******* THE OFFICIAL "HOW LONG WAS THE LINE" THREAD ******

[RoadRage]

Alright.. Please post below after you voted so we know how turnout compares this year to 4 years ago:

In the Subject Line just put your state & time waiting in line and then in the body please post if that is longer, shorter or about the same as 4 years ago.

I'll start!

[RoadRage]

1. NE - 1 Hour

2004 I waited 15 minutes... it's 45 minutes longer this year!

[stray cat]

2. Westchester NY less than 20 min

[leftynyc]

49. Also Westchester NY

40 people in line at 2 minutes to 6AM. Only reason I made my 6:30 train was because people who didn't have to get to work let me sneak ahead of them. Many smiling people in that line.

Edited to add: I never had a line before today. Always vote between 6-6:15AM

[Burma Jones]

92. When I lived in Westchester, I really enjoyed voting with the old reliable Lever.....

Something about that "Chuh Chunk" as you pulled the Lever, cast your ballot, the curtain opened and you thanked the poll workers........

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

97. Westchester too! 5 minutes. :)

[Chorophyll]

142. Gotta love Westchester. About 10 minutes...

...and the old reliable lever machines. The lines were twice as long as in 2004, but people are quick around here!

[LynneSin]

3. Wilmington DE - about 45 minutes

an elderly couple came in that as having difficulty walking but didn't want to miss the chance to vote. I got an election official and insisted they get them through the line so they wouldn't have wait too long.

[Jennicut]

103. Joe was there this morning! I didn't know you were from Wilmington

home of your future VP!

[ThatsMyBarack]

4. When I voted on Oct. 15....

The whole thing took about 20 minutes, paper trail and all! :patriot:

[timber84]

5. NC

none, I early voted 2 weeks ago

Starbucks was way long this morning though.

[greguganus]

56. Did you go off on anyone at Starbucks? n/t

[ellacott]

6. Cleveland, OH 1hr

2004 about 15 mins

[Drunken Irishman]

36. YAY!!!!!

[meow2u3]

7. Bucks Co., PA--30 minutes

I went to vote at about 7:45 and proudly cast my vote for Obama at about 8:15.

[hisownpetard]

8. My son voted in L.A. county on Sun. at the ONE polling place that was open, and

was standing in line for 6 hours.

Said it was worth it, to vote for Obama!

[Roland99]

9. Louisville, KY - 3-4x busier than 2004 but I was in/out in 10 min.

[Epiphany4z]

10. cuyahoga falls OH

no line but a good steady flow with no empty booths.

[MI4Obama]

11. Michigan, 0 min.

I wasn't old enough to vote 4 years ago so I can't answer this part.

[Motown_Johnny]

71. no line in Livonia? Damn I waited over 2 hours on Detroit's east side

[Chimichurri]

12. Over an hour in NJ. I never have to wait! The line started forming at 5:30am!

The energy was electrifying and everyone was being so kind to one another. That experience alone gave me hope that we are headed towards brighter days.

U.S.A.! U.S.A!

The right wingers don't have an exclusive copy rite to pride of country so I'm taking it back from their stranglehold today.

[onefreespiritedchick]

13. This is why I vote absentee. n/t

[workinclasszero]

14. Missouri...One hour

Much longer than I have ever seen there. This was just after 6AM, it was still dark outside!

Lots of young voters and AA folks too. I got such a good feeling...I'm so hoping Barack takes Missouri today!

[lisa58]

15. Only about 10 minutes in NJ, but the fact that we weren't the only ones in line was unusual...

...my husband and I walk to the firehouse every year to vote and usually we're the only ones there. Today we saw the traffic going in and out of the parking lot as we approached the building. There were people there with their kids and two machines (that's usual). There were two people in front of us, and while we were waiting to vote about eight people arrived.

The woman manning the voting machines said that there were over 200 voters since the polls opened at 6:00AM. We close at 8:00PM so I'm gonna bake something for them and bring it over at about 1:00PM and see what's going on.

It was an absolute honor to vote for Obama today!

