Not uncommon at all, out here. I mailed mine in more than a week ago.
Went right up to the front in Minneapolis, got my stub which then gets me a ballot and then sat down at a table since all the booths were taken up. It took me much longer to vote for all of the freakin’ judges than anything else. (We have paper ballots which have an oval filled in and then it’s fed into a scanner to make sure the voter didn’t double vote for anything-it surprises me that every state hasn’t adopted our methodology).
Atlanta, GA.
40 minutes.
I’ve never had to wait for more than one or two people in all the time I’ve voted here in Schenectady.
New York uses the same type of system as Minnesota, it seems. Voting should have a paper trail.
Austin, about 15 minutes.
Other: less than 5 minutes, but three times. We had two lines at our polling place (because of a recent remap, it serves two wards). I got in the correct ward line, and the very scrambled poll worker told me I wasn’t on their list, so I waited in the other line. I wasn’t on the other list either, of course, because it’s not my ward. So I went back to the first line, and insisted that she look again, and showed my ID with my street address, and insisted I had just checked on the Board of Elections website a couple of days ago, and I was properly registered and this was my polling place.
Of course, I was on the first list, right where I was supposed to be – the poll worker just apparently couldn’t count or spell, which is why she didn’t find me the first time. I think it was cluelessness rather than malice.
Houston TX, waited just a bit more than five min. Was close enough to my house walked, waited, voted and walked back in less than thirty.
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Early voting, Charlotte NC.
We have those too. The machine won’t accept a ballot that isn’t marked correctly. Nice that a voter has an opportunity to fix it, instead of the ballot being tossed later, or whatever happens to mismarked ballots in areas that don’t have the scanners.
Voted last Friday – took about five minutes because there were two envelopes to fill out and sign. Small town Iowa.
Fenton, MO. Almost an hour, but that’s because I turned up well before polling started, to be sure of getting a parking spot. When I left the line was shorter and going fairly fast.
We also use this system. (Until a few years ago, we used voting machines.) I am glad we don’t use a touchscreen system; the present system does provide a physical ballot to hand count in case the electronics go haywire.
Just got back. There was no line; the biggest delay was remembering which of the two election districts I’m in. I’m in suburban NY State (Westchester County.)
Around 35 min, and we (husband and I) left work at 1030 in order to miss the rush. Lines behind us, closer to lunchtime, were out the doors and around the building. It’s freaking cold out, too.
Northern Virginia suburbs, USA.
Ten minutes. Suburban st. Louis.
That doesn’t count running into an old friend who was volunteering for a candidate and talking to her for 10 minutes before I went inside.
New York state, in a very blue semi-rural county; a place where the Greens can do about as well as the Republicans. Maybe two minutes. No line to get the ballot (paper Scantron, one side, no referendums), no line for a privacy screen, no line to cast it in the scanner. Still, the polling place was busy.
Oregon, voted by mail last week.
Lincoln, NE, no wait, though I was 140 for my district when usually I’m more like 25 or 30 by the time I get there on my way to work.
Voted by mail a week ago. I’m in LA County.
For additional anecdotes, one coworker told me she waited less than five minutes at her polling place (two people ahead of her in line when she arrived, with all voting machines occupied). Another coworker said he waited 45 minutes at his spot, and he was in line when the polls opened.
Washington state: no polling places in this area, dropped my mail-in ballot off last week. Everybody should do it this way.
No line. San Diego CA.
They have voting machines in LA? not the fill in the bubble pieces of paper?
Less than five minutes. There were maybe a half dozen people in line ahead of me but the line moved pretty quick. It probably took me longer to walk to the polls and back home than it did to get my ballot and vote.
Lawrence KS, one of the rare blue spots in an overwhelmingly red state.