I drove up Bulldog Drive  at 5:45 a.m. to Bunnell High School to cast my first vote as a Connecticut resident. I was not the first person at the polling place. I was about 12th in line. One of the election officials was confirming people's addresses so that they would go and get the correct ballot for the state assembly district.

The doors open promptly at 6:oo with announcement from another election official who proclaimed, "The polls are now officially open!"

Walking to my right I found the table where I was asked my address and for a photo ID. Satisfied with my identity, I received my ballot.

The election official who handed me the ballot asked me if I knew how to fill it out. I told him no, and he explained how you only select one person from each column. I knew who I was casting my votes for in this election and suffice it to say, that no multimillionaires received my vote either for Governor or U.S. Senate.

I did see Gubernatorial candidate Dan Molloy's name appear twice on the ballot, and that could be problematice, if his name is filled in twice. The vote won't count in otherwise a very close race. Evidently Malloy received the nomination of two parties in Connecticut.

It will be interesting to see if voters are confused. There were no referenda questions, so I was done in less than 30 seconds.

I was happy that none of the campaigns had set up outside the school to pass out literature. There also was no one collecting exit poll data either, in this town of 60,000 in eastern Fairfield County.

I managed to make the 6:11 a.m. train to New York. Please vote today.