Month: November 2004

This is my first election as a political official; every election prior to this has been as a more casual voter. While I’m no naif, I confess to being surprised by some of the shenanigans going on throughout my township (I’m the chair of the Naperville Democrats, we are a town of about 60,000 voters)…

Just got a call from OneMan who reports that turnout in Aurora is on its way to a record. As he arrived at one polling place in the Will County part of Aurora, he guessed the line was 70 people deep and the parking lot was full.

Showed up at my polling place at 6:15am, just 15 minutes after the polls opened. The line was 20 people deep, and I was the 50th person in my precinct to pull a ballot. Without taking new registrations into account, the estimate on turnout in the precinct was 780 for the day; wonder how much…

My journey to election day started back in August, 2002. After reading about Howard Dean in The Guardian, I called Burlington, Vermont. It’s been a long 26 months. In just over five hours, I’ll walk into the voting booth and cast a vote for John Kerry, Barack Obama, Gloria Andersen, Rob Freedman, Mike Kisler, Hiram…