Election Day

It's hard to avoid the jitters and excitement of the US elections even over here in the UK. We're waiting with baited breath to hear the results, but we're not feeling very optimistic. Given the look of the polls (a close race), memories of the "slightly criminal" 2000 election, mishandling of absentee ballots this year, and new reports of vote-rigging in the swing states, the outlook is quite bleak.

On the BBC right now, there is live coverage of the Clintons casting their votes, the old-fashioned way, in a voting booth. I wonder who they voted for? Now cut to Kerry arriving in Boston at the end of his campaign trail.

I, of course, cannot vote because I am not a US citizen. However, Kristen sent in her absentee ballot a week or two ago. Then we heard the news that Broward County has "mishandled" 58,000 absentee ballots (a huge percentage of people never received them). If that happened on outgoing votes, what happens to the incoming votes? Will Kristen's vote even be counted?!?

So, to say we're eager to find out the results, is an understatement. However, due to the time difference, the earliest we can find out is around midnight tonight. There is an election results special tonight on the BBC at 23.50, but I don't know if we'll stay up the late! Maybe I will.

-RP-