Laura I'm sorry that your house is torn down.
I wanted to ask one of the poll managers about the time limit and what if someone needed more time...for example if they had a learning disability or some kind of physical issue that made it hard for them to move their hands quickly but I didn't because I also didn't want to give anyone a reason to kick me out if I seemed confrontational.
I am going to see if I can find out more info. There were only 2 measures besides just the voting . I don't know if SC has a lot of things to vote for regularly.
I went to vote. One of my friends was volunteering at the polling place, handing out Democratic sample ballots. I saw her offer them to two people who both said something like, "Never in my life would I want one of those." She said that not everyone was like that.
Timelies all!
Voted this morning and got an "I Voted" sticker, which fell off later in the day. Gary left work early to vote, and is home now.
I ended up not making an offer on the house. Even if the seller accepted the offer my realtor and I discussed, it still would have ended up with an uncomfortably high monthly payment based on what my mortgage agent told me today. Back to trolling Zillow.
Oh Laura, that is so much.
In 5 years it might be in our living room, which would make voting SO EASY, for me at least.
Growing up, a wee Cass had a polling place in her living room. I couldn’t vote but I loved that everyone else could.
Laura, I share your pain
My Dad built the house I grew up in. It’s two miles south of where I live now. Squatters lived there a while after he sold it and it’s honestly a tear down now. The outside doesn’t entirely betray it but it’s so ugly and sad to see a beautiful home destroyed.
It’s hard when people don’t recognize the value we put into our homes. I’m sorry.
Brenda, holy shit! I heard Mary Dixon mention that on my way to work this morning but didn't realize that you were *right there*.
Between candidates (so many judges!) and ballot issues, there were 31 races to vote on, and there is no way I could have done that in 3 minutes. I'm boggled at the 3-minute rule.
So scary, Brenda! Yikes.
The polling place I work at now is just too small -- I think there are 250 people total in the district? So between early and mail voting, we end up with a pretty quiet day.
There were 2 issues to actually be voted on and about half the races only had a Republican running for office.
There was only one candidate for these races: SC US House District 4, SC Attorney General, State Comptroller, US House district 17, Greenville County Auditor, GVL County Solicitor Circuit 13, GVL County Treasurer.
There were 3 candidates for: Governor (Dem, GOP, Libertarian), Superintendent of Education (Dem, GOP, Green Party), Commissioner of Ag (Green Party, United Citizens Party, GOP)
and the State Treasurer contest was between GOP and Alliance Party
