Easy. There was no line, so I was in and out in 10 minutes, maybe less.
Note: I don’t mind showing an ID to prove I am who my voter registration card says I am.
That said, I’m always a little bit miffed when I proudly hand over my driver’s license and voter registration card and the voter registration card is tossed aside while my ID is scrutinized.
What’s the point of registering to vote then? Why not just vote with my DL?
I voted a couple of weeks ago. As always, the poll workers were cheerful and professional. The polling place was quiet; people were there to vote, not to talk. The whole thing took less than 15 minutes from the time I left my car. I’d call it a very positive experience.
When we had polling places, we never needed to show our voters registration card. They had a list of register voters. Only our drivers license would be necessary to prove we were the person on the list. Of course, I don’t ever recall being ask to show it. If we gave a name that was on the list, we could vote.
Celtling asked to go to the polls with me. She wanted to see what voting was all about. I was thrilled, and said “Yes” immediately.
Turns out she thought that A) We would be voting at the White House and -once she found out that wasn’t true- B) She would at least get to see Mr. Obama at the polling place.
My local polling place turned out not to have me listed. A little online detective work confirmed the unthinkable: I was expected to vote in my old neighborhood, where I haven’t lived for almost eight years now. (And yes, I’ve filled out the forms to change this at least three times since then, as I’ve moved three times!!) time to stand on line, find this out, and get the info: 1 hour.
So then we drove from Burke to McLean at what was by now rush hour. !.25 hours.
Celtling was hungry by now so we had to stop for food. .4 hours. (and 20 bucks)
Parked at polling place and stood on line to vote 1.5 hours.
Drove Celtling to school and then returned home - because I’ve got strep throat and am supposed to be resting - 1.3 hours.
In short, it sucked. But nothing was gonna stop me.
We don’t have to show ID here in Nevada. We DO have to sign our name, and a copy of the signature from our Voter Registration and/or from previous elections is in the book of registered voters. If the signatures don’t match, bad things will presumably start to happen.
I live in Euclid, OH.
My polling place was a local church. No lines, busy but fairly quiet. A poll worker checked my name on a list at the door to direct me by last name to the table which held my name and address on the voting rolls. I showed my Driver’s license to the poll worker at the table, signed my name in the roll and received my scan-tron sheets. Had to wait about 15 minutes to use a booth. While not crowded, our scan-tron sheets were 6 pages long with several wordy issues on the ballot, so filling it out took a bit of time. Took my filled sheets to another poll worker stationed at the receiving machine, she checked that I removed the stubs from the bottom of the sheets and entered them correctly into the machine. She also handed out the “I Voted Today” stickers.
In and out in just over 30 mins.
Hah! I took my 4 year old son with me this morning. He’s fairly well versed in in the candidates, asking me if i was voting for “Mich Rommey or Barak Omama”. He also asked to come with me to the polling place. I** thought **it was because he wanted to observe the election process - Turns out that the real reason that he wanted to come was because he remembered them handing out chocolate dougnuts to the kids the last time we took him voting with us - amazing given that fact that he was only two years old at the time!
They did not have chocolate doughnuts today, and he was quite sore about it. 
Got there 5 minutes early, waited in a very short line, got shuffled through with no problems, fed the machine my ballot and was out in 10 - 15 minutes total (including the wait). I was #10 - one of these days I’ll get there early enough to be #1!
Only strange thing was they had the booths facing the line up to get a ballot. All a bored person in line would have to do is look slightly to the right and they could watch people fill out the ballots. I guess it’s not a huge deal, but it didn’t seem like there was any reason they couldn’t have just turned them around the opposite way so they faced a wall and made it significantly more private.
And for what it’s worth, I’ve never had to show the voter registration card either. I remember the first time I voted my dad insisting it was super important and I had to bring it to be allowed to vote but that year and all the years since (in 3 different polling places) they’ve NEVER asked for it and I never even remember anyone pulling it out to hand to the workers either. I don’t know what the point is, I still keep mine in a safe place but I could have thrown it out for all that it’s mattered.