[Pendrench]

16. Less than 20 minutes....Maryland, Congressional District 1 n/t

[MorningGlow]

17. Rural western NY--0 minutes

Walked right in, signed in, voted, and left in about 60 seconds (most of the time taken to read over the vets proposition on the ballot), just like always.

[ratherunique]

18. nj: in and out within 5 min

[RockaFowler]

19. I voted on Oct 24th

We waited for 45 minutes to 1 hour to vote (loved it)

When I voted in 2004, there was no wait on election day. something really feels different this time.

[thrift_store_angel]

20. Suburban Maryland 2.5 hours.

It was in and out last time.

[leftyclimber]

21. I was 9th in line was out in 20 minutes

but only because I had to wait for my SO. I don't think it took more than 10 minutes to check in and do the whole ballot.

I voted in Oregon the last election, and I'm in West Virginia now, but the turnout was definitely heavier than the primary.

[BklynChick]

22. Brooklyn, NY.... 2 hrs.... way longer!

[apnu]

23. Chicago, Northside Ward 44 hour long at 6:10 AM. Voted at 7:08 AM. (nt)

[tinymontgomery]

24. Waited

5 minutes 2004, 40 minutes today.

[JTFrog]

25. A-M had about an hour to hour and 1/2 wait. N-Z had at most 5 minute wait.

Once in a while they would call out for L-M to go to the other line which never had more than half a dozen people in it.

[alsame]

26. Westchester County, NY. 15 minutes.

[Maureen1322]

27. SE PA. Waited 1 hr and 15 minutes, never waited before.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

28. NYC - 15 minutes.

[globalvillage]

29. Suburban Pittsburgh

10 min when the polls opened, but the line was unusually long. I was #10, and there were a dozen behind me. Typically there isn't a line.

Seemed like mostly straight Dem ticket voters from what I gathered. I think that's what we'll see here in SW PA.

I did hear about problems with some machines in the city. Hopefully that's cleared up by now.

[Ferret Annica]

30. It was easy, Got my Oregon mail in ballot from my P.O.Box

I filled it out right there in the Eugene main Post Office, and walked it a few blocks down to election central and dropped it in the slot.

The agony, the pain and boredom, oh my. Everyone should do it Oregon's way.

[Imperialism Inc.]

31. Ohio. Working class suburb. 1 1/2 hrs from poll opening and I was

there a half hour before they opened.

[Midlodemocrat]

32. No line at all. But I understand at 5:20 this morning there were 100 people in line.

[Maiden England]

33. From Youngsville LA

Hubby just texted to say there are 50 people ahead of him in line in our little town. He has never had to wait before!
Said they all looked happy and excited to vote.

As for me, I can't vote, still only a Green Card holder, but next election I'll be eligible to give Obama his next four years.

[seemunkee]

34. 1:15 MD burbs

Mostly it was a problem with the new electronic poll books, once those got fixed things started moving along smoothly.
This is a new polling place so can't compare to last presidential election

[VWolf]

35. Northwest NJ - 2 minutes

[HalbyVA]

37. VA - 45 minutes

Fairfax County. Arrived at the polls at 5:40 AM (slept horribly last night). Line was about 100 long and growing fast. Voted at about 6:25. Lines moved very quickly because they had opitcal scan ballots as compared to the touch screen machines used in 04 and 06. My wife went at 9 AM and there was no line.

[Meshuga]

38. North Potomac, Maryland -> 1 hour

In past elections I was in and out of there in 15 minutes at the most.

[TZ]

136. Germantown, MD...1 hr 40 minutes!

I waited 45 in the primaries but before that no longer than 30 minutes....

[Bright Eyes]

39. New Jersey, about 3 minutes

First time voting, so I can't say what it was 4 years ago.

[tapper]

40. None in eastern Lawrence, KS

I walked over. #140 (about 45 minutes after opening). Half-hour lines at the early-voting at the courthouse yesterday morning.

Voted early 4 years ago (so I could volunteer to be a poll-watcher), so can't comment on difference.

