Lois & Clark Forums Forums General Discussion Off Topic So, how long did it take you to vote today?

I got to the polling place at around 7:30am and didn't get my voting sheet until 25 minutes later. I thought that was a pretty decent wait, considering that normally I walk right in, hand them my card and ID, get my sheet and we are done.

Then I get to work and half the lot is empty. My boss waited 90 minutes. The lady across from us waited 4 hours .

This is her story. She lives not quite a half mile from her voting area and the line was already to her HOUSE at 7am!.

She decided to wait and about an hour later it was only down a block from her house. At that point she bit the bullet and just walked down the block and got in line.

James

How about 0. (Oregon ) I voted last weekend via a ballot drop box.

According the the local newspaper, more than 60% of eligible voters had cast their ballot before today.

Why is Oregon the only state that has stepped up and elliminated the "long line for voting" problem?

Bob

Absentee.

Mailed it to my mom, priority mail, so that I could be sure it arrived on time. She then dropped it off for me last week.

Here in Chi-town, however, it's taken 2 hours or more for everyone I've talked to so far.

As another person who is in Oregon, I dropped off my ballot this morning in a vote drop box. No wait required.

Well let's see...

I read this thread (last one i read was Bethy at 1:35) Decided to go then to vote. Drove there voted and drove back and it is now 1:53. So not even 20 minutes. (and I left after 1:35.)

I got in line at about 7:05am and was out of there by 7:45am.

Not a bad wait at all considering some of the stories I have heard so far. I didn't seem so bad since I chatted with some people in line.

DH went to vote at 6 this morning and there were about 50 people in line so he left for work - couldn't wait. Keep in mind our polling place is a fire station surrounded on three sides by farms in the middle of nowhere [but right next to an Assembly of God church...]. Two years ago there were about 500 people who voted in our precinct. He went back about 1130 and walked right in as voter 651.

I'm taking the kids about 4 with my neighbors and hoping no or very little line pre-post-work crowd. I know several places in Springfield were 1.5 hours or longer...

Word of warning to everyone though... Don't listen to the exit polls/predictions...

Vote anyway...

Carol

Dang straight. It ain't over till it is over!
James

Counting transit time, wait time and actual voting time, 10 minutes. I had my little pamphlet already marked up so I wouldn't need to take much time. There were two people ahead of me, but one women stepped out of line, saying she wasn't sure she was even at the right place so I should go ahead.

This was a major improvement over the primaries, though. When I got there then, the only people there were the people working there.

Tara

I waited till after the morning rush and went to vote at 10:00 a.m. They had rearranged the precincts, so I had to leave my familiar voting place (with no line) and go to another location (with a long line). It took about 30 minutes. It was nice and polite. But then, I live in a rural area.

But, I've heard some disturbing stories about Republicans being threatened in Pa. I'm sure there is a link by now...

I've heard the same stories [along with the really big New Black Panthers guy with a billy club outside a polling place in PA].

The town we vote in officially has 347 people in it, but it was incorporated into our town of 12K or so a few years ago but is still semi-separate.

And especially in your area, James. It's going to be pretty close in the state and even a few votes either way [in any area, but particularly votes opposite the local stronghold party] are potentially huge...

We're going in twenty minutes...

Carol

Absentee voted, but a number of Georgia residents said they waited for hours today! So I have to admit, it was kind of nice to be not a resident here for a change...

JD

We walked in - one person in front of me in my check in line - my neighbors were the only ones in their line. I parked the stroller next to me and the three of us each took one of my DDs. They got stickers .

No waiting for a place at the table but it was crowded.

One line had one person in it when we left [A-K] and the other [L-Z] had about 6-7. We waited for people pulling out when we got there and had people waiting for us when we left. Parking lot only holds about 20-25 but still...

Two years ago my neighbors went about 5 and were numbers 350ish. I was 960ish at 430. Our area has grown but they're also expecting 75-80% turnout in our county - we had a visit by Palin a week and a half ago and Obama Sat [he spent the night] so they expect us to be close... Or our state is in a dead heat so every vote counts...

Carol

It took about 40 minutes which was the longest I've ever waited to vote. Definitely as Carol and James both said, get out there and vote!

Mona

We did early voting on Saturday in Florida. We were first in line and voted within 20 minutes.

Heard later the wait was over 3 hours at that branch of the public library.

Where I live the polls opened at 7:00 am. I was in line at 6:45 am. I was in the first 50 that voted. Was out and back in my car by 7:15. It was raining pretty hard. I live in a beach resort town so I guess the winter residency is only about 8,000 maybe.

I went in at 8:00 and was out by 8:15.

I did early voting two weeks ago at the mall. It was busy, but there wasn't really a wait.

I waited an hour to get to the actual voting booths. I got to the church at 6:35, 5 minutes after they opened, and the line was well outside the door. I had my book with me, so the time went fairly quickly. I was the only one in my S-Z line, but once I was through that, I had to wait in yet another line that snaked through rows of seats to get the booths. I ended up (after a quick stop for breakfast) only a half hour late to work.

You know... all of this waiting, and I still don't know which color NC is!

Less than 5 minutes here.