Since all the cool kids are doing it...
...a few quick words on my own voting experience today.

It was busier than I've ever seen it, and the Kerry buttons were out in force.  At least three of the Kerry-button-wearers apparently knew who I was, because there was a fair amount of scowling in my direction.  (No, I wasn't wearing a campaign button or anything like that.  I didn't spot any eye-rolling -- the possibility of which is apparently worth quite literally making a federal case out of in South Dakota.)

After I got my ballot -- no hassle, not that I'd anticipated any (I'd planned for it, of course, but not anticipated it; it would have been extremely stupid for the Kerryites to slow up a line in a heavily Kerry district by trying to get anybody disqualified) -- I skipped going into the voting booth and just filled out my ballot on the nearest table.  The Bush/Cheney vote is the only one that might be important, but I put in a protest vote against Jean Wagenius, and then voted against all incumbents where there were incumbents, and left the uncontested races blank, and quickly made it to the ballot-sucking machine, which obligingly sucked in my ballot.

And then home.