I voted around 7:15 this morning, and there were no more than four other voters while I was there. Something like twelve election officials/poll workers (we typically have very low turnout, so they have collapsed three districts’ polling places into one, and each district has its own bank of tables and about four poll workers assigned to it). Except for somebody’s ballot getting jammed in the grabby counting-box (I don’t know what they’re called), I was in and out in less than ten minutes.
I voted around 10:00, and waited in line maybe ten minutes, so around 15 minutes all told. My wife is the Democratic judge for the precinct, and she said there had been a line since opening at 7:00, with the longest being about 40 minutes wait.
I voted early (last week) and there was about a five minute wait.
I went by the polls today and all of them say that it is busier than it has been in decades.
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I voted about an hour ago, and I was one of two voters there. I asked the volunteer how many people had been in before and he said it was about 460. He also said he’d never seen such a big turnout.
Took me nearly 4 hours to vote today. :mad:
They had 12 or 15 booths, but only about 3 of them were in use at a time, while 2000 people were waiting. The goddammed geriatric welcome and checkin crew (both of them) was moving at a snails pace. UNBELIEVABLE. :mad: :mad: :mad:
Only as long as it took me to read the damn thing (we have more than a dozen ballot initiatives in CA this time).
Ever since my kids were born, I have been listed as a permanent absentee voter. I vote in the chaos of my own kitchen, or in the middle of the night, about 2 weeks early!
I just got back from my polling place. My ballots (state/federal and local were separate) made 745 and 746 on the little machine, which seemed like it can go up to 999. There’s no telling how many times it has cycled.
My page in the voter book had eight names in it. Counting me, five had voted. So in my town, voter turnout is 62.5%. (How’s that for extrapolation?)
Took me about 7 minutes (got back about 15 minutes ago) not including travel time. I was voter 349. That included changing my registration from a previous address.
I got there a bit after 8 this morning and was worried when I saw long lines coming out of the gym. Four precincts vote in that gym, and there were really long lines for three, but no one in line at my table, and three of the five machines in use. I was ballot 84…I’m assuming they started with 1. But since my table was at the back of the room, I had to weave thru all the other people standing. Voting took me about 10-15 minutes, so some of those people were going to be waiting a long time…each precinct had 5 or 6 machines. Even with a quick turnover of five people every 10 minutes there was a considerable wait at an election site where you are usually spending more time at the bake sale than waiting to vote. Parking was horrendous, and I nearly got run over when I stepped out the door…the car was within a foot of the open door. Many, many more people standing outside with campaign signs, and more police chatting with them instead of directing parking, but I didn’t see anyone being challenged, which they warned us about on the news last night. I’m in Ohio, you know, where apparently our votes are more important to scrutinize.
As of 4:00 pm 213 people had voted at my polling place. The previous all-time high is 165. 213, and with two hours to go! This one brought 'em all out of the woodwork.
In my locale, we have about 1800 eligible voters. Over 1300 had voted by 4:45 pm.
I voted at 9:35 this morning. I had to wait about 10-15 minutes to get my ballot. (If my last name had begun with A-C, however, I could’ve walked right up to get my ballot.)
I was given ballot number 787, in a precinct of 3601 voters. Our state had early voting for the last two weeks, and over 90,000 have already voted in my county before today.
I got to my polling place at about 6:40 a.m. and there were already about two dozen people in line. By 7 a.m. the line had already doubled. It took me about 40 minutes from the time I got in line to the time I handed in my little electronic ballot card.
I’m excited to see so many people voting in this election! (I just heard on the news that voter turnout for the county is estimated at about 75 percent.) The only downside is that I never got an “I voted” sticker. It seems my polling place never got them. (pouts) I voted! I want a sticker, too!
Maybe ten minutes, if that, not counting walking over there. When I got there all the booths were full (maybe 6 of them) and two people waiting, when I left it was the same. I was worried about turnout until I got home and saw the massive lines elsewhere in town on TV.