I don’t know about today, but for early voting yesterday here in Orlando, FL there was a HUGE line outside the library I passed by. It was a couple hundred feet long probably, even longer than the damn lines at Disney 
Most people who waited in that line said four hours was the wait, but it varied. I’m really glad I voted absentee.
In Minneapolis, we were in line from 8:00 until about 9:30. A local coffee shop donated coffee, though, and it was a grand old time. It was so diametrically different from voting 4 years ago, when, as I walked in to the polling place, one of the volunteers actually said “Oh! Someone’s here!”
ZJ
I hit at lunch time (11:30 AM), and was out in about 45 minutes, but I made it through a little faster than most because my municipality had a few extra ballot initiatives that required me to use a different ballot than most others.
I left my apartment at 2:58, bought cigarettes, voted, and was back at my computer at 3:07. I’m in a non-swing state, and it’s a time when a lot of people are at work, but it was kind of a let down that there was hardly anyone there. I brought a magazine to read.
Voted at 2:00, no line at all, small trickles of people (I mean, it seemed steady, like all 3 booths would be full at one time, but only one person waiting).
Then again, I live in suburban West Hartford, CT, lots of working families and elderly, so I wouldn’t expect lines except before work or right after work.
I could go at 2:00 because I have a very enlightened employer (advertising agency) who gave the entire company (50+ people) a paid full day off to vote.
Wish more companies did that.
My dad voted in the South Hills of Pittsburgh early in the day. He reported a few people in line, but no wait.
I voted in the East Village, NYC, around 8:40 a.m. I admire the spirit of whoever went ahead and bothered to put the Republican choices on the ballot here. When I voted in the primaries earlier this year, I don’t think I saw a single other person there to vote.
Today, the place was packed to the gills. There were a few little old ladies. The rest of the crowd I would put at a more or less even split between professionals in their 20s and 30s struggling to hold on to their last shreds of hipness (hi!) and the traditional neighborhood denizens (I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone with green hair vote before, and it warmed my heart).
It took me about 15-20 minutes to find the right district and get through the line, but there were a few districts represented at my polling place. My district had a short line; others were in for a long wait. When I left, the line had begun to snake out onto the sidewalk.
I got to mine a little after 6, and (thankfully) the A-L line was moving faster than M-Z. I’ve never seen it that crowded, and I usually go after work. The woman in front of me timed it at 17 minutes for her to get to the check-in table. I didn’t pay much attention, but I was back in the car on the road at about 6:35.
I also skipped picking up a book at lunch that the library is holding because the parking lot was packed with voters, although the line wasn’t out the door.
Savannah, GA reporting in.
Left home at about 9:45, was home by 10:30. It wasn’t bad at all, about 20 people in line in front of me.
My wife, however, had to put in a provisional ballot. Seems they have her registered under her maiden name, despite the fact that we have specifically changed this twice. Someone’s not doing their job. :dubious:
I was in and out in ten minutes. No line at all; walked right up to the precinct station, signed in, collected my ballot, filled it in, slipped it into the machine, and left. Five minutes was signing in (very old guy); five minutes was doing the ballot (very long list of issues). That being said, all of the voting booths were full, and I got the last open one; when I left, there were a few spillover voters who agreed to use a side table rather than waiting for a booth.
This was this morning at about 8:15am, which I planned to be right between the pre-work morning rush (polls opened at 7am) and the late-morning day-shift rush. Worked out pretty well. Oh, and this is in North Seattle, wherein Baghdad Jim will be re-elected without even a whimper of protest from the non-existent opposition.
Bwa ha ha ha! 
I left work at about 1:30 and was back by 2:35. Total time in line: 30 minutes. There was a steady stream of people, with probably about 100 in line at any given time. One of the volunteers said that was the slowest she had seen it all day.
I don’t have any idea about which way my district leans. I’m in Madison, WI, which is very liberal, but I live on the edge of town, the more conservative area. Whatever everyone else did, I know I thoroughly enjoyed filling in the Kerry bubble on my ballot!
I arrived at the polling place at 6:20 am, 40 minutes before the polls opened. I was sixth in line.
Once 7:00 came, it took me all of two minutes to get my ballot and vote, but as I was leaving the line was probably near 200 people. The most I’ve ever seen at my polling location.
I drove past two other locations on my way into work, and the parking lots were overflowing with cars. People were simply parking wherever they could on sidestreets etc.
Mrs. Shibb just reported in. She’s in a slightly different precinct than mine (long story). Probably tilts conservative but just. About 15 minutes to get all through, including letting the Shibblets do the touchscreen stuff (at her direction). They were very excited to be participating in democracy, so much so that the Boy was “sssh’ed” by a neighboring voter. Sorry, ma’am!
I sneaked into my polling place around 4 p.m. The line-outside-the-building was gone, but there were still over 10 people ahead of me in line, very unusual for an off-hour. But still beats the hundreds I saw lined up at 7 a.m.
I voted at about 10:00 am and there was a line at least 200 feet long - I’m guesing there had to be more than 100 people there. My rommate just went (at apprx 3:00 pm) and said that there was no line when he got there, a line of about 5 after he finished (he had to register onsite).
Down here in Santa Cruz I just voted at 2:00 pm. Both rooms at the polling place had maybe half a dozen people between them. Then again, it’s Santa Cruz, so I guess there’s no real sense of urgency. I asked the nice lady if they had an “I Voted Provisionally” sticker (they couldn’t find me on the rolls). She gave me kind of a weird look.
–p
Voting in my town didn’t start until 8am, and I had to be at work for 7:45am, so I voted after work, around 4:45pm. No lines, no waiting. However, it took more than 5 minutes of waiting for the traffic to slow enough to get out onto the road, so I’m betting things were hopping just a few minutes later. There are only about 7,000 people (including a significant precentage of minors) in this town, though, so long lines are never an issue.
North of Dallas here. Plano, TX, to be specific. My wife and I voted early this time anticipating (and praying for) a big turnout today. We went to the local library and only had to wait for a few minutes. This was on a Sunday night around 6:30 PM.
We have the electronic Diebold thingys here now. I was checked in and given a smart card, which I then shoved into the machine. After carefully making my selections it popped my card back out, and I handed it to a young woman (very young - maybe 13) seated nearby, who offered me a not-at-all ironic “My Vote Counted” sticker in return. She stacked the cards up and occasionally unloaded them to one of the adult workers, who judging by the familiarity I’m guessing was her mother.
Piece of cake. I heard pretty similar experiences from other people who voted early around here as well.
Suburban Seattle (foothills), checking in. kiddoeaddi and I voted a half hour after the polls opened and we expected a long before-work line. There was no line at all and the poll workers were friendly and relaxed. The only thing I noticed that was different was a worker sitting next to the counting machine (or whatever it’s called) making sure voters had no trouble feeding in their ballots.
My polling place is actually in the lobby of my condo building in downtown Chicago. I was in and out in 2 minutes when I voted at noon. I was voter #256 on the day. Go Kerry!!!
My polling place was pretty sparse when I went at 8:00 this morning. There were no lines out the door this afternoon when I took my wife.
I did see a number of people (10 or so) filling out provisionary ballots though. That is pretty new.