VOTE TODAY - 7 am to 8 pm

[ron_newman]

Today is the special election for U.S. Senate. Please vote. Polls are open from 7 am to 8 pm.

If you don't know where your polling place is, look it up at http://WhereDoIVoteMA.com . Somerville residents can also find their polling places by using this form.

DSLJ moderator surrealestate will be working the polls at Ciampa Manor today. Stop in and say hi to her.

Comments

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

I realize it's a little late to be thinking of this, but I have some free time Tuesday, and the weather is looking to be crappy. Anyone know how I might go about volunteering to drive people to the polls for an hour or so?

Also, are these sorts of things organized in a general-community sort of way, or a partisan sort of way? If I have a strong candidate preference myself, is it unethical, illegal, or logistically improbable for me to offer to drive voters of a particular party affiliation?

thanks!

[ron_newman]

Take a look here ... but I'm making a possibly unjustified assumption about who you are supporting. At this point a phone call makes more sense than e-mail.

[m-b-w.livejournal.com]

If you are physically able to do so, another thing you could do to help folks get to the polls is SHOVEL - for your neighbors, outside of the polling places, etc. And, make the path wide enough for a stroller or wheelchair!

I just voted.

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

And with the light rain, it's a slippery slush out there. Not terrible yet, but it may become terrible if it freezes over, later today.

[blacktigr.livejournal.com]

Thank you about the info about when the polls open. I've been looking for that all over the place, but haven't found it. I think that if they are open at 7 am, then I might be able to get my husband to vote before he leaves for work. One more vote that counts...

[ron_newman]

Polls are always open from 7 am to 8 pm. This election is no different from usual.

[blacktigr.livejournal.com]

I used to live a half block from the polling place. We dropped in when we saw the parking lot mostly empty. We knew to vote by the fact that there was a giant flag right in front of the place. I never had to keep track of any of these details before.

That said, we voted. Thanks.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

That may be, but it would be nice if the city would put that on the several pages its website has devoted to polling information. I looked at several pages without seeing the hours listed, but maybe they put it in some weird little side-box, rather than in a highly visible location on the page where important information like that ought to be.

[ron_newman]

I agree that it should be on WhereDoIVoteMA.com , but it is on the main Mass.gov webpage as well as Secretary of State Galvin's main page.

Puzzling....

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

what does this mean? Precincts reporting? Voting is still open... Aren't votes counted at the end? Something is weird...

http://www.boston.com/news/special/politics/2010/senate/results.html

Re: Puzzling....

[ron_newman]

Hell if I know! Maybe someone fed test data into the Globe and accidentally published it live? No votes can be legally counted before the polls close.

Edit: I just went back to that page, and now all the figures are zeroes.

Re: Puzzling....

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

And Somerville is heavily red, apparently...

Re: Puzzling....

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

Ah, OK, it was a test. I wish I had taken a screenshot...

Re: Puzzling....

[ron_newman]

Me too. UniversalHub.com would love to see this kind of blunder from the Globe.

Re: Puzzling....

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

Others seem to have noticed as well (warning, freepland)... For example:

http://209.157.64.201/focus/f-news/2432175/posts

Re: Puzzling....

[ron_newman]

Unfortunately none of the Freepers grabbed a screenshot either.

Re: Puzzling....

[ismymiddlename.livejournal.com]

there's a sreenshot on bostonist:

http://tinyurl.com/ydkhu85

Re: Puzzling....

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

Somerville is red. I wonder if they just plugged in random data. I don't think so, because there seems to be some structure in the data.

Re: Puzzling....

[unferth.livejournal.com]

The Phoenix (http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/talkingpolitics/archive/2010/01/19/boston-globe-calls-election-for-martha-coakley.aspx) has screenshots, and a statement from the Globe:

AP was testing an election data feed to its Massachusetts clients. During corresponding tests at our end, the feed of AP's hypothetical test data was inadvertently posted for a few minutes on a single subsection page within ur site. As soon as the error was discovered, it was removed. We regret the mishap.

Disclaimer: I work for the Globe.

[davelew.livejournal.com]

I voted at the Brown school this morning. Usually, voting is done in the entrance off the paved ballfield, but for today's voting they are asking people to use the entrance off Josephine.

[ron_newman]

Were there any Brown Signs at the Brown School? ;-)

(there were no signs at Dilboy VFW when I voted at lunchtime today. Also no line.)

Hahah!

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

I was wondering the same! :)

Re: Hahah!

[davelew.livejournal.com]

No signs, not even any free brownies!

[bombardiette.livejournal.com]

This is the only useful post I've seen on the FP today with respect to this election. Thank you.