By the way

[mmcirvin]

Our voting experience was like The Claw's: no significant lines, small numbers of old people. I'd assumed it was that way all over Massachusetts, which is not exactly a battleground state, but there were long lines elsewhere.

At least I saw other people voting. In off years, sometimes I'm the only person there.

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[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

...Though we had optical-scan ballots instead of touch-screen machines. The only time I've ever voted with an electronic voting machine was in the 1988 Virginia Democratic primary (one of the few years they even had a primary). I did use a punchcard butterfly ballot in Cambridge once or twice.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

It is usually only old people, or no one else.

This year was different. There were about fifty people there when we were there, white, black, hispanic, old, young, everyone. I was impressed with the voter turnout.