[Leica] Don's PAW election

[nicholsj at edge.net (Jim Nichols)]

Don,

Reminds me of the line I stood in for 3 1/2 hours yesterday to get a flu
shot, except that our line was made up of old folks like me.  We voted
early the previous week with no delay at all.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN


> [Original Message]
> From: Don Dory <dorysrus@mindspring.com>
> To: <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: 10/30/2004 7:41:45 AM
> Subject: [Leica] Don's PAW election
>
> Some of you will recall that the US is undergoing our quadrennial
> presidential elections.  I took advantage of the opportunity to vote
> early so that my staff could all vote at the normal time.
>
> It seems that many thought in a similar fashion as this was the line
> when I joined in:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album90/longline
>
> Many of my co-voters came prepared to multi-task while waiting:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album90/workethic
>
> The people in line next to me were a pretty literate bunch, one was the
> recently retired dean of the college of arts and sciences at one of GA's
> nearby universities and another was a graduate student at GA Tech.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album90/literatebunch
>
> Some in the line were working just as hard as the business class.  This
> mother was working with her daughter on counting skills; one leaf, two
> leaves...
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album90/childrehelppassthetime
>
> Chikfila, which began in Atlanta, ran a series of cars to refresh the
> coolers brought lunch to the line:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album90/chikfila
>
> After about three hours, people had settled in for the remainder of the
> wait:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album90/readyforthewait
>
> And, after almost four hours, we were still waiting:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album90/waiting
>
> Most of the counties around me were better prepared than Fulton, where I
> live; the usual wait was about one hour in the surrounding counties.  I
> have to believe that there is going to be a massive turn out as GA is
> not in play on the presidential level, but a wide swath of citizens were
> willing to wait a long time to vote.
>
> You do not see any truly senior citizens in the lines as they were
> brought in at the front of the line so that they did not have to wait.
> The crowd agreed that that was a good idea.
>
> Enjoy, exercise your right to vote, and have a great week.
>
> Don
> dorysrus@mindspring.com 
>
>
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