The voting (and counting here) are finished. Now the wait to find out the actual results.
The day went well here at the poll station. There were only a few minor incidents in an otherwise boringly straightforward national vote. Small problems like moving out of the area and still wanting to vote here, bringing in a prepunched ballot, and a ballot not machine readable (it was an indecipherable judicial retention, not an election vote).
The most interesting part were the 4 foreign observers.

They had official Cook County Election Supervisor credentials.
If they wanted to have any chance of finding fraud, they would have been in one of the low income polling places in Chicago. As one of them was from Peru, a hispanic neighborhood should have been a “slam dunk”, but they got sent to a “white-bread” middle class WASP neighborhood instead. I am not sure if they were just diverted to somewhere harmless, or they were here on a high class junket. We gave them some of the unreuseable signage to take back as souveniers (one of them helped himself to some of the re-useable stuff aas well, but that is another story).
Out of 595 registered votors, we had about 10% identified as no longer residents and about 450 ballots cast including provisionals ( but not military as they have more time to come in and weren’t included in our counts even if they were part of our registered voter numbers.
I am off to the Rebublican victory party to see the rest of the returns and will try to get reactions from there.