I voted …

… and it took such a brief period of time that I didn’t even get an opportunity to take a picture.  When we arrived at around 10 am CT this morning, half of the booths were empty and no one was waiting in line for their ballots.  We even had parking in the lot available to us, which is quite out of the ordinary on Election Day.  Of course, the last time I voted, I did it at 7 am when the polls opened so I could get to work, an issue that no longer arises.

How did we vote?  I’m certain you know that I voted for John McCain, Norm Coleman, and John Kline for the national offices.  I voted against an increase in the state sales tax and a city bond issue to purchase land from a golf course, although the First Mate voted the other way on the latter.  (It was a tougher issue than it sounds; the city blocked the owner from developing the land into residential housing and didn’t compensate him for the loss.  I think the city should just allow him to develop the land rather than pay him $10 million to buy it.)

My friend and radio partner Mitch Berg told me a few years back that he always finds a way to vote for himself as a write-in candidate for a local office or a judicial post as a means of ensuring that his ballot got counted.  If he sees a vote for himself in the final returns, he knows it worked.  We decided to write me in for the city council, so anyone in Eagan who wants to make my life miserable can write me in as well.  If I win, well … I get what I deserve.

We’re hearing that turnout is heavy here in Minnesota, which is no surprise, since we do better at turnout here than any other state in the nation.  That doesn’t mean that you can’t get in quickly, if you plan well.

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