# Have you voted yet? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 12, 2020, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-voted-yet/922810 "2020-10-12T15:42:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-voted-yet/922810/61 "2020-10-13T16:09:00Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > All of you who are voting early: did you get a sticker? Washington should include a sticker in their ballot package. But these days, who’s going to see a sticker even if I put one on? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-voted-yet/922810/62 "2020-10-13T16:10:49Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > But these days, who’s going to see a sticker even if I put one on? You got me there. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-voted-yet/922810/63 "2020-10-13T16:11:07Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > The line here in San Antonio is moving like Zeno’s arrow: Looks like a mesquite tree. I assume you mean that the line is long and moving slowly? ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-voted-yet/922810/64 "2020-10-13T16:22:44Z")
I got mine. There was a pile of stickers next to the scanning booth. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-voted-yet/922810/65 "2020-10-13T16:23:17Z")
Eh, I’m not going to edit pictures because this place can’t render them properly. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-voted-yet/922810/66 "2020-10-13T16:23:56Z")
How long, in terms of time, is the wait? ---
**Author:** ![SoToasty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sotoasty/32/2803_2.png) [@SoToasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoToasty)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-voted-yet/922810/67 "2020-10-13T16:46:34Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > The poll needs another choice: No not yet, but will before 11/3. > > That’s my choice. Same here. Early voting opens on Friday. Not sure what day we will go but we will do the early voting when it opens. ---
**Author:** ![JayRx1981](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71e660/32.png) [@JayRx1981](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JayRx1981)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-voted-yet/922810/68 "2020-10-13T16:48:23Z")
When I early voted, they let me take 2 stickers, so I can wear one on Election day. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-voted-yet/922810/69 "2020-10-13T16:49:39Z")
It was 2.5 hours at a polling location in a conservative area. Not suppression, but enthusiasm, is my guess for the lines. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-voted-yet/922810/70 "2020-10-13T17:17:31Z")
The nice thing about election stickers is that by not wearing one I can make people think I haven’t voted and invite harassment. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-voted-yet/922810/71 "2020-10-13T17:29:51Z")
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**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-voted-yet/922810/72 "2020-10-13T17:35:36Z")
How well was it set up? Last time I early voted, in 2008, it took 4 hours. They had it downtown, which sucked, as I had to pay for parking, and then the line wrapped all the way around the building and up the stairs to the 3rd floor where the BOE was. There were only 4 windows for processing. This year they moved it to a more central location (I didn’t even know that till last week when I looked it up, was pleasantly surprised, was expecting to have to go downtown again.) it was much easier to get to, plenty of free parking, and maybe 10 minutes in line. They made a ton of improvements since 2008. So, was your early voting actually set up to deal with the volume? ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-voted-yet/922810/73 "2020-10-13T17:39:52Z")
Good luck today, Tejas Dopers. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-voted-yet/922810/74 "2020-10-13T17:46:59Z")
For the few San Antonio residents here, I went to the Cody Library location. I don’t think it was really set up for a crush, but I purposely went to a popular voting spot so I could see what the enthusiasm levels were. I expected a 2 hour line, and that’s about what I got. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-voted-yet/922810/75 "2020-10-13T18:31:15Z")
You get to pick? Lucky you. For early voting, there is exactly one place per county. For election day voting, we are assigned a voting location. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-voted-yet/922810/76 "2020-10-13T18:36:22Z")
I, too, have one place where I can vote early, and one (different) place where I can vote on election day. But the lines have never been bad at either. And this year I voted “by mail”, which means I requested a ballot be mailed to me, I waited for it to arrive, and after it did I filled it out and dropped it into the box at town hall. (Also only one place, but easy to get to and no line at all.) Paper ballots in the 'burbs are nice. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-voted-yet/922810/77 "2020-10-13T18:46:19Z")
I just got to my polling place. Usually the people in line number in the single digits. Today there are about 100 people in line. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-voted-yet/922810/78 "2020-10-13T20:53:25Z")
Just finished voting. The line did move slow, with the disinfecting of the voting machines after each voter slowing things down some. None the less, my estimate is that close to 1,000 people voted today at my polling location. The other places around Corpus Christi are reported to have had similarly large turnouts. I hope this bodes well for Biden. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-voted-yet/922810/79 "2020-10-14T01:10:25Z")
My daughter asked how long I waited to vote and I responded ‘Two and a half hours by one metric, 3.9 years by another.’ It took her a second to get it. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-voted-yet/922810/80 "2020-10-14T04:37:10Z")
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