Since we’re still a few hours from any elections returns, here’s a roundup of what’s going on across the nation..
>> Gothamist reports that there have been long lines to vote. Similar reports have been echoed on LAist, SFist and Chicagoist. Chicagoist editor Margaret Lyons even relates her voting experience this morning, which involved slipping and falling in front of her polling place.
>> Chicagoist also writes about Celeste Wroblewski, a Chicago mom who started Republican Switchers, a blog started when Democratic Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia spoke at the Republican National Convention, denouncing his party.
>> Meanwhile, back in New York … Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg is making a shocking prediction: “Kerry will certainly carry the state and New York City …”
And now that we are in the age of the cameraphone, you can snap a photo of your vote inside the booth.
>> Locally, we hear the afternoon voting lines are not as long as morning ones. One reader says:
I just got back from Foundry (16th & P) and the long line from this
morning’s Post article has evaporated. Babak Movahedi and Carol Schwartz are out pressing the flesh, but there are more poll workers than voters at this point, so anyone who was afraid of running into a line has no excuse anymore.
>> So if you haven’t voted, go out and vote. Enjoy a good meal (look for DCist at Chef Geoff‘s downtown for half-price wine and burgers around 7 p.m.) and tune in to DCist tonight for all the latest elections news.
