wear green at the polling place. See if you can't annoy the poll watchers. If they become too obnoxious, you can request your local PD to remove them.

but I hope I'm wrong.

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My polling place is busier than I've ever seen it and the line is out the door! They say it's moving along pretty well, but I have all day and live a 3-minute walk away, so will try again later.

WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange's statement today on the US election https://t.co/Q6KEChqm1B pic.twitter.com/ZdZlolZJMl

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) November 8, 2016

Click the link in the tweet to read the entire statement.

Give me a break.

I know this will annoy some here, but I wrote in Bernie Sanders since I'm in Vermont and it will count.

Very few Democrats got my vote today, including Patrick Leahy. I chose Progressive/Green/Liberty Union when available. Spaceman Lee got my vote for governor.

Interestingly enough, on my 2-mile walk to the polls, I saw not a SINGLE sign for Her Highness -- including outside the door. I found that encouraging. There were 8 or 9 along the route for Trump.

Now we wait ...

I'm grateful to have the C99 community today.

I voted along with more people than I usually see at the polling place here in California. I think there will be a larger than expected turnout even if millennials don't vote as the polls say they won't. I announced to one of the poll workers that "never have so many been offered so little" and she smiled and covered her mouth with her hand like a gag. I had on my hat with the Green Party button on it and no one challenged it. There was even the first exit poll I have ever seen outside. This disgusting display of corruption seems to have motivated people. I just hope they are motivated to throw the rascals out. I voted for no Democrats or Republicans for the Federal offices but did vote for two Democrats for State Senate and Assembly because they vote well and truly left.

Jill Stein, cheerfully voted against Sheriff Joe Arpiaio, for legal weed and a small increase (still not enough) to the state minimum wage. We also have a progressive running for Maricopa County Attorney named Diego Rodriguez who has a slim chance at beating the right-wing a-hole in office now, and I was happy to cast a vote for him.

Locally, we might actually finally rid our state of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. That alone makes this election important.

It was dead in 2014 too. Maybe about 5 people of all ages, including Millenials. Turned in my mail-in ballot and got a sticker. Voted Green where I could.

Saw this on r/WayoftheBern this morning and just had to share it. Please, please, please let them get to 5%.

turn out good, poll workers efficient, moved right thru. Voted Stein and independents where I could. Rejected all the pork belly referendums except for a stronger ethics commission. There were some exasperated folks, some nervous tension evident. One old guy tripped at the door and busted his forehead on the pavement. Must be the high threshold for getting in? Hope for the best!

in NY where I could. A young lady handing out flyers for a city initiative asked was I going to vote? I wave my scarf and said Green! Button would have been better. The initiative was to spend more money, like3xas much on...street paving! We have quite adequate street maintenance here and I can think of lots of better places to put extra money such as expanded public transit.

Took a little cruise by my polling station on my way to riding my bike to have lunch. Spotted a little patriotic-looking sign on the window of the bar restaurant at the corner. They were offering a shot to anyone who came in with an "I Voted" sticker. Voting in America has apparently now become like rewarding children for doing their homework by putting a star at the top of their paper.

Just now as I'm speaking this into my phone I came across the first-ever Clinton Kaine yard sign seen in these parts. Turning the corner on to the next block so are you a hipster with the ubiquitous sticker on his sweatshirt. This morning when I went to reyrieve the car parked blocks away late last night I saw something I have not seen anywhere yet: a Johnson sticker on the back of someone's car.

When I got to the school where I have cast my vote for the last 10 years first thing I see as a police officer walking the sidewalk in front of the entrance. I'm aghast, and ask him if he's done this before. Kind of mindlessly he says they have. I said I've never seen a police officer inside or at the polling location ever before in my life. He walked back his answer and says that yeah we are stationed at polling places today. So I asked him if the precinct has assigned offices to every polling location. He said yes. I begin a conversation about media fear-mongering and say it is completely overblown. He sort of agreed, and says if something's going to happen it'll probably happen in Manhattan anyway. I say nothing's going to happen, I'm sure of it. He then begins to explain, after I ask, that the police department is like its own little country. Asked to explain he says they can find anybody at any time if they need to, saying that a hit-and-run driver if someone had the license plate would be caught around the block almost literally. Didn't ask him to elaborate but he seemed assured they were in possession of lot more than that.

Coming upon the Thai restaurant saw a woman walking down the street with an I'm with Her button. Also now, a little later on in the day, I'm seeing those annoying little stickers everywhere (the bigger size and preponderance of them creepily reminds me of the ubiquitousness of how the American flag began appearing on every bus, subway and public space post 9/11, no doubt a Karl Rove propaganda coup. The $hills only steal from the best!).

An hour later in sitting having tea outside enjoying the day reading and typing, a Moroccan woman activist I know calls my name. She's with her daughter and a friend. Says she just came from voting. I ask for who? Says her. I smile and point to my Jill button, her? No, she smiles back, Hillary. Maybe the Muslim bashing became too much for her. I didn't ask.

As the sun begins setting over NYC I begin to wonder if voting today is even worth it, in this Matrix climate.This bizarre coming-out party is especially disorienting and depressing, because this district was one of the very few in NYC to go for Bernie.

I ruminate on all I've seen in the last couple of hours out and about. I think, you all lacked the courage of your convictions to stand in public support of your shifty, horrible, deeply loathed candidate until today. Weasels.

Indicative of this, the only bumpersticker I saw in my area up until today was, check this out, some phony who had three Clinton/Kaine stickers on the back window of the car. But they were TAPED onto the insides of the windows. Now THAT'S commitment. Sort of like the profusion of nauseating gold Support Our Troops magnets on the backs of middle class folks who didn't want to mess up their precious cars by putting a permanent sticker on them.

Just like true Neoliberals. No conviction, because their consciences are a fraud.

(Dictated into my phone and hastily edited)

YUGE difference from this morning, when they were mobbed about 10 AM. Voted Jill, that was fun! No downballot Indies or progressives, so voted Dem. Four slots for soil and conservation district supervisors and only two people running, so I voted for them and then wrote in my friends, LOL! Someone may have a new job tomorrow they didn't apply for!

Four "officials" at the polls so I asked them who they represented etc. They are two Dems and two Reps and they say that's what they always do. So one more way Trump is a moran - there are already Repugs monitoring the voting. No DOJ observers here, they thought there might be some downtown.

They did tell me that they had "technical difficulties" earlier, the machines weren't recording the votes properly! But supposedly they fixed that. Fingers crossed that they did fix it, not just inadvertently help the hackers better hide their work.

Two black, two white monitors. Considering there are about a dozen blacks total in Lexington, that's pretty impressive minority representation! (I kid, we're about 81% white; similar sized cities are about 45% white though)

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