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Posted by Jasper Zeigler Jr | May 15, 2007 9:48 AM
at around 8:15am in northern liberties voting booth, there was a line of just 2-3 people.
Posted by len | May 15, 2007 9:50 AM
7 am in the N.E. ...NO LINE but I agree, a very long (time consuming) Ballot to get through.
Posted by Steve K. | May 15, 2007 9:54 AM
In Roxborough the voting areas were crowded. There were several teachers and other School District of Philadelphia voters, rushing to vote and get to work.
My colleagues from Roxborough reflected the same scene. Hopefully the voter turn out will continue to be large. Several people had their decisions for the numerous questions ready before entering the booth
Posted by denise | May 15, 2007 9:55 AM
Voted in West Philly around 7:30 pm...one of only two people voting at the time...
Posted by Brian | May 15, 2007 9:56 AM
Correction...Voted in West Philly around 7:30 am...one of only two people voting at the time...
Posted by Brian | May 15, 2007 9:57 AM
I waited 45 minutes to vote, missing the train, and the line wasn't even that long; the ballot is just too big. tell me again why we have to vote for judges, who aren't even allowed to have platforms.
Posted by Rob | May 15, 2007 9:57 AM
From Ward 2...
The Knox/Doc's troops are out in force. There are about 3 electricians (white t-shirts) at each of the three poling places I went to and there are tons young, idealistic kids (red t-shirts) knocking on doors. I "outed" the electricians by saying Local 98 and pumping my fist.
No Brady presence, which is interesting.
Only saw one Nutter person in the three stops.
In other races...
Untermeyer has a person at each place. It is interesting that they are all African-American.
Vern A. has hordes of people handing out water, knocking on doors. This is not a good sign for Franky Di. True confession, I took a water even though I voted for Frank.
Posted by CM | May 15, 2007 10:00 AM
at 12 and Pine polling place, lots of voters. I was 40 in line at 7:45 a.m. I see tons of Michael Nutter support, including the other voters I was waiting with.
Posted by Ali | May 15, 2007 10:03 AM
voted with ease around 8:30am in Society Hill ... little activity outside the polls, 'cept for a very friendly Nutter volunteer...
Posted by Robert | May 15, 2007 10:04 AM
At 7:35 in Fairmount/Francisville, I was voter 32. There was a 20 minute wait to vote, and there was a line of about 10 voters when I was done. The length of the ballot is definitely causing the line.
Posted by Anonymous | May 15, 2007 10:08 AM
6th and Fairmount was rough. Got there at 7:00am, took about a half hour to vote.
Posted by Jordan | May 15, 2007 10:13 AM
Election Day hijinks have begun and the first punch was thrown by the Brady camp. Ken Smukler, at the direction of Brady no doubt, orchestrated a half dozen guys holding Knox = Shark signs outside of the polling place in the First Presbyterian church on South 21st street. Smuklers goons were disrupting the voting process and screaming obscenities at Frank Keel.
Anybody who cares about a fair and clean election process should be absolutely appaled by this.
Posted by Anonymous | May 15, 2007 10:25 AM
I voted at the M-Room in NL/Fishtown. No wait, very organized.
Posted by Anonymous | May 15, 2007 10:32 AM
I voted at the Wallpaper Store on the 700 block of Passyunk Ave. this morning at 7 am. The poll workers told a Republican voter that he could vote both ways using a paper ballot.
There were a handfull of people there - about 8. Democratic campaign workers were standing directly in front of the store handing out fliers to everyone who walked in to vote.
Posted by Cass | May 15, 2007 10:33 AM
Voted at 20 and Catherine at 8am and was # 44 Nutter, Knox, and Fattah all represented. No Brady.
Posted by Joe | May 15, 2007 10:36 AM
I just voted in Old City and turnout looked good. By 8:30 over 100 people had voted. Lines were long becase of how long it was taking everyone to vote. I would note that there was not a single campaing worker for any mayor candidate but Michael Nutter, who had one person.
Posted by mike | May 15, 2007 10:39 AM
I voted at 8:00 at 19th and Ellsworth in South Philly. My partner was #8 and I was #9. Needless to say there was no line whatsoever.
It makes me wonder - are people just not early risers in my neighborhood or are they not voting?
Posted by mike s. | May 15, 2007 10:43 AM
Logan Square
10 peole in front of me, long ballot. I was #130 at 9am. No Mayorial presence at Moore polling place. I encountered Brady supporters on Market street by his campaign headquarters.
Posted by Sarah | May 15, 2007 10:51 AM
Brady's people are openly pulling up "Knox for Mayor" signs all over the city and replacing them with Brady signs. A truck driver saw one crew, wearing Brady shirts, pulled over and asked them to stop. They responded "Go f**k yourself!" Smukler's shark stunt earlier and now this. Class act, that Brady crew.
Posted by Anonymous | May 15, 2007 10:57 AM
I was #63 at 8:15 at the 10/2 polling place on the 9th St Market. Vern and DiCicco troops out in force, but being pleasant. Line was long because people were taking forever to vote. Nutter signs were alone on every door this morning on my block.
Posted by gabe | May 15, 2007 11:02 AM
I was #4 at the Hillman Medical Center for 8-15. One of the two machines was down, I waited for about 5 minutes and a line started forming when I exited the booth.
Posted by Anonymous | May 15, 2007 11:08 AM
Where is the Fattah field? I haven't seen them around at all.
