<p>A 92 year old Catholic nun was in line one ahead of me at my polling station this morning. She was interesting to talk to. She was very alert mentally and had driven her own car to polling station by herself. She was funny…she said her motherhouse won’t let her drive past 9:00 p.m. or they will yank her driver license! Too, she said she was glad Florida allowed booze sales on election day because she might need a drink tonight even though she doesn’t drink. She had a cane and I let her cut in line in front of me–no one complained. I got out in 45 minutes, the nun got out in 15 minutes!</p>
<p>The lines for early voting last week were about 1.5 hours longs as only a few locations were opened. This afternoon I walked into my polling location’s main doors at 1:45 and walked out at 1:50! My husband said it also only took him 5 minutes when he went at 6:00pm; I expected him to have to wait a good while, so I didn’t have dinner ready :)</p>
<p>No line at 3 30 pm. No early voting in our state. I vote at the elementary school and waited till school was out for the day.</p>
<p>No line at all for me. I was in and out in five minutes…at 7 a. m.</p>
<p>NO line at 5:15 pm.</p>
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<p>I mentioned my 45 minutes at the polls this morning, but what I didn’t mention was how wonderful it was to catch up with old friends and neighbors I haven’t seen in awhile. :)</p>
<p>S voted around 1 this afternoon & only had a short wait. He was #580.</p>
<p>Two separate lines here (NYC): one to get your ballot and one to scan your ballot after you filled it out. Took about 20-25 minutes. Line for other half of the alphabet to get ballots was twice as long!</p>
<p>DH went mid afternoon. He said the lines were short.<br>
Public schools in our county are always closed on Presidential election years. </p>
<p>As DH was headed toward his truck in the parking lot, a scruffy looking older man came up to him and asked him for a ride home. Said his D had dropped him off and wasn’t coming back for awhile because she assumed there would be long lines. DH had no idea who this man and was a little leery about going to the man’s neighborhood (high crime area) but told him to get in and off they went. The old guy didn’t vote for the Pres. candidate that DH voted for and spent the entire ride declaring anyone would be an idiot to vote for that other guy.</p>
<p>City of Pittsburgh. No line at 5:15 pm with four voting machines for our precinct but a steady stream of voters. Approx. 475 had voted before me. On the other side of the room, not only was there no line there was almost no voters. They said they had about 350 vote. Even though the numbers seem low, they are higher than past elections.</p>
<p>I got to my polling place (Cambridge MA) at 7:40 and left around 8:35. What I found really interesting was that it was inside a senior apartment complex, so we had lines doubled around the hallways outside people’s apartment doors. This fact didn’t really register to me until we all had to move out of the way for somebody leaving his apartment and make room for him and his walker.</p>
<p>Washington state is vote-by-mail only. I didn’t realize we were such an anomaly. I voted a couple of weeks ago, as soon as I received my ballot. So…no lines, no voting booths. Oh, and you do have to pay for your own stamp!</p>
<p>My son said he voted at HS across from MIT with little lines. I spent 5 hours at my local polling station, and we had no lines other than at 7 a.m. (When I wasn’t there) . We gave cookies and candy and water.</p>
<p>I waited almost 3 hours in line to vote today and much of our area (different voting sites ) had similar waits. They had one flakey scanner to insert all the paper ballots. People are still on line now. As long as you got on the line by 7 you can vote. I think that in this day and age there must be a better way!!! Florida’s final tally won’t be in anytime soon.</p>
<p>They’re saying people are still in line in Virginia, too.</p>
<p>I only waited a couple of minutes. My son, in Connecticut, waited 2.5 hours in 40 degree weather to vote for the first time. He said the ballot was so complicated that people needed a lot of time to go over it which slowed things down. He said some people had a much worse wait.</p>
<p>We in Oregon are lucky, also, in voting by mail. I browsed through my Oregon voter guide and voted while drinking a glass of red wine.</p>
<p>Some people in line at 2 am in Florida ? What’s up with that?</p>
<p>I was a volunteer at local polling place all afternoon/evening in FL. Only early in morning was there a line. Seriously, absolutely no line from 8 a.m. Thru the day. Weird. I wonder if we have more polling places. My friend in Delray got there at 7 a.m. And was finished in 15 minutes.</p>
<p>I waited less than 30 minutes but other precincts were waiting more than an hour. Lines remained long most of the day, even though early voting was high in our county. I am in Indiana, though other Hoosiers don’t like to count my county :)</p>
<p>I waited in line an hour at 10:30 am. Turned out that my voting place was the most crowded in our area. It really wasn’t bad though. I went with my friend and we both saw several people that we hadn’t seen for awhile. It was inside and warm and the church where we voted (their auxiliary building) had baked goods and hot beverages available for a donation. What did make most of us a little ticked off was the lack of urgency among the workers and the fact that you could see empty voting booths the whole time because the workers couldn’t keep up with the voters.</p>