Record number of voters expected to deluge polls

Good Evening Friends,

End of another busy working day. Before I was going home I was reading new on yahoo site about America’s presidential election. I read on yahoo site that long lines are there outside pooling stations. Record number of voters expected to deluge polls.

Long lines and malfunctioning machines greeted election officials on Tuesday as polls across the country were deluged by people wanting to vote in this historic race between black Democratic candidate Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.

In the East, electronic machine glitches forced some New Jersey voters to cast paper ballots. In New York, anxious voters started lining up before dawn, prompting erroneous reports that some precincts weren’t opening on time.

“By 7:30 this morning, we had as many as we had at noon in 2004,” said poll worker John Ritch in Chappaqua, N.Y., where Bill and Hillary Clinton live.

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell urged voters to “hang in there” as state and country officials braced for a huge turnout in that hotly contested state. More than 160 people were lined up when the polls opened at First Presbyterian Church in Allentown. “I could stay an hour and a half at the front end or three hours at the back end,” joked Ronald Marshall, a black Democrat.

Hundreds converged on polling precincts in Missouri, a crucial battleground state. Norma Storms, a 78-year-old resident of Raytown, said her driveway was filled with cars left by voters who couldn’t get into nearby parking lots.

AP – Voters fill out their ballots for the general election in Dearborn, Mich. on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. (AP … Long lines and malfunctioning machines greeted election officials on Tuesday as polls across the country were deluged by people wanting to vote in this historic race between black Democratic candidate Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.

In the East, electronic machine glitches forced some New Jersey voters to cast paper ballots. In New York, anxious voters started lining up before dawn, prompting erroneous reports that some precincts weren’t opening on time.

“By 7:30 this morning, we had as many as we had at noon in 2004,” said poll worker John Ritch in Chappaqua, N.Y., where Bill and Hillary Clinton live.

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell urged voters to “hang in there” as state and country officials braced for a huge turnout in that hotly contested state. More than 160 people were lined up when the polls opened at First Presbyterian Church in Allentown. “I could stay an hour and a half at the front end or three hours at the back end,” joked Ronald Marshall, a black Democrat. more 

New Year Look Good for All

Good Morning friends,

Diwali vacation is over for businessman and routine started. Yesterday was the first working as as it iwas Labh Pacham. Fifth day of the New Year. Traditionally, from New Year day till fourth day, business remains closed. It’s on fifth day majority businessmen open their business. Some also go on seventh day. Majority of people go with fifth day.

We also open our business yesterday.

 

Things look good this new year. If I talk about India, BSE Stock index Sensex crosses 10000 again. It was below 8000 before diwali. In one week it added 2000+ points. It’s good sign. On other side, government also taking good actions like reducing CRR to 5.5 is really a good step towards adding more liquidity to the banks.

 

New Year looks good as on today. One more positive sign is that today Finance Minister P Chidambaram will meet a panel of bankers today, to review the current economic situation. He is likely to tell the public sector banks to bring down interest rates in order to boost flow of credit to the industry. Let’s see how it work out and help the industry as well as individual.

Shooting Star

If you look up at the sky on a clear night, you may see a “shooting star” flash across the sky.  Shooting stars are bits of space matter called “meteors”.  Most are no bigger than grains of sand.  Billions of meteors zip through space.  Many are captured by earth’s gravity, and are pulled toward earth.  As the meteors whiz through the earth’s atmosphere, friction causes them to burn white hot.  Then we see them as blazing traits of light.  Meteors usually burns up long before reaching the ground.  Those that survive their fall and land on earth are called “meteorites.”