# It's Officially Election Day **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 4, 2008, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-officially-election-day/471000 "2008-11-04T05:06:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 95
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-officially-election-day/471000/95 "2008-11-04T16:15:04Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > They’re performing an absolutely essential but horribly tedious all-day task helping to facilitate the single most important civic responsibility an American citizen bears, but jeezamighty why do most of them have to be near-centenarians? The same reason older people vote the most, I’m sure: older (retired) people are more likely to have the free time. > [@I done my doodie. How was your voting experience?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-done-my-doodie-how-was-your-voting-experience/471033/31): > > 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 got the same kind of “is there a problem?” reaction, and I was only in there for three to five minutes. There were very few races in my area this year - president, four judges (all unopposed, so I didn’t bother voting for them), a representative, an assembly race and I think a council member… and this is New York, where people start grumbling pretty fast. Sorry, people in line, I actually took the time to read the ballot initiative, too. 😛 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-officially-election-day/471000)._