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And if you thoght my wait was bad, I just found out that two of my friends waited four and five hours. Some are predicting 70% turnout in parts of Ohio. That rocks. A court decision had to be handed down late in the day to allow alternate balloting (paper) so that people could go home from some precincts in central Ohio at a decent hour. The news showed people still in lines that were at least an hour long and waiting for ballots outside polling places at 9:30! The polls closed at 7:30.

What doesn't rock: the passing of Issue 1, Ohio's constitutional gay marriage ban. Except it goes far enough that it bans all non married couple from receiving benefits. I don't think a lot of people realized what they were voting for. Certainly, I expect Ohio's constitutional amendment will be one of the first up for supreme court challenge, just because of the reach.

What rocks: the passing of the smoking ban. I know a lot of people who didn't support it, but my lungs and head will be much happier.

I'm still holding out hope that Kerry will take Ohio. Last I saw, Cuyahoga (Cleveland), Hamilton (cinci) and Franklin (Columbus) counties weren't reported yet. Heck, there may still be people in line in Franklin County. Florida's results so far are disappointing.

I can't let myself stay up all night.

Please, please, let this all be decided by morning.

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as of 12:10AM

http://election.sos.state.oh.us/results/RaceDetail.aspx?race=PP

smoking ban in OH? as in, cannot smoke in bars and the like? when will it take effect?

I'm not a registered OH voter, i'm registered in PA, so I'm not as familiar with everyone on the OH ballot this time. issue 1 i know though, and am likewise pissed.

The smoking ban is actually just a city of Columbus ban, although apparently Toledo already has one on the books, and the other larger cities are likely to follow suit. Officially it takes effect today, but it won't be widely enforced until Jan. 1.

i obviously need to start going out in columbus more often now. ahhh smoking ban....

cleveland get with it!

I can't believe we watched ONN for our election coverage. (Not primarily, though. We flipped between them, Fox and CNN, figuring we'd get the big picture if we watched those two) Because we did, though, we heard that the students of Kenyon College waited in line until 12:30 to vote.

I too am pissed about Issue 1 and hyped about the smoking ban. I am not so excited that my neighbors two blocks north of us voted to flood my tiny dry town with alcoholics, though.

I hadn't known about that alcohol issue until you wrote about it. I didn't expect that to pass, just based on my (admittedly small) knowledge of the area.

One of the kids at Kenyon was on NBC via phone around 12:30, when it looked like he'd be there until 3, because they were refusing provisional ballots. I found it hysterical that he mentioned specifically that he was supposed to be writing a paper for a German film class. Think his prof will take Tom Brokaw's word as an excuse? :-)

I heard that too. I was with a bunch of TAs/former TAs and we all found that hysterical. The straw poll was we all would accept that as an excuse.

I heard that the Linden Library polling place didn't expect to get people through until past midnight. There was still a line when we drove past at 9:30pm.