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It was really fun to take my 4-year-old son along with me to “pick the president” as he says it. While standing with me at the voting booth, he loudly asked who I was voting for. I responded by quietly reading the names of the candidates. He responded by loudly asking if I was voting for John McCain (I think Barack Obama was too much of a mouthful for him). I wanted to respond just as loudly “I wouldn’t do that to you, Sweetheart!” Instead, I just laughed. Unfortunately, now he’s telling people his Mommy voted for John McCain.

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I’ve never seen so many people at my polling place (Princeton, NJ)…It was thrilling to see how many were turning out. The elections folks had posted outside the voting place each street so you could look up your district before entering. A great idea with so many first time voters!
My 12 year old son already voted! The school borrowed a voting machine a few weeks ago and every student in the middle school had a chance to vote. Then they tallied and let the students know who won among the students (Obama!)

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We waited about an hour and a half this morning (from 7:15 to about 8:45) with our three-year-old and five-year-old. We always take them with us when we vote, and we vote in every election. My mother is a naturalized American citizen and always made a big deal of voting, so I am continuing the tradition. When people tell me they didn’t bother to vote, I always say that I hope they like the candidate I have selected for them!

My son pulled the lever one way, I flipped the toggles, and my daughter pulled the lever the other way. Then they did it again in the booth with my husband.

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I worked the polls today as an Assistant Registrar of voters in one of out three voting precincts. It was a very sucessful day for voter turnout and was surprised to see how many new voters turned out. What I really would like to see is the passion for voting continue on all levels for both local and state. Remember….all politics are local.
As for taking your children to vote, I am all for that, within the process voting of course. I did have one instance at the polls today where a child came ion with political stickers all on her jacket and had to ask the mother to remove them or turn the coat inside out. She was not happy with me and had a few words but needless to say this was the
ONLY issue we had.
I am going to post more about my experience on my blog.

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And so for the 2nd time I have gone purposely to the polls with my son (3+) in tow.
We were early and everyone in line was ready to do their part and smiled warmly when they saw him and he proceeded to tell all ” My mommy is here to vote!”.
I made it a point to go in person rather that send in my ballot I had received weeks ago.
It was really too early to tell whether there were going to be lines. We were ballot #3 registered at the bin.

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Today I took my son (21 months) to the polls for his first election. All morning long we talked about going to vote and how important it was. When it came our time we packed up some snacks and toys and headed off for what we thought might be a long time. We timed it just right….no big line, no long wait, one very important vote cast! I am grateful to have shared this part of history with my son.

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Took both my children to the polls and, while waiting in line, nursed my newborn who was very hungry

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My husband and I went to the polls together with our 23 month old son. We had no line, which was helpful. Our son sat happily in his stroller playing with his car, sitting outside the booth while I voted. He pointed to me a couple of times and said “Mama!” We have spent a lot of time at home over the past several months talking about Obama to the point where our son knows his picture and the “O” sunrise symbol and points at either and says “Ama!” (he says the end of every word he knows.)

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We took our 3 year old daughter with us to drop off our absentee ballots. She was so excited! I think maybe she thought we were going to see Barack Obama. She asked about him when we got there! I said, we’ll see him on TV tonight. Hopefully he’ll be our next president!

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I voted today and was a little disappointed that where I vote, there was a small sign for Obama and no one was out there supporting him, plenty of Republican supporter waving their signs..I live on the South Shore of MA in a town called Middleboro, I was really surprised..

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