But the first batch of votes. Annette sends us this picture via her iPhone of Town Clerk Linda Wanat receiving the first batch of votes from Ward 3, (polling Districts 8 and 10).
"Clear the way," Linda said, as she scooped up the pouch.
Update: 8.41 A bleary eyed looking Gene Sully, the Essex County Voting Machine Mechanic, says "everything went smoothly" at all of the 35 polling places. But how was your experience?
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We locked our bikes in front of the firehouse and walked in to find one other person there besides the sweet old ladies running the show. They said that only about a hundred people had shown up there so far (this was at about 6:30 pm). I boggled, embarrassed, at the voting machine for a while until I thought "hey why don't I try just pushing the picture of the box here that doesn't look like a button at all but...aha! a green light lit up!"
It was easy peasy.
Those other 17,000 or so people should be ashamed.