Watching all of this..

My husband was precinct chair during the 2008 Democratic primary. Our polling place ran out of ballots 2 hours before the polls closed. We had people hand write their ballots and then tallied all of them in front of every person there. Keep in mind, we were dealing with a large precinct that is primarily African American. Barack is on the ballot. My husband and I are white and we’re counting the votes. There must be complete transparency and every single vote must be counted. It should always be that way but this community even more so, especially when we had to go off script to get everyone counted.

We were counting until 11:00 p.m. No one was going home, period. When we announced Obama had won the cheering was enormous. Then the party started in the parking lot. :)

One of the best nights of our lives. But man, we had to do it right. My husband got home, promptly threw up, and slept for 2 days.