Bring along your coffee and a book

November 4th, 2008 at 08:58am Linda Grist Cunningham

No matter where — or when — you vote today, you’ll be standing in line with like-minded folks. If you’re like I, in the past you’d swing by the polling place, pop in, color in some circles, chat up the poll workers for a couple minutes and whip back out, usually in 15 minutes from door to door. Not today. As we hear from reporters and voters scattered around the Rock River Valley, this will, indeed, be a record turnout.

The challenge is the number of those little cardboard voting booths. First Free had about eight, and could have used three times that many. Be patient. Please don’t let the lines scare you away. They move pretty quickly, the company is good — and it’s definitely for a good cause.

I got to First Free by 6:20-ish and was downtown in the News Tower before 7:30.

Be sure, too, to check out the photo galleries assistant online news editor Andy Brown is posting to rrstar.com. Whether you’re an Obama or McCain supporter, these collections of Associated Press photos will make you proud to be part of this American system.

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