part of grant park - still a way away from the main area staging...security and police are freaked right out at the potential hassle security is going to pose...

walking on the way to grant park

be glad we don't have to use these to vote anymore

walking on the way to grant park...this area will also likely be packed...

grant park - still quite a way back from the main area...

on the way to grant park...

A 1920's mechanical voting machine, made by the Automatic Registering Machine Co. (which was part of the market controlled by the US Standard Voting Machine Co.).

A random artifact from the Museum of American Heritage

another area quite far back from the main staging are - nov 3, 2 pm...

Voting machines like this one were used for many years. The iconic red handle registers the voter's selection of candidates and votes on ballot issues.

License this image from Alamy Photo Library. Search for image ID: P8GPRA

Voting and democracy related display. Photographed in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington DC, USA.

Smithsonian

americanhistory.si.edu/vote/votingmachine.html

americanhistory.si.edu/vote/votingmachine.html

I wanted to take a better picture but felt guilty about wasting time...and I have no idea what that thing is over Obama's name. A force field?