Comments on: YOUR INK: Share Your Voting Stories with Us http://thesocietypages.org/girlwpen/2008/11/04/your-ink-share-your-voting-stories/ Girl w/ Pen, founded by Deborah Siegel, publicly and passionately dispels modern myths concerning gender, encouraging other feminist scholars, writers, and thinkers to do the same. Thu, 02 Apr 2015 18:32:47 +0000 hourly 1 By: Girl with Pen » Blog Archive » Some Incredible Voting Tales http://thesocietypages.org/girlwpen/2008/11/04/your-ink-share-your-voting-stories/#comment-450 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:44:36 +0000 http://girlwpen.com/?p=1306#comment-450 […] to everyone who posted their stories here with us today! And if you got em and haven’t posted em, we still wanna […]

]]> By: Jacqueline http://thesocietypages.org/girlwpen/2008/11/04/your-ink-share-your-voting-stories/#comment-449 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:37:49 +0000 http://girlwpen.com/?p=1306#comment-449 I have been walking around with a sense of joy, hope, listening to stories about the experience of voting. Contemplating driving into the city to be outside in Times Square – kinda longin’ to be outside, celebrating with kindred spirits. Sounds like a big outdoor party in Chicago for Barack. I’ve been waiting for folks to take to the streets – seems like tonight’s the night!

]]> By: frau sally benz http://thesocietypages.org/girlwpen/2008/11/04/your-ink-share-your-voting-stories/#comment-448 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:28:59 +0000 http://girlwpen.com/?p=1306#comment-448 And I heard a father say to his 3 year old son, “Look around, you’ll remember today.” Chills!!!

Reading that just made me get teary. Seriously, I don’t think I’ve ever gotten so emotional over this election until today. I’ve been a teary mess all day.

]]> By: Faith http://thesocietypages.org/girlwpen/2008/11/04/your-ink-share-your-voting-stories/#comment-447 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:17:38 +0000 http://girlwpen.com/?p=1306#comment-447 I voted around 11 this morning. No issues at all in suburban NY.
Husband voted at a different location and the person working the table said he was #135 around 9am. Working guy also said that last election they only had about 200 people show up total.

]]> By: Caroline http://thesocietypages.org/girlwpen/2008/11/04/your-ink-share-your-voting-stories/#comment-446 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:15:23 +0000 http://girlwpen.com/?p=1306#comment-446 No lines in my polling place, either (I live in a pretty sleepy little neighborhood of San Francisco) but with 47 positions and propositions to vote on, it sure took a while! I teared up leaving the polling place, too. Here’s hoping…

]]> By: vrutter http://thesocietypages.org/girlwpen/2008/11/04/your-ink-share-your-voting-stories/#comment-445 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:52:27 +0000 http://girlwpen.com/?p=1306#comment-445 Voting in Framingham MA was low key: mid morning there wasn’t a big crowd. Even without the drama of a crowd, I have felt the pump of endorphins all day. Just a smile on my face. It is the hope thing. It has me going. I have this delusion that every single person I see feels as joyful as I do, and in my eyes they are all smiling with the same connection to the day, the moment of having the opportunity to cast an historic vote, and obtain an historic, and game changing result.

]]> By: Deborah Siegel http://thesocietypages.org/girlwpen/2008/11/04/your-ink-share-your-voting-stories/#comment-444 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:58:37 +0000 http://girlwpen.com/?p=1306#comment-444 I voted! Got teary pulling that lever. And I heard a father say to his 3 year old son, “Look around, you’ll remember today.” Chills!!!

No lines at my polling place, but lines down the block and around the corner pouring onto Broadway. No one looked annoyed though, which is unusual for New Yorkers waiting in line. WHAT. A. DAY.

]]> By: Deborah Siegel http://thesocietypages.org/girlwpen/2008/11/04/your-ink-share-your-voting-stories/#comment-443 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:18:35 +0000 http://girlwpen.com/?p=1306#comment-443 I’m having an I-love-NY kind of day: On my way to a morning meeting, I saw a woman walking a dog who was wearing a “Got Hope?” shirt. (The dog, not the woman). On my way back from my meeting, I hopped in a cab and the driver showed me his Obama button and said “Today, I’m only driving people who are voting for Obama!” He was kidding, but I loved his sentiment. He was a Moroccan immigrant who became a citizen 5 months ago, and this is his first election. The lines were too long this morning, so I’m going back this afternoon!

]]> By: anniegirl1138 http://thesocietypages.org/girlwpen/2008/11/04/your-ink-share-your-voting-stories/#comment-442 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:58:14 +0000 http://girlwpen.com/?p=1306#comment-442 I voted absentee a couple of weeks ago because I live in Canada. Around that same time, my dad was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. He refused to get an absentee ballot, insisting that he would cast his vote in person even though we all knew he would not live that long. When I cast my vote, I thought of him and his desire for change and to “vote out all those incumbents” who he felt were responsible for the troubles of America right now. So, I voted as he would have had he lived to see today. He died a week ago but not before I told him I had voted for us.

]]> By: Allison Kimmich http://thesocietypages.org/girlwpen/2008/11/04/your-ink-share-your-voting-stories/#comment-441 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:49:00 +0000 http://girlwpen.com/?p=1306#comment-441 I saw a line of people snaking through the elementary school gym when I arrived to vote. I overheard someone say, “I’ve never seen a line like this here.” I think this election is going to introduce us to democracy’s real potential.

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