20-25 minutes. It was a nice size line at 8am. Lt even came and gave all the workers knuckles, got his sticker and left. Easy peasy.
No panics, got excited to vote for Johnson and sooooooo excited at the possibilyt of being the first state to vote for same sex marriage. I am most excited about that!
20-25 minutes. It was a nice size line at 8am. Lt even came and gave all the workers knuckles, got his sticker and left. Easy peasy.
No panics, got excited to vote for Johnson and sooooooo excited at the possibilyt of being the first state to vote for same sex marriage. I am most excited about that!
me too! I'm going to be freakin' crushed if it fails.
How long did you wait? Anything interesting happen? Electronic machines or paper?
1. Waited maybe 10-15 minutes 2. The old ladies accidentally handed someone two ballots and that caused confusion and held up the whole line for about 5 minutes 3. Paper
20-25 minutes. It was a nice size line at 8am. Lt even came and gave all the workers knuckles, got his sticker and left. Easy peasy.
No panics, got excited to vote for Johnson and sooooooo excited at the possibilyt of being the first state to vote for same sex marriage. I am most excited about that!
me too! I'm going to be freakin' crushed if it fails.
What are the latest polls saying? Do you think SSM is likely to pass?
Post by meshaliuknits on Nov 6, 2012 11:14:17 GMT -5
I voted!
I waited for about 10min in the longest voting line I've ever seen in my life before someone said "Precinct 469, you can come to the front of the line!" I disapprove of this recent combining two precincts into one voting area.
Interesting, not really, but I saw my neighbor. I was surprised to find myself voting for George Miller. I thought we had been redistricted out of his area.
Paper ballots. I've never used one of those new fangled voting machine.
20-25 minutes. It was a nice size line at 8am. Lt even came and gave all the workers knuckles, got his sticker and left. Easy peasy.
No panics, got excited to vote for Johnson and sooooooo excited at the possibilyt of being the first state to vote for same sex marriage. I am most excited about that!
me too! I'm going to be freakin' crushed if it fails.
It is the only one I really care about today. Dream act too, but this more so. President, congress? Eh. My guy won't win so whatever.
me too! I'm going to be freakin' crushed if it fails.
What are the latest polls saying? Do you think SSM is likely to pass?
Last time I checked the polls said it was close, but it had a shot. But...then I read a totally depressing article about how that topic always polls better than it really does because people are embarrassed to admit that they plan to vote against (or something).
that was like...2 weeks ago? i haven't seen any more recent polls, but I also haven't looked because I didn't want my hopes dashed.
A mostly lurker chiming in to say I'm jealous of all of you with such short waits! I got there 10 minutes after they opened and it was 90 minutes in the cold (for Texas) with my 2 year old. Electronic ballots, but only 8 of them in a school that has almost 900 kids.
Early voting lines were crazy around here, too, with waits often over an hour. Clearly we need more polling places or more booths!
I just voted about 20 minutes ago. No line, no wait. This is PA, dammit. People had better be voting! I'm just going to assume they all showed up early.
Also, I'm thrilled to report that my polling station had a huge sign clearly marked, "NO ID REQUIRED TO VOTE." That's the law, period.
How long did you wait? About 3 minutes around 9:15am Anything interesting happen? An old man had just finished voting and as he was leaving he accidentally walked in between 2 voting booths instead of going all the way around, tripped on the electrical cord and nearly knocked both of the booths down. There was lots of panicked yelling. Electronic machines or paper? electronic
2. Nothing too exciting. The Republicans were handing out free coffee and people around me in line were talking about how good it'll be to get that Socialist out of office. We apparently live in the reddest neighborhood evah.
3. Electronic was our only option, but at least we had the machines that produce a paper record.
California sends sample ballots to our houses. They know better than to make people read all those freaking propositions for the first time on election day. Most people show up with the sample filled out, I think.
California sends sample ballots to our houses. They know better than to make people read all those freaking propositions for the first time on election day. Most people show up with the sample filled out, I think.
I totally had a cheat sheet. The ballot was four pages long! That would've taken for-ev-er if I was reading the props for the first time.
Post by Black Lavender on Nov 6, 2012 12:18:20 GMT -5
How long did you wait?
Got there about 6:15 and was about the 25th person in line. By the time the polls opened at 7 there was at least 300 people
Anything interesting happen? My name wasn't in the register, but when I insisted that the look under my maiden name, it was there even though I voted under my married name in every election since 2007. One of the lawyers (democrat) monitoring the polling place called out one of the Romney campaign volunteers for coming into the polling place. They were calling a judge when I was leaving.
California sends sample ballots to our houses. They know better than to make people read all those freaking propositions for the first time on election day. Most people show up with the sample filled out, I think.
I totally had a cheat sheet. The ballot was four pages long! That would've taken for-ev-er if I was reading the props for the first time.
dude, maryland's was several pages too, and they sent a sample ahead of time AND they were handing out samples to people waiting in line - but people were still standing there reading the whole thing in the booths. (at least that's what I assume they were doing while standing there for 10 minutes at a time.)
I did not get there until around 945am left around 100am. I would have been earlier but I had to go to the pharmacy and wentt early so I would have no waiting. Well of course I was there an hour and half so pissed.
It was smooth and painless at the voting. When I got there a lady gathered the five of us waiting and went though the process of what we needed to do. We had paper ballots and electronic machine that it feed's into when you are done. As we where leaving there was a line starting.
I went at 11am and was in line for about 35 minutes. It was perfect. I am also very glad I didn't go first thing this morning. The lady who checked me in said that the line was two hours long since people were already waiting by the door at 6am when she arrived to set up. Eek!
ETA: We had electronic machines at this polling location.
Northern VA...I waited over an hour. Paper ballot since there was only 1 electronic machine. There were big signs up saying people had to have an ID to vote.
I got to the polls right before noon and only had to wait about 20 minutes. The poll workers were saying that they lines had been really long all morning.
I got to the polls at 11:15am and was back in my car at 11:30. The lines for the first half of the alphabet were a lot longer than my line (which only had two people ahead of me). Yay for electronic voting! No shenanigans at my place either, besides a guy outside the polling place (out of the "no bugging people" boundary) handing out sample Dem ballots.
I totally had a cheat sheet. The ballot was four pages long! That would've taken for-ev-er if I was reading the props for the first time.
dude, maryland's was several pages too, and they sent a sample ahead of time AND they were handing out samples to people waiting in line - but people were still standing there reading the whole thing in the booths. (at least that's what I assume they were doing while standing there for 10 minutes at a time.)