Your blogmeister just got back from his neighborhood polling place, Polk Elementary School, at 27th and Tyler. The school cafeteria/auditorium was efficiently laid out, with three alphabetically-divided sign-in tables at the entryway, and 16 voting machines set up in a semi-circle around the periphery. The Polk School site serves three voting precincts.The nine election judges were courteous and business-like, and processed our polling book entry and voting card issuance quickly. One additional worker stood in the center of the auditorium keeping an eye out for open voting machines, and gesturing to voters in line as soon as a machine was vacant.
It was evident that the poll workers at this individual polling place had been adequately trained, with particular emphasis on handling a large crowd. The election workers were moving the line along, leaving little time for chit-chat with other voters. By the time your blogmeister had returned his card to the ballot clerk around 8:00 a.m., 153 voters had already cast their votes. The whole process took about six minutes for us.
All in all it was a satisfactory experience; but we're also wondering about other voters' experiences.
In that context, we've decided to set up an open thread to find out how other Weber County Forum readers regarded their own trip to the polls.
For our readers' information, by the way, we'll post another election article this evening, with hot links to State and County real-time results. Look for that new article around 8:00 p.m.
The floor is open. Talk about the election... or whatever you want to talk about.
