The BBC coverage was refreshing! (It was also fun to hear the anchor read "N Hampshire" as "North Hampshire," and to give "Georgia" almost three syllables.)

Their commentators spoke in complete sentences, and when they disagreed, they did so as adults. Even John Bolton, one of my least favorite people in the world, was kept in line with little fuss or bother.

Of course, while watching that on TV, I followed numbers on this site, Salon and the NYTimes.

Voting at my local fire house at 6:15 am took a total of about fifteen minutes. It was maybe twice as crowded as it was in '06.

We still have the lever machines, with an optical machine (I think) off to the side for special needs folks.

Weird, that despite all the tech controversies, I've voted with lever machines since my first official voting in '76, at another fire house a few miles away. In my travels to Washington DC, Connecticut and back, all lever machines.

We even used lever machines in my high school elections, back in '74. Oddly enough when we went to set the machines up, a prior local election's card strips were still in a machine, and that election had one G. Gordon Liddy as a candidate for a DA job. I kept the strip. (Sorry 'bout the digression, but I don't often have an excuse to tell that story.)