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I decided to not take advantage of early voting because I wanted to actually vote on Election Day. Silly ... I know. I got up this morning and went to the polls near my house. There was virtually NO line.

My father gave me a card to help me with the voting process. I didn't agree with all the suggestions on the card. I made my own choices. In the past I've voted on a machine, this one was bubble in. Not a fan of bubble in. It was confusing because they put Spanish and French on the ballot at the same time. I almost didn't vote on the opposite side because it just looked like the back of most forms ... extra unnecessary info. Only when I looked down on the "help card" did I realize that I never saw any amendments to vote on.

There were lots of older people in wheelchairs trying to vote. The polling people weren't very helpful with that. Sad.

One man came up behind me and said, "I know you're voting for McCain, right?" Then, he kept chanting McCain on the side of me. Why do I attract the loonies like fly paper?

It took me an extremely long time to fill out the ballot. I'm a techie, a nerd ... I don't like paper. When I finally finished, I asked the woman what to do now. She sent me to a machine that eats my ballot in a big slurp. That was it ... I was done. Took about 20 minutes total.

Then we went to Starbucks to get our free coffee. My dad was wearing this big red hat with Obama on it. Some McCain followers looked at us weird. Cool. I got to the front of the counter and asked for my free coffee w/soy milk. I was excited because I usually pay $4.02. I tipped the guy a dollar, what the hell. Got outside and realized that I had regular Roast coffee. Went back inside and got my Grande Soy Latte anyway. Have I been had? Now, I've paid $5.02 for my coffee. Whatever ...

I went outside to drink my coffee and this little doggie (above) had a sticker on his/her head that said, "I Voted Today!" That made my day...

Me and my father got into a discussion about who I voted for. I told him I didn't know until today who I was voting for. That upset him ... he said that I'm a racist. Ha! A reverse racist. Uh No ... I'd rather vote for the Green Party and call it a day.

I'm thinking of going to a Victory Party tonight, stay tuned, yeah?

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