That was fairly painless.  Awoke at 6:00AM, walked out of the house at 6:30 to the polling place a mile away.  Got in line at 6:45 with about 200 people in front of me.  At 7:00 sharp the line began inching forward and by 8:00 I was ushered to a voting station.  By 8:10 I was on my way home.  (To my chagrin, I noticed a LOT of state and local incumbents running unopposed, so I wrote myself in to “challenge” the incumbent Republican for our Georgia House of Representatives seat.  I’m sure they’ll get a laugh out of that one.)

Strange, but not a single cop in sight, not even to direct traffic.  Not that I expected rioting in peaceful, civilized Roswell, Georgia, but still. 

The only drama I witnessed was totally non-election related.  The woman (a pregnant woman, for what it’s worth) standing directly behind me got a call on her cellphone that obviously wasn’t good news (”Hello.  What?  What?  No.  No!  When did this happen?  It happened just now?  Oh, no!  No!”)  A few minutes later she called someone else.  Lots of uncontrollable sobbing and indecipherable muttering.  Not that I meant to eavesdrop, but I was was standing two feet away and was more or less trapped.  I eventually gathered it was some elder of the family had who died overnight, but not entirely unexpectedly.  Anyway, she quickly composed herself and stayed in line another 45 minutes to vote.  What a trooper (I guess).

So now we wait. 

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