did anyone get emotional in the voting booth?

[BklynChick]

I'm so psyched to vote on Tuesday. But I think I may just lose it a little when I pull that lever. :cry: :obama:

[EnviroBat]

1. I'm going to videotape the historic event.

1. For the the significance of it.
2. To make sure no machines try some fuckery on me...

[Catshrink]

10. There are no cameras allowed in the polls in AZ

at least that's what they say. But heck, cell phones have cameras so how are they going to stop it?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Yes

I cried and thanked each of my ancestors for their sacrifices so that I, a woman, was able to vote for our first African-American President. Corny, yes, but that's what I did. I felt I was part of a significant historical event.

[Beaverhausen]

3. I always get emotional but I'm afraid I will make a total fool of myself on tuesday

:cry:

I gotta go buy some waterproof mascara!!!

:hug:

[bigscott]

4. i get choked up

every time i vote - have ever since I was 18. I am proud and awed and scared at the same time!

[VenusRising]

5. I couldn't help crying as I walked away from dropping my ballot in the box.

I want this man to be our President SO BAD!

Here is a photo of my voting hand:



I really wanted to take them all into the voting booth with me when I cast my ballot. :)

[BklynChick]

6. that's fantastic! I may do something like that too.

[blue sky at night]

7. I early voted at the Summit County, Ohio "Job Center"....

in Akron. It is where anyone in our county votes early, and it was very crowded with....you guessed it; DEMS, mostly African Americans and folks were holding their "sample ballots" from the summit co dems. I was glad to be out of my usual lilly white precinct voting location up at home and I really got emotional as I worked through the ballot, and indeed did tear up. I knew I was making history along with my brothers and sisters that day!!!! I worked phones for the dems one night last week and that is what we were pushing, to vote early in OHIO.

so please get out the vote folks....we are going to need them all.




CHange, HOpe, OBama/BIden......!

[Spacemom]

8. I couldn't stop smiling

My vote was on a paper ballot, fill in the circle. I took my time on every bubble. Then I went back and double checked everything. Then I went back again and took a minute to really look at my mark next to Obama/Biden. It feels like waking up from a bad dream.

PRESIDENT OBAMA.

damn that sounds good!

:hi: :bounce: :hi: :bounce: :hi: :bounce: :hi: :bounce: :hi: :bounce: :hi: :bounce: :hi: :bounce: :hi: :bounce:

[Catshrink]

9. I'll be filling out my early voting ballot this weekend.

I always get one but hand deliver it to the polling place on election day. That way I don't have to wait in line and I have plenty of time to think about all the initiatives and referenda on the ballot. Why do I wait so long? Well, a couple of years ago, just before an election, some major corruption was revealed about someone up for reelection. It was real. Although the candidate was a repuke and no way in hell I was voting for him anyway, I decided then to wait.

Nothing will disuade me from voting for Obama.... I need time to look at the downline candidates and issues. They matter too.

And I'm a procrastinator.

[Essene]

11. it's going to be a party in my local Harlem precinct

i cant wait.

i dont expect a whole lot of tears. if anything, i'd expect some random joy and dancing :D

[Jane Austin]

12. I blubbered,

thinking about all the sacrifices and hard work that had brought his name to be on the ballot.

From the well-known civil rights heroes, to the everyday people who have stood up against racist "jokes" and the n-word, to that college in Hawaii that offered a chance to a young African, to an Episcopal bishop who insisted that the new boarding school in his Texas diocese be integrated back in a segregated 1950's, to my grandmother who took some very unpopular public stands in a racially backward east Texas, to my mother, who did the same, and to a friend who died of too-late-diagnosed ovarian cancer who would have given all she had to have been able to vote for Obama - all these people had something to do with Barack Obama's name being on that ballot, and with guiding my hand to fill in the bubble next to it.

I blubbered, and had to be shown where the door was by a much more composed Mr. JaneAustin, although I know he was as moved as I was.

[riverwalker]

13. I cried counting ballots in 04

In Minnesota we (volunteers) verify the paper ballots with the machine count after the election. Seeing the paper ballots with the little ink circled in, with peoples hopes and dreams, moved me to tears. I thought of countries where people can only dream of ever voting. Of the women and minorities in the US who fought to have the privilege to vote. I had tears in my eyes the whole time, it just seemed so sacred, that I was witnessing the bare bones of democracy. That THIS is what it all comes down to.
(and the hand count matched the machine count, it made me proud of Minnesota)

[alsame]

14. I can't vote until Tuesday, but I expect that I will get very

emotional. I cried when I pulled the lever for Obama in the primary, so I can only imagine that I will do the same on Tues.

[GardeningGal]

15. Yes, I did.

Had to compose myself after voting before taking it and putting it in the ballot box. Then I almost lost it again when I was walking to the car.

[mellomel]

16. Voted absentee, but...

I voted absentee and returned my ballot in person to the supervisor of elections, my brother did the same. I got emotional when I was helping my brother with his ballot. He is in his 30s and has mental illness, he doesn't drive and finds it hard to concentrate and understand complex ideas and theories sometimes. I helped him with the ballot (he filled it out but I told him what each amendment meant, etc) and I got weepy doing that. I drove him to the supervisor of elections office yesterday to drop off his ballot (I had returned mine the day before) and I had to drop him off infront and drive around the block because there was no room to park (people were also voting at this site). I felt intense pride when I saw him walk out after dropping off his ballot all my himself.

He really likes Obama and feels as though McCain and Republicans don't care about people like him. He told me that even though he has no party affiliation now he is going to change it to Democrat and said he will never vote for a Republican - he will only vote for a Democrat from now on. When he told me that I got pretty emotional. :)