TAP Web Editor Phoebe Connelly writes:
Got to my polling place, the Trinity AME Zion Church on 16th St, NW in Colombia Heights, a little after 8 a.m. this morning. The line out the door wrapped for two and a half blocks when I joined it, and was soon a full three blocks long. There was a coffee stand set up on Center St., and two of the candidates on my ballot were working the line (a women running for ANC commissioner and a woman running for the Board of Education). It took about an hour and 45 mins to get inside the church. Once inside things moved pretty quickly--I didn't get asked for ID, and I was offered a choice of paper or electronic ballot. Once I'd filled in my ballot, I paused and held it up to the florescent light in my booth to snap a picture. The nearest poll worker started laughing, "Everyone is taking pictures of their ballot today. Everyone wants to remember that they were a part of history."
