We went as early as we could. The line was out the door and down the parking lot, but our election judges did an outstanding job. We got in and hit the machines within 30 minutes.
About 1 hr, 15 minutes in PA. The line on campus looked much worse!
No wait at all. I stopped after work, got there just a bit after 3. Stood about 5 seconds before I got to go to the table to check in, then went right over to where a poll worker took me to a free terminal. Less than 5 minutes from turning off my car to starting it back up again.
My husband was waiting when they opened at 7. He got there 6:40 and got out about 7:15. He said when he left the line went around the building. Guess everyone wanted to get done before work.
Maybe 5 minutes - my college campus didn’t vote on its grounds, but instead at a church 1.2 miles away. The walk was mostly sidewalkless, but the voting itself was easy!
9:30, No wait. East Bay, Ca.
Did this person mention why she sent it in blank?
1 hour, from 8:20AM to 9:20AM. Somerville MA. The line was slightly shorter by the time I got finished.
My voting place is a little church in the country. About 8:00 this morning it was fairly crowded, I’d say the line coming out the front door was 40 feet long or so.
I went back at 10:30 and the line was only slightly coming out the front doors. I waited about 10 minutes to vote.
I just got back from voting. I was prepared to wait several hours if necessary, but there was no line whatsoever. There were some people already voting, but nobody waiting to get their ballot. I got my ballot, voted and left in about 10 minutes.
Not sure if this is a good thing. I was hoping for a huge turnout.
No wait for us. We had brought stuff to read and everything.
I was in and out in under five minutes. I went at lunch time, and only saw two people leaving the booths as I came in.
About a minute at 9:40 this morning, after I went to the dentist, and it probably would have been less if a guy hadn’t blocked the door going in and out with coffee.
About 15 minutes in line, at 11AM.
That is longer than I have ever had to wait, the first time I have ever seen a line at all. I live in NYC-- Northwest Queens --my election district is very small and has 1 machine…there are multiple districts that all vote in the same polling place.
With one machine and 1 person signing in voters the line moved slowly, part of the reason for the “long” wait was THE 1 person whose name did not show up on the rolls and wouldn’t just shut up already and fill out the provisional ballot. Also the line at the machine was held up for awhile because the guy monitoring it didn’t realize it was empty, I finally got his attention and pointed out that there were no feet visible below the curtain.
There were other lines for other districts that were substantially longer, it was pretty easy but on the other hand everything I was voting on was pretty much a done deal, no battlegrounds here.
(Philadelphia suburbs) Only about five minutes. I went at 10 AM.
No wait. 1:30 PM. Far NW side of Chicago. All booths open. One was the touch screen, and I used that.
15 minutes…and that includes travel, round trip!
It was horrible! I was in line for nearly…
…five seconds.
To be fair, though, that’s because I stopped to mess with the pollster’s head a little.
As posted in another thread somewhere, Marcie and I walked into the polling place, where we were greeted by the guy on duty; he looked at our ID, made sure we had signed the backs of the envelopes that held our ballots, pointed to a box with a slot in it and said, “Drop 'em in there.” We did and he gave us stickers that said something about I voted. It took us probably ten minutes from start to finish. Best voting experience in my life.
They’d kick you out around here for bringing a camera in. One guy refused to turn off his walkie-talkie thing (“I’m working, I have to leave it on”) and they booted him. Two tiny 90 year old women hustling a construction worker looking character out, him complaining the whole time, them pointing to the approximately 3 brazillion signs, him still talking to whoever was on the other end of the radio. Weird.
He was behind me though.
It took about 90 seconds from the time I got into the Town Hall until I had voted. It would have been less, but I chatted with one of the poll workers, a childhood friend of mine.
My ballot was the 1,111th counted there, shortly after 4 PM. Polls close at 8 PM.
About a minute, and, like someone else said, it was to wait for the worker to turn the pages in her book. I am the last person on the list in our town so it really shouldn’t have taken that long.
I took the day off to hang with my son, who went with me and listened attentively as I whispered each of my votes to him. When I took him in 2000 he tried to color on the ballot and pooped his pants. What a difference 8 years makes!