My First Suburban General Election Vote

In April, 2008, I moved from St. Paul to Eagan (a second ring suburb).

Today, I voted for the 1st time outside the cities of Minneapolis or St. Paul.  I have voted in either of the cities since 1980. I noticed a couple of differences:

1.  There were more machines (I found out why: in 2004 my old precinct had 1645 voters, my new one had 2586).

2.  There were more workers (probably for the same reason)

3. There was less diversity (but not much)