Election Day: What If Jacksonville Suddenly Woke Up?

[thelakelander]

I saw about five people placing their vote at my polling location this morning around 8.  When I signed my name, I was the only person with "D" in their last name to do so, at least at that point.

[uptowngirl]

I take my child with me- so will be voting around 3PM, but the numbers they are reporting are sad, 26K Really? Shame on Jacksonville!

[JSquared]

I was at my polling location right at 8, and there were about 10 people there not including the poll workers.  Only one other person in the J's, and they had early-voted.

[Dog Walker]

26K only?  There are more election signs posted around than that!

We actually have a bunch of new, good people running; choices for once not just "lesser-of-two-evils".  I actually had trouble choosing between some of them this time.

[uptowngirl]

First Coast news in reporting 26K as of Noon, and I beleive 45K in early voting, so with 800K + residents it is a pretty sad showing.

[danem]

Do these turnout figures count early voting?

[JeffreyS]

Easier for the MetroJacksonville.com folks to be a real power player.

[Shwaz]

Just went to my poll location and found I was moved  - Now I'm going to have to leave work early to beat closing time.

[buckethead]

Beautifully written essay, Stephen.

That could be the signature speech for Jacksonville.

More people need to read it.

Heck... It isn't at all right or left. It's an essay about our fair city, and the contributions made to humanity right from our streets.

We need to infiltrate the chain email circuit, and give it some exposure.

Copied, pasted, forwarded.

[wsansewjs]

I need someone who have a REALLY good voice, a great photo collection of Jacksonville's contribution and history, and time to create a great video based directly from the article.

Who do I need to get a permission from to create this video using this article and photos?

-Josh

[JeffreyS]

I could see that movie maybe a Chad Hendricks film.

[stjr]

My precinct normally has one of the higher turnouts during elections.  Today, at 8:15 AM, I was the only one there.  The poll workers said it wasn't much better before I arrived.  And, they confirmed the early voting for the precinct was also light.

For anyone who thinks their vote doesn't count, this election could show otherwise.  If only 10% of the electorate (516,000 registered) votes, and there is only a 1 % difference between a winner and loser, then about 500 votes out of some 850,000 or so citizens in Duval County could determine the county wide races.  For City Council districts, it could be less than 35 people.  Given that I have influenced at least 7 votes today, I feel like a king maker!  

[wsansewjs]

I could see that movie maybe a Chad Hendricks film.

Chad makes great films, but I think his style would not suit it well unless he is up for the challenge to go out of his box.

-Josh

[Lucasjj]

WJXT is reporting an expected turnout of 26%. Using your 516,000 figure above that would be 134,000 people. Going off of the number of early voting, absentee voting, and voting though 10:30 this morning, 71,000 have voted so far. That would put us at the half way point roughly.

My fiance and I are voting this evening after work. Do more people generally vote then? Otherwise the turnout will be closer to 20%.

[danno]

I just had 4 different co-workers on 3 different occasions ask me what I was voting for when they saw my I voted sticker.

I said really??  They had no clue.  Funny thing was that they were in the break room talking about American Idol.