Primary Elections 2012

Today was the Alaska Primary Elections.  Luke and I woke up before 5 a.m.  (Well I woke up before 5...Luke didn't have to.  He doesn't need as much time to get ready...oh to be a guy!)

By 5:40 a.m. we were off to South Anchorage to work at a polling location.  (These are pictures of the location...but taken in the evening...not the morning...)

By 6:30 a.m. we (and the other 3 workers-Lindsay, Cherie, and Patty) were setting up our voter registers and ballots on the tables, getting ready to process voters.  (And no voting experience would be complete without an "I voted" sticker at the end.)

Polls opened at 7 a.m. and didn't close until 8 p.m.  After that we had to make sure all the numbers balanced, and pack up all our stuff.

By 9:30 p.m. we had turned in all our data and equipment to the elections office.

Phew!  What a day!  It even included a power outage between the hours of 3-4 p.m.  But that didn't stop us.  We actually had quite a lot of people come and vote during that time.  We did our best with flashlights and cell phones and we moved some polling booths under the emergency lights on the exit signs.

This is what running a polling location in the dark looks like:

 Yes, we are awesome (just in case you were wondering...)!

We all took guesses on how many people would come and vote at our polling location.  Cherie guessed 410, and we all thought she was crazy.  Well...she totally won!  We had 432 or something like that.

It was a really fun day!

Next stop, November.  We will be back in the same place.  Hopefully without the power outage!