Anecdotally, turnout is high in Boston. I waited in line for 20 minutes at my polling place, when in every previous election (local and national) I’ve walked right up and gotten a ballot with no wait. (And I always vote around the same time on my way in to work). Other friends are reporting longer waits in different areas of the city, including one 2+ hour wait this morning. And this after we had early voting for the past two weeks for the first time ever, which also saw good turnout.
Now, MA is easily going to Hillary and we don’t have any major senate or congressional contests, so I am pleased at what appears to be very strong turnout here and I hope that translates elsewhere in New England, particularly NH and ME.
Voted in Contra Costa county in the Bay Area around 9AM. The polling place was the local community center, and wasn’t too busy yet. Got in and out without any hassle. I was the 64th voter according to the tally on the machine into which I fed my ballot, but it’s kind of a small town, so I’m not that surprised.
They’re probably just carrying out instructions that they’ve been given. The state might not mandate ID but the officials might have been told to ask anyway.
Didn’t take long to vote. There were a number of people there, but no line as there were a lot of poll workers. Besides president there is an issue on our state ballot about retention(or not) of five of the seven Supreme Court judges. There’ve been a lot of tv ads about it so I voted for retention, as it will piss of our governor.
I voted this morning. I didn’t even consider voting early because our polling place is never all that busy. Also, I’m retired and can go at an off-peak time. At 10:00 or so, there were three people ahead of me waiting to get a ballot and about six or seven in the process of voting. Met a few friends from the neighborhood and walked home together (it’s at most a five minute walk). One of the said her two millennial sons voted early and had to wait hours. I’m glad I waited until election day.
A little old lady (I’d estimate in her mid 80s) stopped us to ask if the cross street we were near was “D” street. We told her one more intersection down and where the polling place was on that L shaped street. I was really curious who she was voting for. She’d obviously not voted in 7 or 8 years (since that’s been our polling place that long and she didn’t know where it was). My mental fan fic was that she was voting for Hillary.
Just got back from the polls. NY has the longest voting hours of any state, I believe, but no early voting. I was about fourth in line. Didn’t take long.
Happy to cast my ballot for HRC. Only sorry I couldn’t have spent more time campaigning for her this year as I have the last several presidential elections, but Real Life intrudes.
Conservative on economics and market issues
Liberal on social issues (Roe V. Wade AND 2nd Amendment safe no matter who gets in)
Atheist
Live in a very liberal state (NJ)
Not a fan of the Propaganda Ministry in the USA.
Zombie Apocalypse is upon us. Only way to stop it.
I was in and out in about five minutes, but the place is quite abuzz with people. The lot was full of cars and people were streaming in and out. A very efficient system, it seems to be at the local junior high school.
I voted the straight Democratic ticket and yes on all the referendums, including legalization of pot, just to assuage my soul.
Sat around until almost 3pm waiting for the Oldest Son to get home from work so we could all go together to vote. This was Middle Son’s first time voting. Gave up on OS (since he could get home any time from 2pm to 5 pm). Arrived at polling station just as Oldest Son pulled up
Middle Son was not sure if he had registered to vote so they started setting him up, Oldest Son had his license scanned, signed a form saying all info was correct and went to do his paper ballot. I was next and had to explain where we live: 1 mile away where the town used to be. Meanwhile they find that Middle Son had registered already so he was scanned, signed and sent to vote as well.
We all placed our ballots in the nifty scanner machine, received our stickers and were out the door in less than 10 minutes (MS took a bit longer since he wanted to make sure he was doing it right.)
I kind of miss the lever flipping machines that the big city we came from had vs fill in the balloon style voting.
Just got back from voting. Nearly broke the pen, pressing so hard when filling in the little oval next to Hillary’s name. There was no line, but the place was absolutely packed … and hot. Lots more voting stations than in any other year, and all were occupied. That’s good news, as this is a heavily Democratic area. Wish I could say that for the rest of the state.
I loved seeing, on CNN, all the women putting “I VOTED” stickers on Susan B. Anthony’s head stone. Beautiful. Maybe later tonight, we’ll see some glass ceilings shattered.
Got to the back of the line at about 7:05AM (polls opened at 7:00) and I was voter number 152. There were hundreds more in line by the time I got out of there around 7:55AM. Pretty typical for the evening lines in my precinct in south Minneapolis, however even one of the pollsters (maybe the judge?) came outside and looked at the line and announced “Wow! I expected lines like this at 6:00 tonight but not at 7:00 in the morning, thanks for coming out to vote!”
I thought it was kind of surprising myself, given all the hype around early voting around here.
Voter #1079 (two precincts). From the time I locked up my bicycle (the polling place is two blocks away) until I got back it took me ~10.5 minutes (that includes a lot of judges)
