Poll watching? or Poll Listening?

So while i'm casting my ballot this morning, I'm treated to some lady talking on her cellphone about picking up dinner from ingles or whatever the heck it was. And when I finished up ticking off my ballot I went up to the poll watcher and told them that I was pretty sure talking on the cell phone in the voting booth was a violation of the law. They agreed it was, and finally got around to telling the woman to can it.

I than preceded to stand in the rain for the better part of an hour, asking people their thoughts on the election as they came out, for my job as radio journalist. I was out in the rain because the law requires 150 feet from the polling place before exit polls or interviews.

In the immortal words of Walter Sobchak:


"Am I the only one around here who gives a shit about the rules?"