Voting seemed to have gotten off to a brisk start this morning, with many polling stations reporting long lines. While this is no reason to start wildly speculating about results in West Philly, it’s at least a good sign.
We will continually update this post throughout the day with bits and pieces of information and observations from around the neighborhoods. Please feel free to write us at editor@westphillylocal.com or tweet us at @westphillylocal with your observations while voting.
Here are some early tweets from this morning:
@WestPhillyLocal @Committeeof70 FYI I was required to show ID because “new voters to a district are required to show ID”
— Abhi (@AbsorbingStates) November 6, 2012
@WestPhillyLocal 36th and Locust opened 37 minutes late because the judge of elections didn't get here on time.
— Jonathan Tannenwald (@jtannenwald) November 6, 2012
https://twitter.com/mabege/status/265808077478035456
@WestPhillyLocal only had to wait about 10 minutes to vote at Kingsessing library. Crowd started to pick up when I left.
— Dan Whang (@called_out) November 6, 2012
@joeldeg @WestPhillyLocal Only polling materials should be inside. Partisan materials must be 10 feet away from polling place door.
— Leah Pillsbury (@maybeleah) November 6, 2012
@WestPhillyLocal voting at the 46/18 meth church around 1130am was smooth and painless
— Ben (suidroot@infosec.exchange) (@suidroot) November 6, 2012
Voting was ezpz! @WestPhillyLocal
— Lauren Foster (@laurenfoste) November 6, 2012
@WestPhillyLocal Waited for exactly 0 minutes at SCHA an hour or so ago.
— Preston Hull (@preston_hull) November 6, 2012
https://twitter.com/estemonte/status/265883665144356865
Also – to lighten things up a little – we asked what might be the best way to work “jawn” into an Election Day tweet. @AdamButler got into this. His responses:
https://twitter.com/a_butler/status/265879399075831808
https://twitter.com/a_butler/status/265879508253569024
https://twitter.com/a_butler/status/265879508253569024
November 6th, 2012 at 2:11 pm
Awesome blogging!
November 8th, 2012 at 1:22 am
Proud to be part of the most democratic-leaning district outside of New York City. Go PA-2!