When you voted for the very first time, what was your immediate feeling?

[Buzz Rules]

When you voted for the very first time, what was your immediate feeling? Happy, excited, nervous, meh…etc?

 

[Schneewittchen37]

Probably "Meh, I'm hungry, let's go get dinner."

It involved one of those mechanical booths with the lever and the tabs and the drapes. I enjoyed the "ker-thunk" when I pushed the lever to cast the ballot and open the drapes.

 

[RamblingMad]

It felt like taking a test in high school. Fill in all of the circles. But then I mailed it a week ago.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

It involved one of those mechanical booths with the lever and the tabs and the drapes. I enjoyed the "ker-thunk" when I pushed the lever to cast the ballot and open the drapes.

This was my first experience with a voting booth, too. I read somewhere that they were from the 1890s or something like that.

I was really excited to vote, actually. I went to my polling place in South Philly to vote in a presidential primary.

 

[lynxstch]

Really could have cared less

 

[barkley]

these are my only choices???? (jimmy carter vs. ronald reagan).

 

[slo]

I remember feeling very grown up.

 

[TippyThomas]

Underwhelmed

 

[Buzz Rules]

I remember feeling a great sense of thankfulness having the right to have a say in our government by voting.

 

[Meriweather]

voting booth here too

It was just something I felt I needed to do

 

[mumto3girls]

I actually don’t even remember voting for the first time. Maybe absentee? I would have been away at college for the first few times I could vote.

 

[Babs Johnson]

I was first eligible to vote in the 1976 primary, but I was away at college and forgot to request an absentee ballot. I went home to vote in November 76. I don't recall any specific feelings, but I did like those mechanical voting booths with the levers and drapes and clicking sounds.

In 2000, those "hanging chads" in Florida were a surprise, more like a shock. I couldn't believe that some places still had paper ballots.

OK, maybe in rural Nebraska, but in Palm Beach County, Florida???

 

[butterscotchcollins]

I was first eligible to vote in the 2004 Presidential election and I felt really proud and excited! Everyone should take their civic duty seriously and VOTE.

 

[Forevermarypoppins]

these are my only choices???? (jimmy carter vs. ronald reagan).

This was my first Election Vote. I couldn't even tell you now who I voted for. But I've never missed a Presidential Election.

 

[tvguy]

these are my only choices???? (jimmy carter vs. ronald reagan).

Could be worse. My first election was in 1976, Jimmy Carter Vs Gerald Ford.

I don't recall any feeling, we used the voting card machines......yup the one's made famous in Florida in 2000 with hanging chads. So it was just like my student body elections in High School because the County Registrar of voters lent us the equipment for those elections and the Business Machines class had one of the machines to count the cards.
Worked fine for elections for 30 years until Florida messed it up.

 

[Kestryl]

“That’s it?”

This was a May election with a school board primary, so not the most exciting at the time. (School board elections are a lot more exciting now that my husband is a teacher.)

 

[RedAngie]

Confession time.

In 1984, the incumbent was virtually guaranteed re-election. So as a gag I voted for whoever was running on the Communist Party ticket.

Results were published by precinct in my area, and I wanted to see my single vote noted. Alas, two other people also voted Commie.

 

[AppleDumpling]

I don’t really remember how I felt. I just know I registered as soon as I turned 18. (I was still in HS and the school provided registration forms for eligible students.) It sounds cliche, but I believed then, as I do now, that voting is not only a right but a duty.

I actually miss the booths with the curtains and mechanical levers, they were still used here, IIRC, into the early 2000’s.

 

[iivye]

I don't remember the 1st time I voted but I always feel good about going now. While I was checking in at my polling place yesterday a woman yelled out that her son had voted for the first time and everyone clapped for him. He looked mortified but I was happy to see a young person taking an interest in what's going on in their neighborhood/city/state.

 

[LYSE]

I don't remember the 1st time I voted but I always feel good about going now. While I was checking in at my polling place yesterday a woman yelled out that her son had voted for the first time and everyone clapped for him. He looked mortified but I was happy to see a young person taking an interest in what's going on in their neighborhood/city/state.

Lol your not in Ponte Vedra Beach are you? Same exact thing happened last night here.