Absentee voted ages ago - Nebraska uses the scantron sheets for both absentee and regular voting, which are so clear I don’t understand why all states don’t use them.
The wording of some of the issue questions was suitably opaque, but otherwise: easy peasy lemon squeezy.
Here’s a question then - if I leave work at 5:00 and get to the polling place and wait and wait they can’t close and tell me to go home because the line is too long right?!?! The polls say they close at 7:00pm, but if it takes until 9:00pm I’m good right?
I used to vote just down the block, but districts got reassigned so I had to go to a school about 5 blocks away instead. When I arrived at 6:25 this morning (polls opened at 6), there were a dozen or so people in line ahead of me. I don’t recall giving ID before but people were saying it might be helpful in case there were issues with the redistricting, so I did pull mine out. They found my name in these little flip-books of voter registrations for the district, pulled out my page (which had a copy of my signature from a previous registration or something), signed, and this was passed down to another worker who gave me a ballot. Went over to a little standing mini-table fenced in on three sides by a small barrier, and used their marker to fill in bubbles like I was doing a SAT test. I then put the ballot into a machine, which recorded that I was the 58th voter at that site.
It took about 15 minutes total since I was waiting for my husband; he had to wait to put his ballot in since the machine got hung up on one ballot, but the jam was cleared (husband said the ballot looked undamaged and was put back into the machine) and he finally got to put his ballot in.
We got stickers, too. 
My understanding is that they can’t cut off anyone who’s in line by closing time, but I don’t know if this varies by state. See if there’s a voter information site for your state/county that will have more information.
Edit: And now I see the location tag - I think you’ll be ok as long as you’re in line on time, but I haven’t voted at the end of the day in years, so double-check to be sure.
No worries. Polls open at 7:00 am, I was second in line at 6:30. By the time it opened there was about 100+ in line. We had some new people working, which slowed it down a bit, but my ballot was #5 in the optical scanner and I was out by 7:10. Didn’t get my 'I Voted" sticker (they weren’t that organized yet and I didn’t want to wait). Chatted with a few people in line about the nice weather we are having. Everyone seemed very upbeat.
If you are in line when the polls close you will be able to vote.
I got there about a minute before the polls opened but so did half the neighborhood. Still, it only took about 30 minutes total. We also use the scantrons in NM, which is a bit confusing because we used to use those old fashioned voting machines where you hit buttons.
It’s not unusual for people not to know their precinct numbers; I keep confusing mine with my old girl scout troop number.
Polls opened at 6am, I was there by 6:30am, didn’t even have to wait in line.
We were there maybe 5 minutes, if that.
Very easy. I wouldn’t exactly call New Jersey a swing state, so I’m guessing turnout is average/low due to lack of competition.
Afterward we had a very nice breakfast at a very nice diner before shuffling off to work. Rather than getting here late as I expected, I got here early.
I am extremely dissapointed that I didn’t get an ‘‘I Voted’’ sticker. 
If Proposition 8 passes in California I think my day will be ruined.
I was at my polling place by about 5:55 and was around tenth in line. But things went pretty screwy after that: the volunteer who kept the voter rolls (I think) was a few minutes late, so nobody could vote until she arrived. Then they couldn’t get any electricity in the voting booths, so we stood in line for 20-odd minutes doing nothing. I think it was as simple as a three-prong plug that didn’t have an adapter. Eventually they got one of the two machines working and I was done at around 6:40. There were about 50 people in line behind me when I left.
Got to the polling place – a fire station – at 9:30, three hours after the polls open in North Carolina. Only one person ahead of me in line.
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.
Polls opened at 7 - I was there at 7 behind a hundred people. Took about 2 hours. Made me late to work. It was cold and damp, too.
you need to be aware of thisthen
I voted early on Sunday, since we have two kids and my husband was home to take care of them. It took almost three hours. Blech.
The polls open at 6am. The school is practically across the street from me and I got there at just before 7 and was done just after with almost no wait. The weather is beautiful in Jersey today.
They were very well staffed with more volunteers than I had ever seen. One worker mentioned that they already had 110 voters. I know in some off year elections they get as little as 230 voters in my district. So the 110 by 7am is amazing. I was also heartened by seeing two young people (18-22 range) coming out as I was going in. I don’t recall seeing young people voting early before.
My wife is voting tonight, one of us always bring the kids along. We want them to vote when they are adults. I hope she remembers to ask about the numbers. I think she will have a wait but at least the voting is at my son’s school. I will return to rescue the kids if it is an exceptionally long wait.
Oh, I voted for Obama!
Jim
Polls opened at 6 am here in NYS, so I took my 2 year old with me to the fire house and we got there at 6:50. I was done by 6:54. There were about 20 cars there, but there was no line to sign in and I waited about 10 seconds for a booth to open up.
When I told my daughter that we were going in to vote for Barack Obama, she got excited and said, “Bock Obama??” and started looking around for him like he was going to be there. Not likely as he’s probably already got a beef with Rensselaer County as it is.
There was one person in front of me at the Post Office when I mailed in my absentee ballot a few weeks ago, and they were about done. Cost me $0.51, though.
Lawrence KS chiming in. I left the house about 6:50am and walked the two blocks to the elementary school that is my polling place. Good thing I walked – the parking lot was already full when I got there. Probably about 100 people total in line when the polls opened at 7am. I was done by around 7:30, which really wasn’t much longer than it has been the last couple of elections.
Polls opened at 6:00 am. Got there just before 7:00. No wait. No line.
My wife voted early at the township hall last week. Had to wait about an hour (or more?). While she was waiting a cheer went up and the volunteers shouted: “First time voter!” A young woman beamed. Sadly, it turned out that she had not actually registered and was SOL for voting. I suspect she won’t make that mistake again.
Central FL. Went to the little church by me; it’s an out-of-the-way polling place, so is generally very fast to get in and out of. The poll workers said they had about three times as many people as they had in the 2004 election, and that was at 10 AM.
I waited in line about 15 minutes for a booth, filled out my ballot, got my sticker, and did the happy “I Voted! I Made A Difference!” dance all the way to my car. 