Voting Accomplished, Hopefully

It’s 10:30 a.m. and I’m back home after voting – I think.

I filled out an eight-race ballot at my polling place inside the Southmont Borough Building, but the scanners still are not working. So, I was instructed to feed my ballot into a slot that led to a “lock box” beneath the scanner.

Presumably at some future time my ballot will be scanned successfully and my votes duly recorded. I can only hope that will be the case.

Scanners also were not working at my son’s Westmont polling place so he performed the same ritual.

I had no lines whatsoever at my polling place and only one of those customary candidate spokesmen standing outside, a young man representing Frank Burns. I relieved him of the nail file he offered me and went inside.

Later, while picking up my son at his voting site, there were lines and I had a brief wait. Outside was Frank Burns himself and I took the opportunity to introduce myself to him as a Burns Republican. We had a nice chat about the area political, healthcare and media scene.

A cousin had reported to me that he faced no lines while voting very early today in Somerset County and, imagine this, no technical glitches, either.

Now, we sit back and await results.