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.

Election 2007: Is this how it's supposed to end?

Election Day is this Saturday, and I'll be hanging out a bit at the polls. It's always fun to see neighbors, friends and fellow Flower Mounders.

You tell me, will there be any suspense in the final numbers? You wouldn't think so by the lack of noise being made by the candidates, both the incumbents and the challengers. So far I've only received one flier in the mail -- that from Stufflebam and Pacifico. Nothing from the incumbents. That's kind of surprising, given that we have 2 contested races.

Remember those VU Voters Guides we used to get in the mail? Didn't get one this year.

My mailbox is lonely. Candidates, please send me stuff!