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How long did you wait to vote? (1 Viewer)

anybody running into nutjob/testy/crazy fellow voters in line?

my voting place was busier than normal (normally empty for non-presidential elections)... and everybody was in a good, accommodating mood EXCEPT the guy right in front of me who was yelling at any volunteer who would listen about what line he was supposed to be in. WHICH ONE IS IT?! ... and of course, they don't collectively know, so each new person he screams at has to say "I don't know- what's your address"... which only makes crazy man crazier. good times.
 
I was trying to kid. 

don't think I have any energy left for outrage or conspiracies.
This barely even registered with me.

This one seems to be pretty clear, taking away voting options. Don't really see how that gets spun any other way except saving money or something. 

 
You states need to switch to vote by mail. Did it in my underwear. Mail it in and track online.
Texas does it right in my opinion. Early voting with lots of polling places all over. I voted at my University gym one year, then at the grocery store the next election.

 
Took about 30 minutes which is about 25 minutes longer than normal even in a presidential election year. One of the volunteers said they had seen more people by 8am than they usually see throughout the entire day.

 
about 45 min....IDK about anywhere else, but i'm not worried about voter fraud, I'm worried that the people working my polling place actually realize what they are doing. Holy crap!! I get it, they are volunteers, but my god they are unorganized. 

for my district there was a table, it was divided in 3 lines based on first initial of your last name....Q-X on the left, A-H in the middle and I-P on the right. The letters were hand written on a sign that hung below the table. There was no one working the line that stretched out the door as to which line you could go on....just everyone on one biggly line. Then where I was finally next, the women on the line to my right had an issue with her name misspelled in the rolls. So who does the volunteer call over? Yep, the woman working my line, the longest in the place while the volunteer to my left sat there with no one on her line, just looking at me and barely blinking. Now there is a congregation of 4 volunteers trying to find out what to do, so they call to a 5th who is out BSing with someone who is there to vote. "Bernice....Brrnice" they are yelling. But Bernice is hard of hearing, and full engrossed in the conversation about last nights Bingo, so she is oblivious. So, I walk over and say "Bernice, they need you" hoping that my book worker could get back to her station. Well Bernice can't help, so what do they do? Send the woman working my line (Remember, the longest line in the whole place) across the room to find someone else, while the 4 other people are still shaking their heads not knowing what to do...and the woman on my left still barely blinking. Finally she comes back and instructs the woman with the issue to step to the side and a supervisor will come help her. 

 
Dropped my daughter off at school, parked, walked in and dropped off ballots in school library. Easy peasy.

 
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We had these electronic stations this year where they took your drivers license and scanned it. I then had to sign the touch screen and all was good. That got me to the good stuff - the high tech touch screen voting station. Pretty slick. Was like playing a video game - Call of Doo-Doo.

 
35 minutes to find parking walk there stand in line and vote

not bad

only problem was I had some bad diarrhea farts so I feel bad for whoever was around me in line

 
CNN. Quick googling brings up some stories about some contentious laws that were passed then struck down but left a lot of places closed to early voting still.

I'm sure NC folks could explain it better. Closing early voting or making it more difficult seems impossible to explain. Seems like something everyone would be against.
Politicians who do this should be publicly executed.

 
15 minutes....one of two machines broken...raining....and the lady at the sign in desk was #####ing about all the democrats she has hated in the past.  I finally got to call the Commission with a complaint...feels more important than my vote did actually.

 
Took me 10 minutes max in Austin suburbs.  Biggest surprise was the staff.  Only one old lady, besides that one middle aged lady and 4 people in their 20's.

 
I imagine I might have to wait as long as 5 minutes or as short as no wait at all when I go.  The advantages of living in a small community with just over 100 registered voters.  After never having to really have to wait to vote I can't imagine what some go through.

 
Reason #1,000,001 that I love working from Home and living outside city limits.. Reports from the city are 45 to 60 minute waiting times even at 10am..

Me.. There was one person in front of me to vote, and that was only because I held the door open for her..

5 minutes tops from the time I parked my car until the time I :drive: away.

 
1:10.  Some polling place here have been insanely busy, others not.  Mine was.  They had 2 lines - A-L and M-Z.  A-L was 150+ people, M-Z was walkup.  Then about 15 minutes before I got to the front they changed it to A-G and H-Z.  I've never seen such confusion - if ever there was such a thing as a retirement community uprising it would look like that.

 
Colorado allows voting by mail, so no time spent at the voting booth. Did drop it off instead of mailing it in.

 
30 second line and I was in and out in 7 minutes total.  There are 576 polling places in San Francisco, which averages out to 11 3/4 per square mile.

The ballot had 17 state and 25 local initiatives which caused some backups on the semi-private booths.  I just sat on a bench near the window and filled in my ballot.

 
Didnt wait at all. Walked in, filled out my scantron, put it in the machine and walked out. Toughest thing was figuring which district I was in. That took 3 seconds. 

 
4 min drive to polling place, 2 min waiting for parking spot, 3 min giving name/getting ballot/filling out ballot/entering ballot into machine/getting sticker, 4 min drive back to work.

 
30 second line and I was in and out in 7 minutes total.  There are 576 polling places in San Francisco, which averages out to 11 3/4 per square mile.

The ballot had 17 state and 25 local initiatives which caused some backups on the semi-private booths.  I just sat on a bench near the window and filled in my ballot.
Things you can say about the election but not your gf.

 
30 second line and I was in and out in 7 minutes total.  There are 576 polling places in San Francisco, which averages out to 11 3/4 per square mile.

The ballot had 17 state and 25 local initiatives which caused some backups on the semi-private booths.  I just sat on a bench near the window and filled in my ballot.
Wow.  This common for SF, GB?

 
45 minutes

I did get a kick out of the woman in front of me who got all huffy when they didn't have her name on the rolls.  In my state you can register the day of, so the volunteer points her to that line, which has 8 people in it, AND tells her she can come back to the front of this line when she's done.  She says "but, I mailed my registration in, like, a week ago!"  Volunteer gives the blank look like "and what, I should just give you a ballot then?"

 
It was dead here in NC.  Usually have to park blocks away.  Got a spot at the front door.  No wait to check in.  Half the booths were open.

I said the money move was to wait when people early voting were waiting in lines.

 
Wow.  This common for SF, GB?
It's nuts.  The number of signatures required to qualify for the ballot varies by the type of measure but it's as low as 10,000 registered voters for some SF initiatives. 

The process spawns more initiatives because opponents of one will submit another slightly different take on the same issue.  There were two different California plastic bag propositions on the ballot this year.

I'm calling it now--in two years time, there will be a CA proposition forcing all marijuana to be sold in paper bags.

 
Walked in, voted Trump and marijuana, walked right out. Never a line where I vote other wise I wouldn't even bother. Look at all these saps standing in line on CNN. :lol:

 
5 people ahead of me when I walked through the door. Took less than 10 minutes, and that was with stopping to chat with a poll worker. 

 

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