Delegate Kipke-

Please explain on how Question H is a technical amendment - it provides a month-long recess to the County Council where none existed before. It was proposed and approved by the entire council fundamentally allowing them to increase their benefits by providing them with a paid month's vacation, this amendment both increases their pay and provides benefits that never existed prior to the amendment change.

Where is the technicality - I only see a conflict of interest of the seven Council members proposing and approving an increase in their pay and benefits at the same time they have asked all other county employees, including teachers, police officers, and firemen to take furlough days and reduce their pay and benefits.

Additionally, all county residents have been asked to pay more for curbside trash collection while having these same services cut in half - and THE COUNTY COUNCIL ASKS VOTER TO APPROVE THEIR PAID ONE-MONTH LONG VACATION.

Please, I implore you to explain the TECHNICAL change and address why all county residents and county employees have had benefits and services cut while the COUNTY COUNCIL HAS PROPOSED AND APPROVED this amendment INCREASING THEIR PAY AND BENEFITS.

Councilman Fink-

Please explain your recommendation in the Pasadena Voice that County Voters vote FOR QUESTION H providing you with a month-long vacation fundamentally increasing your pay benefits.

Don't you think you have a conflict of interest in providing recommendation to voters on Question? Particularly because you have served a a member and chairman of the county council at the same time all other county employees, including teachers, police officers, and firemen have had furlough days and asked to reduce their pay and benefits.

Where are your ethics Chairman Fink? Recommending voters approve an increase in pay and benefits to you and the other council members.

Just great... more cars on the road while the kids are out trick-or-treating.

I'm all voted up!

I voted early today at the West County Library, bringing with me the paper specimen ballot I received from the Anne Arundel County Board of Elections. In past elections I have voted in, the specimen ballot pages exactly matched the pages of the electronic ballot.

That is not the case this election.

Pages one, two and three of the specimen ballot corresponded exactly to pages one, two and three of the electronic ballot. But beginning at page four, the pagination on the electronic ballot began to differ from the specimen ballot.

Specifically, Questions 4, 5 and 6 are on page four of the specimen ballot, but only Questions 4 and 5 are on page four of the electronic ballot. This means that Question 6 is on page five of the electronic ballot in the place where Question 7 is on the specimen ballot.

I pointed out this discrepancy to an election worker and she said it was because of spacing issues that the electronic ballot differs from the specimen ballot.

It’s curious that the ballots began to differ at the point of the most contested questions on the ballot. In the future, such discrepancies should be avoided in order to forestall accusations from those who believe the definition of paranoia is “seeing clearly what is going on.”

Where is the closest polling place to Pikesville?

Jamie: Here's the address for the Randallstown Community Center early voting polling place, and more voting information. -Janet http://patch.com/A-zb0z

I've personally tried 4 times and can't get in to park. Just trying took a total of 1-1/2 - 2 hours. Been told the line now is 2-4 hours. Is this a joke? It's been like this Saturday, Sunday, Wednesday, closed Monday and Tuesday. !n 40 years of voting haven't seen anything like it. And I've hear it's just getting worse.

With absentee voting you have to sigh an affadavit that you don't have access to a voting poll on available days. That would in fact be a lie, if the issues are long lines or long waits in the cold. You would in fact have to lie unless you were in fact out of town. Need to speed up the process - more machines or ballot boxes / more check in spots / more parking places / or more polling places. I've read the other locations are just as backed up. I have notified the PG county board of elections who've claimed they added more machines, but there must be another bottleneck they can't or won't deal with. They offered absentee balloting if I would go to their offices on trade center but I would have to sign an affadavit and lie - not sure if my ballot would in fact count.

Just voted at Honeygo. Got there at 8:45, left at 9. Short line. One of the judges said there were a few people in line at 8 this morning, but by 9 there was no line.

After 5 attempts over the course of three days, I decided to stick it out and stand in line to vote at the West County Library because this trip I actually got a parking place. Got there at 8:30 PM on Wednesday night with at least 100 people in front of me. Costumes were optional. I did not get out of there until 10:30 PM. There are only 12 (NOT KIDDING) machines at that location. How were the calculations done to estimate the number of machines required? I think someone forgot to factor in the extra time required for this unprecedented ballot.

The people in line who had not looked at a sample ballot and were not prepared held up machines for 20 minutes or more. If we have to continue to use voting machines, then how about a couple of fast lane EZ-VOTE machines for those who come in with their sample ballot marked and ready to vote and go? Set a timer!! How difficult is it to make the voting screens and sample ballot match, too?

