In the primaries I got shuffled around to three different precincts in three different parts of town before I could vote, and by the time they sent me to the right one the line was over an hour long. In the election I just walked across the street and voted, no line, no nothin’.
That seems odd. Is it a state law or something? The poll workers here (MO) didn’t give me any trouble at all: they were friendly and willing participants and one of them even took some pictures, so I could be in the photos, too. I posted some of them in Biggirl’s “I done my doodie” thread.
Went at about 7:00PM. No line at all, ten minutes in and out.
Polls here close at 9:00.
I vote at my son’s school, so I went first thing this morning. I think lots of parents had the same idea. I waited about 20 minutes.
The longest I’ve ever waited was the 2004 election when I went at 5pm after work. I waited 45 minutes.
About a minute. There was someone in the booth ahead of me. This was around 6:00.
It was the busiest I’ve ever seen our polling place.
As I said in the early voting thread, I don’t understand the waits people were willing to put up with because I’ve never had to. There was no one ahead of me when I voted at 5:15 this afternoon. I would have been done sooner if you could still vote a straight ticket, but since you can’t, it took me five minutes to fill in all the circles.
I still find it odd that there are places with long waits - we had over a 90% turnout in 2004, and there still weren’t any waits. I’d of thought bigger places would be more prepared for voters than little ones (~10,000 residents) like this, because don’t you all have multiple voting places to get everyone through?
We just moved to a new place, hence a new polling station. No lines, tons of friendly overly happy volunteers, and we got right in. Very cool.
Northeast PA. The polls opened at 7:00am, I arrived at 7:12am, and voted at 7:20am. I was the 46th voter. There were four of those little privacy panels on 2 tables. I filled out a paper ballot and put it in a large metal box with a padlock and a wax seal on it. As usual all the poll workers were elderly women. I didn’t have any problem voting with my Obama/Binden pin on. There were 2 armed constables outside; something I’ve never seen at a polling place before.
I vote at an elementary school in Reno, Nevada. I stopped in on the way home this afternoon at about 5:15. There was no line, but every machine (maybe 20 of them?) had a voter working it.
About 5 minutes. Three to sign in, two to wait for the voting machine. I went at about 2:00 pm.
Our polls opened at 6:00. I got there at 6:15. Before, I’d never seen a line outside the building. This morning, it was out the building, across the parking lot, and another block or so up the street. I figured I wouldn’t get to work on time if I voted then, and resigned myself to dealing with an even longer line after work.
My wife got there at 8:00. The line was shorter - out the building some - and it took a bit over an hour.
I got there about 5:30. No line at all. More election workers than voters. I was done in less than 5 minutes. I was very pleasantly surprised.
I’d like to thank those who voted early here and thus didn’t slow me down this evening. 
I didn’t have to wait at all. The person in front of me picked up her ballot just as I got to the table.
The polling place was “full”, though. There were 6 voting booths, plus two tables set up for people to sit at who didn’t mind if their vote wasn’t completely “secret”. The booths were all occupied and there were five of us sitting at the tables. By the time I finished filling out my ballot (we used a “ScanTron” type ballot here) there were five people waiting in line.
5:00 PM at the local Elementary School.
Small suburban NJ town.
Five minutes to get the paperwork in order.
No wait at 6pm in Berkeley, CA. The voting place is only a few blocks away from the UC Berkeley campus so methinks it wasn’t crowded because the polling place looked closed. The front door wasn’t open and it’s in a dimly lit area.
There were 7 poll helper people and 6 polling stations. While I was there waiting for my fiance to vote, at most, two polling stations were taken. It was kinda sad.
About 5 to 10 minutes, total, which was much, much quicker than I’d expected! I voted in NYC–in Harlem, more specifically.
Two and a half hours, but that was for early voting at the Supervisor of Elections main office. I’ve been told that the wait was much shorter at other early voting locations.
10 minutes, about 10.30am. A friend of ours was the supervisor and told us that 20 minutes previously, there was no line. When we got finished, there was no line. That was for our precinct, though, and there are maybe 10 precincts at our polling place, which is quite large. The place was fuller than I have ever seen it in 8 years.
No wait, at 9:30 AM. There was no one else there but the four ladies tending the place, who were sitting around drinking coffee and chatting. No computers, either, just a big book with Ye Liste of Registr’d Voters, and two old lever-action voting machines. None of these things have changed since I was a kid, except the addition of the fourth lady (who is the granddaughter of one of the others) and of my name to the book.
My polling place is, shall we say, rural.
About thirty seconds. Went in around noon. It was a ghost town, but it was really busy earlier this morning. I wasted time playing with the dial.
I went during the busiest time and there were only three people ahead of me, one of whom I had gone there with. And there was only one booth. But according to my friend who was working there, there was 50% turnout by 530pm when I went, and about 70% by the end.