to speak out as you have. There are a few of us that hasn't bought into the worship of a man to the detriment of our country.

Thanks Tammy just keep it real!

When will the "so called people of courage" realize they have been backing a patholigical lier who has said anything to anybody at anytime in order to try and get elected. Who is this man? What does he stand for except pandering to the most extreme base element of the RP? After President Obama wins re-election the RP will have to takes its party back from the Birthers, Birchers, white supremist, Christian ideologues, homophopics, and misogynists (who did I miss?) and figure out how to advocate conservative platforms that appeals beyond a shrinking demographic...white men. The extremists who have hijacked the RP party are playing a losing game. You can not win a national election by trying to appeal and expand a diminishing population...white men. With that said, it only makes sense why these wackos oppose the Dream Act, support voter suppression and repealing women's rights and civil rights. They want their "owned" white women producing more white, male babies. What a sick group of puppies.

@atl resident- Thank you for your input from what better perspective than a true immigrant. I appreciate you and your families obvious assimilation into the American culture and grabbing a piece of the American dream as you should be. ~nods~ You will go far as you actually get it, especially being the comparison you have first hand.

I voted at tithe recreation center in Wills Park, it was a joke. It took an 1 1/2 hours; they were so slow getting people to the voting machines that only 5 out of 25 machines were being used at any given time. This always happens at the Rec. center every time I vote there, you wait in line forever and when you finally get to vote, you see only a couple of the voting machines are being used at any given time. The volunteers are terribly slow all the time at the Rec. center and they never have enough volunteers. Seems you have to be old and slow to qualify as a volunteer at the Wills Park Rec. center.

Eddie E., exactly. BTW, I haven't been posting quite as much lately due to family health challenges, but I've been keeping up with you. Well done on your part.

PS to your comment, that's why this ploy of pushing everything back to "states rights" is an extremist Trojan horse.

"...pushing everything back to "states rights" is an extremist Trojan horse..." E Plurbus Unum

Could be but it doesn't---and shouldn't---result in states' rights being bad because of states that had abused it any more than the National Voterrs Right Act must be bad because of even foreign states abusing it now.

The remedy is in recognizing and dealing with the abusers of the law, not the law itself.

Arrived at Inman Middle School on Virginia Avenue to vote at about 4:30 pm, and there was no wait at all. No line.

Cubans tend to vote Republican because the Bay of Pigs happened under a Democrat. That's what my 1st generation American-Cuban friends and co-workers in South Florida tell me.

Loganville American Legion- in and out.

don Gabacho, thank you for your observation. I agree that dealing with abusers of law is important. But dealing with abusers is often not very effective when the abusers are the ones in power and control.

wahoooooo Georgia!!! way to go!! :)

Political Gadfly
9:03 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012

"The covered area at Skyland Precinct kept us dry while we waited (no more than 20 minutes) and the Church members........." Let's talk about the Skyland area.

Why did J. Max Davis, as President of the Brookhaven Yes organization and countless volunteers fight so hard for us, the taxpayers of unincorporated DeKalb County, to be given the opportunity to become our own city ? Because everyone, Vote Yes and No.org, knew that we weren't getting our fair share of taxes spent in our parks and roads, among many other places. Brookhaven will take over 11 DeKalb County parks, when Brookhaven purchases them from the county at $ 100.00 per acre. It can't come soon enough for me ! Here is a list of all the parks in DeKalb County, from their website, http://www.co.dekalb.ga.us/parks/pr-facilities-ammenities.html

Look under Atlanta and then look under Chamblee, GA parks. Do you find Skyland Park ? I sure didn't. It's near PDK airport. http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl
It's also next door to the DeKalb County Vital Records Unit. I hope voter registration records aren't stored there ! Yikes. If the county can lose a park that is by my guesstimate 5-6 acres, where are all our tax dollars going ? I sure don't know.