If the state can pony up funds to pay for 3700 slot machines, don't you think they could purchase a few more voting machines? Very poor planning for this election. Inadequate space, shameful lack of parking, and inadequate equipment. Kudos to the considerate and efficient volunteers working the polls. They are doing the best they can with a very poor setup at West County Library. And a big round of applause for those folks who actually came out to take advantage of the early vote and stood in lines for hours in order to do it.

My wife went to Bowie yesterday got in line at 6:45 and voted (opens at 8) and was out at 8:15. I asked her how the line was at 6PM when I wanted to go - hoping it would thin for Halloween. She asked someone who just left said it was 4 1/2 hours. My issue is I'm on call this week at work and to vote have to keep a pager, phone and PC available. If the line is over ~ 1/2 hour have to keep all that on me and if paged would have to leave. It just shouldn't be that long. Voted early many other places and the longest was less than 20 minutes. And you could park.

Voted at Honeygo last night. 90+ minutes in line. Not counting the 20+ minutes to make a left turn into the park, the way they had lanes blocked off in the north bound side made it impossible for cars to make the left turn into the park!

I'm grateful for early voting, but seems with the turnout they could have more than 14 stations for voting.

Either way, just happy to have excercised my right to vote.

I just voted in Harford Co at McFaul. I was in and out in 30 minutes. (including parking!)

Decided to vote after work yesterday at Landover (PG County sports facility near FEDEX FIELD). Got there around 4 PM - Parking for non-handicap tag voters was at FEDEX field about 1/4 mile walk. Got in line - looked to be around 100 people to the door. After 50 Minutes got inside the building to a long hallway that led to the lobby. Around 150 -200 people in that line. Another hour. Third line serpentined in lobby - about 50 minutes. 4th line outside voting room - 15 minutes. Voting room lined up to get vote pass and sign for pass and ticket. Waited in line for ballot another 10 minutes. Voting took < 5 minutes. There were 24 machines with 1 disabled. Total Nearly 4 hours. Left just before 7:40 PM. The line was longer outside than when I started. To vote this election, counting driving to Bowie Library and being unable to park 3 times for ~ 2-3 hours driving and the over 4 hours in lines to vote - the early voting took nearly 7 hours. I've never spent in 40 years of voting over 45 minutes in line in 4 other states. The only advantage to the Landover voting spot was 3 hour of the line was indoors and there was paring - 10 minutes walk away. I can only surmise they really DONT want citizens to vote here.

I wonder if people realize that Tuesday the 6th is the normal voting day? There is no reason to wait for 4 hours. On Tuesday, ALL polling places will be open, not just the few that have been open for early voting.
For example, in Anne Arundel County, there are **5** early voting places. On Tuesday, there will be (by my own count from the Board of Elections website) ***194*** polling places open.
It wasn't so long ago that early voting wasn't even a thing... we all voted on Election Day, Tuesday, which is why there are 194 places.
I am sure I will probably have to wait (4 years ago, I waited about 10 minutes at the peak time of 5:30pm), but I am CERTAIN that I will not have to wait for 4 hours. Early voting was designed as a convenience for those who are unable to vote on Election Tuesday---not as a be-all, end-all time to vote.

Why are people voting early? If you are choosing to vote early and complain about the lines can you not plan to vote on the day when the infrastructure is setup to handle a larger number of voters?

It took me about two hours to vote in Bowie yesterday. I actually found that people waiting in line were in great spirits and no one around me complained about the wait. I think that's because people who vote early often do so by choice - they choose to stand in those lines. There was a real sense of camaraderie and excitement.

My situation is that I'm on call and on any day may be in one of 4 locations 1-1.5 hours from home. I've missed voting on election days because of that, Early voting gives me a chance to make sure I don't have to miss. In Texas they had early voting with no lines. Here for some reason early voting seems to be a GOTV goal for some compaigns. I resisted 4 times becaus of the long outside line in BOWIE and NO parking - jammed solid. The Landover line looked much smaller, If I had known it was over 3 hours I would have passed and taken my chances on election day. After the initial hour in line there was no indication how much longer it would be despite asking the 'event staff' there who didn't understand why someone would be concerned about time. I did get paged in line and was nearly requried to leave, but the issue was able to be handled by phone this time. I regret the wait, the time wasted and that a means to allow voters an alternative has been co-opted to show a strong initial surge for a candidate or campaign wasting time for a lot of people. Having gone thru it I estimated there were 600-700 people in the line waiting nearly 4 hours. What a waste of time and resources for a society.

I voted at Towson University on Thursday morning. I arrived at 7:45 am. There where 7 people sitting comfortably in the lobby waiting for the Poll to open. I was out by 8:15 am.