As of 6:20 this morning, my vote is cast. They open at 6:00 AM here in New York State. I woke up around 4:30 and couldn’t get back to sleep, so I decided I should just go earlier than I’d originally intended.

There was a minor glitch caused by a voter going to the wrong machine. This didn’t spoil the ballot, it just required some corrections to be made to the record so as not to mess up the audit trail. There are two machines per district, and two sign-in books (A-K and L-Z), and each book goes to a specific machine. At the end of the day, they compare the counter on the machine to the book. As such, they have an exception that will need accounting for, but it should not be a problem.

We still use lever machines here in New York, and so there are no electronic glitches, no butterfly ballots, no hanging chads, no touch screen misalignments. They work perfectly, as far as I know. Besides that, by being familiar with the machines, and having downloaded and studied a sample ballot before hand, it only took me about a minute to vote, including checking three times that I had pulled the right levers.

I wish that today could be so uneventful for the rest of the nation; alas, I fear this will not be the case.