Afternoon Digest

Here is what some of our visitors had to say this afternoon:

• World Citizen reports a “Samiyah!” [endorsed by BMG – Bob] drive-by with loud dance music LOL at Ward 3 Precinct 7 in the South End.
• adistius reported a vote for Stein over the disgraced “chicken” Galvin thanks in part to BMG.
• kakraig writes: “Deval passed by Boloco downtown when I was getting my burrito for lunch. Go Deval!”
• mlek reports a “huge turnout in Chelmsford;” says one polling place had 30 people in line; and says poll watchers said turnout was even larger than in presidential election. Patrick/Murray signholders everywhere, all day.
• Lynne (Left in Lowell): “The people in the office we’re using for GOTV calls have said they have NEVER seen the turnout in the middle of the day that they did when they just went out to the polls this afternoon.”
• jamesvw, who says he “personally knows everyone at the polls,” reports great turnout in the Great Barrington precinct.
• PamW notes the hotline for voting problems: 1-866-MyVote1 and 1-866-OurVote.
• mem from somerville: “Good turnout.”
• EJO says there was, “No sign of the opposition at the polls or elsewhere.” [Memo to EJO: check Washington, DC – Bob]
• Peter Porcupine says “Heavy turnout throughout Cape & Islands.”
• NathanielB: “There was much more people than I expected here in Ward 7, precint 2 in Somerville at around 10:30 this morning.”
• tblade: Dorchester – Ward 17, Precinct 9. “In the 90 seconds I spent walking down Washington Street, I was greeted by no less than three GOTV-mobiles, two SUVs with blue Patrick/Murray signs and megaphones blaring recorded GOTV messages.  A third vehicle, a black, early 90s Mercedes covered with Patrick/Murray stickers and horn blaring with enthusiasm. Very little visability at the polling spot – one lonely Muffy sign and a supporter holding two Deval signs.  It was fairly slow, no line. I cast the 479th ballot at the Codman Square Apartments polling station.”
• Erica (Ward 2 P3 Somerville – Lowell St. Firehouse) “Many fewer than the 45-minute wait, 80-odd-person line we had around the same time of day for the 2004 national election.”
• Michael Forbes Wilcox. “I drove all over hell and gone in Berkshire County, delivering signs, pizza, money — anything that would get us votes.” [OK, OK, “(hey, just kidding about the money!)” – Bob]
  
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