Princeton voting

The volume has been turned up, the balloons (both red and blue) have been tied up, fake dollar bills have been passed out, and the beverages have been placed on the table. Yep, it's official: the Princeton Frist election watch has begun.

While returns are coming in around the country, P-Votes co-chair Kris Ekdahl '07 has high hopes for Princeton voter turnout. "Overall, it's been a pretty good day for us," he told me. People seemed really excited about the election in general, he said. The most common reaction to all the P-Vote registration and get-out-to-vote initiatives? "Oh, shoot, I forgot to vote. How late are the polls open?" Let's hope that the pizza and doughnuts in the U-Store courtyard and the P-Vote t-shirts helped with memory loss.

Unfortunately, there's no real way to know for sure. P-Votes has decided that it is more labor-effective to convince people to vote rather than conduct exit polls or work at the polling stations themselves. Nevertheless, the four people behind me cheering at Menendez's victory may just have helped give him the seat.

--Rachel Dunn from Frist election watch