Spouse and I registered to vote in early September when we got driver’s licenses for our new address, but neither of us were on “the list” when we went in to vote. So we had about an hour wait in the registration line, instead of the 5 minutes it would have taken otherwise. If (when) voter ID amendment passes in Minnesota, election day registration will probably not be an option, so I guess we would have just been out of luck.
I received my absentee ballot by mail in early October, and I returned it in person at the board of elections office in late October.
My voting this morning was delayed, but only by a poll worker making a report to some other official about a possible attempt at voter fraud. The poll worker had challenged the voter on something (didn’t hear what it was), and rather than discuss or dispute the issue the voter had literally run away from the polling place. I’ll scout around the local news sites later and see if there’s any more info about the incident.
Akron, Ohio. I’ve done this enough times that I know not to go early today.
Went on my way home, 5:45. Walked right in and voted.
Went to my normal polling place (a church). Small line when I arrived at 4:15pm. When I completed my paper ballot, there was a loooooong line to get the ballots tabulated. The one-and-only tabulation machine had had a seizure.
10 minutes later it started working again.
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Went in around 7:15ish, stood in line about 10 minutes, did my thang thang, stuck my ballot in the machine. I was voter #129.
I went to vote and was asked if I wanted a paper ballot or to use the touchscreen. I opted for touchscreen and was told it would be a 40 minute wait.
I looked around and there were perhaps 5 other voters waiting ahead of me so I asked why it would be so long, did they not have enough machines? The response - “we have plenty of machines, but none of them are working, the technicians are trying to figure it out”.
Being the practical type I said I changed my mind and would like a paper ballot, filled that sucker out in about 3 minutes and as I was walking out I saw the other 5 people standing at the judges desk asking for paper ballots 
There’s something to be said for doing things the good old fashioned way.
Hooray for early voting! About 41% of North Carolina’s electorate voted early, so that made voting a breeze this morning.
I was greeted outside the poll by about half a dozen people pushing their candidates. One of them asked me if I wanted a list of conservative candidates, but I told him I preferred to make my own decisions when voting.
I vote in the gym of a Baptist church. Four years ago, when I arrived there was a line extending outside the gym and into the hall. Today, I walked straight in to the registration table. There were four people working the table, but the two people ahead of me were both from my part of the alphabet.
We do op-scan paper ballots. You can either wait for a privacy booth, or just mark your ballot at an open table. I was able to walk right up to an open booth.
I fed my ballot into the counter at about 7:30, about an hour after voting began. I was number 193 in my precinct.
Stopped on my way home from work. It took 20 minutes, most of which was spent crawling around looking for a parking spot, since my polling place is an elementary school, which are not known for having large parking lots. Eventually I, and some other trucks, just parked on the grass.
After that, there was no line to vote. There was a bit of a line (30 people?) to register. I’ve seen longer lines for the primaries. Had to show my ID, but I don’t mind.
Easy breezy. My polling place is a five minute walk from my house, so I got there at about 8:00a and waited maybe five minutes. The only difficulty I ever have is that the guy I’ve checked in with at every election since 2000 is deaf as a post and about 137 years old, bless. We have a little routine. I yell my address a few times, he hears it, starts turning pages, forgets it, and we repeat until one of us finds it.
We use the good old-fashioned scantron ballot.of which I’m a fan. People were happy and chatty. Totally pleasant experience.
I much prefer the paper ballot. That’s the only way I’ve ever voted (and I’ve been voting for 30+ years.) I remember when I was a little kid going in to a mechanical voting booth with my Mom, but it has always been op-scan paper ballots since I began voting.
I think it’s far more practical. There is negligible cost to provide multiple empty booths with pens for voters. If the single op-scan reader breaks down, it can easily be replaced, and no votes are lost.
I’ve always thought that if individual voting machines or touchscreens were used, if someone really wanted to obstruct the vote, they could just collect a number of volunteers who could go in for their vote and just sit there and take forever to make their vote. Is there any time limit given to voting on machines that would prevent someone from just camping out in the voting booth and discourage other voters that way?