Non-partisan election today. For us that meant school board, county board rep, and state judges. As I said, I double checked w/ the state elections board and we would have to hand-count write-in's for the school board and county board rep since no one was running for those offices. The day began slow enough that we finished counting all of the absentee ballots by the time the first live voter arrived. After that we had voters coming in all through the day - but never had line of more than three people so everyone was pretty happy. Well, except for the guy who had moved with in the town. He was in the poll book and had a valid photo ID so we let him vote but then had him fill out a new registration for his current address. He kept mumbling things w/ 'crap' and 'bogus' thrown in but I never heard them clearly. Instead I thanked him profusely for doing the extra paperwork and offered him a cookie. A lady walked in but when she realized she couldn't just vote a party line left w/o voting at all. After the polls closed we first counted all of the ballots. Good: the number of ballots equaled the number of voters who signed the poll book that equaled the counter on the tabulator machine. Then we started tallying all of the write-ins. That took 2 hours so we didn't get out of the town hall until 10 tonight. Andy and I had already decided not to put everything away nor clean up. We were too brain dead and all of that I can accomplish tomorrow. The town clerk called in the tally counts to the county offices but the paperwork won't be delivered until tomorrow Best thing is for all of us is to get home and get some sleep. Smiling and being pleasant all day is exhausting.
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