Our Fun at the Polls

When my parents were finished voting today, a reporter approached us and actually interviewed my parents! How Cool!!!! Here is the article he wrote!

November 04, 2008

"Nine voters" start a rush

Things were quiet at H.B. Zachary Middle School when Greg and Candace Sabo showed up with their seven kids in tow.

"Nine voters," he joked.

It was the start of a rush for Precincts 2088 and 2110, which had logged a total of 248 ballots just before school let out for the day. The day had started with a line that ran about 25 yards out of the school's main entrance, just reaching the red fire lane where several buses lined up at 3:30 p.m. to pick up youngsters at the school.

Things quickly slacked off after people left the school to go to work.

"Right at high noon we had no line, which surprised me," said Fred Koechley, presiding judge for the two precincts.

There were plenty of spaces in the faculty parking lot, part of which had been cleared to handle an expected crush of voters. The scene wasn't like Crossroads Mall, where Koechley, 57, of San Antonio encountered large numbers of voters during the primary - 1,700 a day over the first eight days, and more than 2,000 a day the last four.

But if things were too quiet at Zachry, he found a bright side.

Koechley said he is seeing an increase in the number of 18- to 25-year-old casting ballots. And after the Sabos showed up, voting for Constitutional Party presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin, more people arrived.

By 3:35 p.m., five of the six voting machines were occupied.

Greg Sabo, a 37-year-old fire inspector at Lackland AFB, checked in and quickly moved to a booth, the kids in tow.

"We're going to ID a couple of those guys," Koechley chuckled, eying Sabo's kids. "That's our job."