Posted by KZ | May 15, 2007 11:23 AM
RE: Brady's people are pulling up "Knox for Mayor" signs all over the city and replacing them with Brady signs & told objectors to "Go f**k yourself!" Class act, that Brady crew.
SOUNDS LIKE BOB BRADY & his gang of THUGS & DUMMIES. They really are class acts. His supporters really should be ashamed of their votes. All the more reason to vote for KNOX.
Posted by steve | May 15, 2007 11:34 AM
I am not sure what number I was at PA Hospital in Center City this morning at 8:30, but there were about 8 people in front of me when I got in line, and about 20 people waiting when I left. Seemed like a pretty steady stream. No sign of campaign workers at all.
Posted by Jaime | May 15, 2007 11:36 AM
Voted in NE (Comly Elementary School) at 8:00 AM. Very little activity. My father and I were the only ones voting. There were 5-6 Brady people, and he was the only mayoral candidate represented. Very long, time-consuming ballot.
Posted by NK | May 15, 2007 11:42 AM
I also voted at the wallpaper store on the 700 block of Passyunk around 8:30 a.m. I think I was #42, which is pretty good for my polling place. The building immediately next to it was plastered in Brady signs, and there were two people right outside the door of the polling place handing out Democratic ballot flyers. Of course, the flyers instructed you to vote for Brady. I did not. :)
Posted by sweetjohnny | May 15, 2007 11:53 AM
Voted around 8:30 am in Mayfair low turnout. Where are all CHaka's people must have stayed in his neighborhood. Brady was represented along with the electricians for Knox. Those people working the polls for the candidates need to be more more hospitable and engaging. Instead most fo them are leaning on the fence barely awake. This was in Div. 64. Battersby and Ryan Sts.
Posted by Roy Keane | May 15, 2007 11:53 AM
Voted around 8:30 am in Mayfair low turnout. Where are all CHaka's people must have stayed in his neighborhood. Brady was represented along with the electricians for Knox. Those people working the polls for the candidates need to be more more hospitable and engaging. Instead most fo them are leaning on the fence barely awake. This was in Div. 64. Battersby and Ryan Sts.
Posted by Roy Keane | May 15, 2007 11:56 AM
I was at the polling place at Moore College around 7:30. I was there when they announced number 70. There was also a loud announcement identifying the lone Republican in the room (so that the machine could be adjusted). There was some spontaneous laughter at that comment.
The ballot was very long and really slowed things down. When I left the line was much longer than when I arrived.
Posted by A Citizen | May 15, 2007 11:57 AM
I voted at Penn's Houston Hall today around 10 a.m., and it was absolutely empty -- not a single campaign worker or sign in sight. There were three very bored-looking students working the polling place, and they told me that very few people had come by. That site is the location solely for a very large underclassman dorm, almost every single one of whom had already left campus (I was registered there from when I lived there two years ago, and actually stayed in the city today just to vote).
The entire thing took me maybe 5 minutes. I had to fill out a form because my address had changed, and reading those ballot questions did take a while. In the entire time I was there, not a single other person stopped in to vote.
I wonder if the lack of students around will affect the final numbers; I know that Penn students seemed heavily skewed towards Nutter.
Posted by Penn '07 | May 15, 2007 12:27 PM
6ABC is all over the place. There's that van again.
Is 6ABC the only monopoly in town this evening conducting anticipating results on todays voting apparatus.
Jas...
Posted by Jasper Zeigler Jr | May 15, 2007 12:55 PM
Took me about 5 minutes. No line at all.
Posted by Anonymous | May 15, 2007 1:05 PM
Can't walk 100 yards w/o running into another Brady working in the NE
Posted by Non Voter | May 15, 2007 2:46 PM
Ack! How many Bradys are there!!!
Posted by Anonymous | May 15, 2007 3:08 PM
I was planting my Evans for Mayor signs on a nearby grassy corner last night, sharing a few comments with Derek Green's crew who were doing the same thing. This morning, on my way into CC, The two "point signs" had been dropped and replaced with the Brady signs too. I would love to know how much impact random volumes of signage play on the outcome. Is it a percent or two or more?
Posted by TedP | May 15, 2007 3:20 PM
I went to vote at 20th and Fitzwater, my polling place in the 30th Ward, and the man next to me was in the middle of voting when the machine conked out!
The election judge called in a report of a "dead battery," but really, who let's a machine leave to go to the field without a battery or a cord to plug in to somewhere?
The technician or the voting supervisor was behind the machines a lot before hand, something I've never seen anywhere else in any other state or city where I've voted.
Why does there have to be someone touching or messing with the machines as voters go in and out?
Posted by Best election, though, so far in Philly I've been part of! | May 15, 2007 4:28 PM
I called the numbers to report problems, but these are people only concerned with the technical maintenance, not in investigating how something like the above "dead battery" could happen just before 5pm when most working people vote.
Posted by So far, but still a long way to go | May 15, 2007 4:30 PM
I just got back from voting, and I'm in the 39th Ward. It wasn't well organized, it seemed like there were a lot of people who were voting for the first time, and there were about 15 of us waiting for a booth. All told, it took about 20 minutes, but the hold-up was due to the length of the ballot, which I notice a few people have already mentioned. It seemed a little silly to be mulling over mundane issues when there have been 149 homicides, so I didn't even answer the bulk of the questions.
Posted by Megan | May 15, 2007 7:21 PM