# How long did you wait in line to vote? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 6, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-did-you-wait-in-line-to-vote/640084 "2012-11-06T15:05:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-did-you-wait-in-line-to-vote/640084/1 "2012-11-06T15:05:11Z")
Also, list your location. ---
**Author:** ![Snowcarpet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowcarpet/32/257_2.png) [@Snowcarpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowcarpet)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-did-you-wait-in-line-to-vote/640084/2 "2012-11-06T15:07:31Z")
1.5 hours, urban Akron, OH. ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-did-you-wait-in-line-to-vote/640084/3 "2012-11-06T15:11:05Z")
I’m in MN. Redistricting meant that we now vote at a new polling place, a church within a mile of my home. I took a shortcut through a neighborhood, parked, walked in to see a line of about 20 people. But there were signs dividing us up into A-L, and M-Z. The twenty people were all in the M-Z line. I strolled up to my A-L line, gave them my last name, signed in, went to the table for my ballot, voted. I was home within 15 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-did-you-wait-in-line-to-vote/640084/4 "2012-11-06T15:18:23Z")
I walked in, there was one guy ahead of me in the L-Z line, no one in the A-K line. Waited a couple of seconds for the guy in front of me to sign his name. Upstate NY. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-did-you-wait-in-line-to-vote/640084/5 "2012-11-06T15:18:55Z")
I got there at 7:20 and I was out at 7:41. This was in MN as well. I’d have been even sooner if the fricking streets didn’t decide to fuck off in nongridlike directions, the bastards. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-did-you-wait-in-line-to-vote/640084/6 "2012-11-06T15:19:52Z")
Got in at 7:20, got out around 8:10. Johnson County, Indiana. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-did-you-wait-in-line-to-vote/640084/7 "2012-11-06T15:22:16Z")
There were two people ahead of me in my last-name sort. It took maybe ten minutes. They changed my polling place from a school 3 miles from me that I went within a block from on my way to work every day, to a school 10 miles away (if I drove through the winding country roads, which I did). StG ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-did-you-wait-in-line-to-vote/640084/8 "2012-11-06T15:30:49Z")
Mailed mine. Is that uncommon? ---
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-did-you-wait-in-line-to-vote/640084/9 "2012-11-06T15:35:15Z")
There was just one person ahead of me in line. The hard part was the ballot itself, which was quite long and had lots of people running for corporate commissioner, propositions, and should we retain this judge- type questions. Tucson, AZ ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-did-you-wait-in-line-to-vote/640084/10 "2012-11-06T15:37:35Z")
Southbridge MA. Our lines are broken up into district and my district always has a short line. There were 3 other people in line and one of them was in the wrong line. I had my ballot about a minute after I walked through the door. All in all I was in and out in fewer than 5 minutes. There were people in line for other districts when I walked in who were still in line when I walked out. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-did-you-wait-in-line-to-vote/640084/11 "2012-11-06T15:39:00Z")
Chillicothe, Ohio, a small city in farm country. I waited behind my wife and mother-in-law for about 2 minutes. I was the 54th person to cast a ballot at that precinct, at about 10:20 AM. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-did-you-wait-in-line-to-vote/640084/12 "2012-11-06T15:40:26Z")
Northern Boston suburb. Waited about 30 seconds for the person ahead of me to give their name & address to the clerk. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-did-you-wait-in-line-to-vote/640084/13 "2012-11-06T15:48:48Z")
Walked right in. Two minutes tops for both of us. One advantage of living in The Middle of Nowhere, WI. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-did-you-wait-in-line-to-vote/640084/14 "2012-11-06T15:50:43Z")
Rural western PA. No wait, I was the only one (other than the workers) there. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-did-you-wait-in-line-to-vote/640084/15 "2012-11-06T15:51:06Z")
I haven’t voted yet, but my husband waited 50 minutes. We’re in Ward 8B, and the line for Ward 8A was in and out in four minutes. He was heartily pissed. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-did-you-wait-in-line-to-vote/640084/16 "2012-11-06T15:56:04Z")
Just under 30 minutes for L-Z. Those smug f\*ckers in A-K had no line. Northern Virginia. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-did-you-wait-in-line-to-vote/640084/17 "2012-11-06T15:59:11Z")
30 minutes, arrived 5 minutes before the polls opened. Greater Boston area. ---
**Author:** ![bartleby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bartleby/32/10491_2.png) [@bartleby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bartleby)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-did-you-wait-in-line-to-vote/640084/18 "2012-11-06T16:23:20Z")
got there about 8:20a, left about 8:35a. SW Ohio ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-did-you-wait-in-line-to-vote/640084/19 "2012-11-06T16:24:40Z")
I voted last week in Franklin County, Ohio, and there was no wait. (Although there were about a hundred other people there at the time.) ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-did-you-wait-in-line-to-vote/640084/20 "2012-11-06T16:29:56Z")
I live in a rural area of SW Ohio, and the voting booths are located in an unheated pole barn owned by township. Got there at 0645, and had to wait 5 minutes. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-did-you-wait-in-line-to-vote/640084.md?page=2)