Just voted in Collin county. The process was very simple.

[texas_indy]

1. show your registration card to 1st clerk
2. she asks which party and then she checks your card by scanner
3. you sign at the next clerk and she gives you something like a credit card with the ballot for the party you picked
4. you take the "credit card", insert it in the touch screen machine
5. the ballot for the party you picked comes up, you select your pick, and then submit ballot
6. "credit card" pops out and you give that back to last clerk.

No paper trail. No verification to prove how you voted.

Not many republicans were doing early voting today apparently. The guy in front of me stated he wanted the republican ballot and the clerk was so surprised she asked him to repeat it. (I voted at noon and they had opened at 7am) She then said, "we got a republican", to the 2nd clerk and they both laughed.


Texas is Obama country! VIVA OBAMA!!

[tanyev]

1. Hi, texas_indy!

You might be near me--I live in Plano. I haven't voted yet, but I'll do it sometime this week. I work at a location that is an early voting site, and there has been a line every day, even midday.

[texas_indy]

6. Hi tanyev, yep I live in Richardson. I was going to wait till 3/4 but decided

to get it done early since ya never know what could come up to keep you from getting there in time.

And this is one primary I was not going to miss.

What is funny, is that I actually felt a thrill when I voted for him, almost like an electric shock. I know he won't be a prefect president and he will make mistakes during his terms, but I'm so dam excited about what he represents. He will enable us to make such a clean break from the nightmare which * has forced us into. By voting for a black man, who's father isn't even an American, to lead a white majority superpower we are sending the world a message that we want change!! And he can pull in the necessary mandate to enable him to make the changes the US needs!

Affordable health care, out of Irag, make companoes pay if they want to outsource our jobs...........

It is unbelievable that just 40 years ago we had whites only places, and 50 years ago they had to call out the national guard just to enable some black students to go to school. Or 40 years ago blacks would get beaten up and even killed just becasue they wanted to vote.

This is shocking me far more than when the Berlin wall came down, or when the old USSR collapsed.

I was reading some European articles stating how something like this would not be possible in Europe for many years to come.

I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THE FUTURE FOR THE 1ST TIME IN A LONG LONG LONG TIME!! AND I"M SO DAM PROUD OF THE CITIZENS OF THE US!!!!!!!!

[sonias]

2. Collin county is voting heavily Democratic

How cool is that?

AAS 2/25/08
Garcia: Big primary turnout could brighten future for Democrats
(snip)
Big Democratic turnouts in Travis County are to be expected, but the early votes so far are record breaking — 23,132 as of Thursday — making any number of local races difficult to handicap because the big turnouts dilute the influence of the Democratic in crowd.

Where the Democratic surge is truly impressive is in the suburbs that were once the exclusive property of Republicans. In Collin County, at the heart of the Metroplex — a heavily Republican area — county officials recorded the Democratic turnout at 5,021 early voters as of Thursday. That represented an increase of 4,294 early votes in the 2006 Democratic primary.

Here are the numbers through 2/24 from the SOS web site

Collin 378,730 registered voters
Voted as of 2/24
Democrat 15,155 4.00%
Republican 9,756 2.58%

:wow:

Sonia

[timbo_houston_tx]

3. VIVA OBAMA!!!

My partner and I went to vote on Saturday early here in Houston. We went to our normal early voting place and it was an hour wait! We ended up voting downtown! VIVA OBAMA!!!!!

[sonias]

4. Welcome to DU timbo_houston_tx!

:hi:

Every time I see Viva Obama, it makes me want to break out in song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fd-MVU4vtU

Viva Obama! Viva! Viva Obama! Viva!
Nada importa si eres de San Antonio
Nada importa si eres de Corpus Christi
De Dallas o del Valle
De Houston o de El Paso
Lo que importa es que votemos por Obama
Porque su lucha tambien es nuestra lucha
Y hoy que tenemos la urgencia
Para un cambio, vamos todos unidos
Con nuestro gran amigo
Viva Obama! Viva! Viva Obama! Viva!
Viva Obama! Viva! Viva Obama! Viva!

Sonia

[crispini]

5. 'We got a republican"

lol