# I done my doodie. How was your voting experience? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 4, 2008, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-done-my-doodie-how-was-your-voting-experience/471033 "2008-11-04T12:28:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 31
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-done-my-doodie-how-was-your-voting-experience/471033/31 "2008-11-04T14:54:05Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > There were occasional really long pauses while people were in the booths voting; one person literally took 20 minutes to push 7 buttons. (If intentionally wasting time in the booth is a strategy to nullify voter turn out, its pretty pathetic) That’s a bit uncharitable. Perhaps it’s significantly different wherever you are, but I’ve never taken less than 20-30 minutes to vote, and not because I’m trying to bog anything up. I vote for all races, including the judge retention election, plus I double-check my ballot. I’m naturally paranoid about accuracy in important things to begin with, but my first election in Chicago provided those dreaded “butterfly ballots” with chad-punchers (this was the same election where the butterfly ballots in FL made the news, along with “pregnant chads”). I had a sample ballot with me, and I made damn sure that the number of the chad I punched matched the number of the chad I intended to punch, and that it was a clean punch. I’m glad I did, given the FL froo-farah afterward. I stuck my head out my living room window 7:30 this morning, and there was a line at my polling place. There is _never_ a line at my polling place. I’m going to keep an eye on it for another 30 mins or so… if the line doesn’t ease up by then I’ll just grab a book to hang out in line. It looks like it’s moving pretty quickly, anyway. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-done-my-doodie-how-was-your-voting-experience/471033)._