Election Day - long ballot = long lines

My wife and I went to Town Hall around 10 this morning to do our civic duty at the polls. We saw the Pacifico/Stufflebam camp occupying the sidewalk on the northeast corner of Town Hall. Meantime, the Lindsey/Trotter/Tasker camp (with guest star Paul Stone) had taken up positions underneath a tree close to the mailboxes in the parking lot.

Pretty quiet on polling day, but quiet has been the name of the game this spring.

Inside Town Hall though was a different story. A long ballot (3 council races plus one Texas constitutional amendment, plus 10 Town charter votes) made for extra time at the polls, thus extra time waiting for your turn to vote. Everyone had to use the new-fangled video-screen ballot boxes this year, which slowed things down just a bit.

At 10am, we had to wait about 20 minutes, behind 20 people. When we left the polling room at 10:20am, the line had doubled in length.