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'You Know How Computers Are'

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By LAURA FRAZIER | The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 4, 2008

6:20 p.m. BRANDON Carolyn Horn emerges from the polls at Bloomingdale West Recreation Center, scans the quiet parking lot and turns her palms to the dark sky.

"Where is everybody?"

The Bloomingdale woman said she decided to wait until after work to vote when she heard this morning that the line at the center was 200 deep. She was also curious about what would happen if 7 p.m. rolled around and crowds still lined up to vote.

"I wondered, would they really close the polls?"

Horn vacillated between Obama and McCain up until the second she cast her vote.

"I stood with my pen poised, 'til the very end," she said. "I closed my eyes and finally decided to just go with my gut."

Her gut told her to fill in the oval next to the Democratic candidate's name.

"I like different things about each candidates' philosophies and policies, but when I listen to [Obama], I feel like he speaks from the heart."

Horn wasn't as enamored with her first touch-screen voting experience. She prefers a more tactile, less virtual method.

"I like the punch thing. You can feel it and see it and it just seems more accurate than this was. You know how computers are."

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