my four year old and i spent an hour and a half waiting in line to cast my ballot for the presidential primaries tonight. it was chaotic, disorganized, confusing, crowded and hot; the volunteers were overwhelmed and they ran out of ballots. it was
amazing and people stayed pretty happy. the hundreds and hundreds of people, from babies to senior citizens to disabled people in wheelchairs, were all there for the same reason. i met a wonderful family and we really worked together to sift through the confusion, held each others places in line and such. i met some fabulous senior citizens and my daughter led the kid uprising through the gym on her horse, christmas tree shiny ornament. she ran out into the middle of the gym, neighing, and the next thing ya know, six or more kids followed suit...out of the depths of the adult-dominated line they all gathered to play. it was great. there were traffic jams all over the metro tonight, on-ramps were shut down and record-smashing numbers of voters came out tonight...i can not even imagine what election day will be like.
(can you see the line around the gym? and that was after a 45 minute wait...that's where the kid uprising occurred too!)
my four year old and i spent an hour and a half waiting in line to cast my ballot for the presidential primaries tonight. it was chaotic, disorganized, confusing, crowded and hot; the volunteers were overwhelmed and they ran out of ballots. it was amazing and people stayed pretty happy. the hundreds and hundreds of people, from babies to senior citizens to disabled people in wheelchairs, were all there for the same reason. i met a wonderful family and we really worked together to sift through the confusion, held each others places in line and such. i met some fabulous senior citizens and my daughter led the kid uprising through the gym on her horse, christmas tree shiny ornament. she ran out into the middle of the gym, neighing, and the next thing ya know, six or more kids followed suit...out of the depths of the adult-dominated line they all gathered to play. it was great. there were traffic jams all over the metro tonight, on-ramps were shut down and record-smashing numbers of voters came out tonight...i can not even imagine what election day will be like.
(can you see the line around the gym? and that was after a 45 minute wait...that's where the kid uprising occurred too!)
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