[RoadRage]

64. My uncle is a dentist in Lawrence...

He owns his own practice and advertises on the radio all of the time.. he's a republican though, so I hope he has a lot of cavity's to fill today and can't get to the polls. ;)

[NOVA_Dem]

41. Alexandria VA, 2 1/2 hrs!

[brentspeak]

42. Heavier than usual here in my slightly-sleepy northern NJ town

Just got back from voting for Obama (and Dennis Shulman). About a four-minute wait. Usually, I'm lucky if I encounter one other voter. Today, there were five or six others waiting in line to get their voting slips, and the election people told me they'd been through 200 voters already.

[racaulk]

43. Dekalb County, Georgia - about 1.5 hours

I arrived at 7:40am and there were about 200 people in line ahead of me. I was done a little after 9:00am. The line was moving kinda slow, but people were in good spirits and pleasant overall, so the wait wasn't too bad. There were about 12 machines for voting.

In 2004, I lived in a different precinct and voted a different time of the day, so I can't really compare the two experiences.

[Citizen Jane]

125. Which precinct?

We vote in Avondale Estates and my husband said there were about 100 people in front of him in the line, but he only had to wait about a half hour.

[racaulk]

135. I voted at Atlanta Metropolitan Church on Briarcliff Road, just north of Ponce.

I live over in the Va-Hi/Emory area. Hi neighbor! :hi:

[Citizen Jane]

152. Hi back atcha!

:hi:

[EnviroBat]

44. N.E. Columbus Ohio.

In and out in 15 min. No problems, my registration was in the book even though my drivers license has a different address. I brought a couple of utility bills along with me, and there was no problem. I voted on a paper ballot which took about 10 min to complete. It was a great and easy experience for me, hopefully that's is a good omen that we've got this thing in the bag! I took the next couple of days off from work as I have been having heart issues. I'll be glad when this is over and Barack is our president.

Here's the funny thing though. I was looking at the page of registrations on which my name appeared and in the boxes where you are to sign the form, there were quite a few that had a message that the person was not eligible to vote. I saw many more of these than makes me comfortable... There were at least 6 on the page where my name was located.

The poll workers told me that I'd arrived at a good time as there were some long lines about an hour before I'd arrived.

[cjsmom44]

45. No Wait

We live in a small town of 2500 registered voters...800 already cast their vote
I walked right in...no line at all.....

[JohnnyBoots]

46. NOVA ...around 2 hours.

[jpljr77]

47. Suburban Maryland (Silver Spring) - about 150 people waiting in line at 6:45

I passed, and will go back in early afternoon. My wife said it took about 30 minutes at 9:30am.

[bobd0]

48. Mercer County NJ steady stream of voters at 7 AM but little or no wait

Our polling place had about six or seven districts set up at separate tables, two voting machines per table, about ten people in line at each table being with a steady turnover of voters maintaining that number while I was there. It took about ten minutes to vote. The parking lot was full and all the streets around the polling place were lined with cars. I drove by later and the parking lot was still full but there empty spaces on the street. Heaviest voting I ever saw here. I expect it will be heavier later as people vote after work.

[CatsDogsBabies]

113. 1 hour 15 minutes (arrived at 6:10 a.m.) in Mercer County NJ

3 districts were voting at the one polling place, each district had its own line. Two of the districts had wait times of over an hour.

[debbierlus]

50. Western MA - Steady traffic coming & going. No wait

Not because there weren't lots of people voting.

It is because they had enough booths & volunteers to keep it going smoothly. There is NO reason for these long lines.

Rachel Maddow is right. It is a poll tax.

[Arger68]

51. No line at all - small town Minnesota is very

voter friendly! Paper ballot, fill in the ovals, very quick & easy!

[pagam]

52. Philadelphia

45 minutes. 2004 about 15 mins.

[sakabatou]

53. Voted by mail

[Captiosus]

54. Newport News, VA - 1st Congressional District/93rd General Assembly District: 1 hour 45 minutes.

If your last name was P-Z.

A-O got to go right in. =/

They offered to let us use the touch screen - I just laughed and said, I'll wait for them to get more paper ballots from the storeroom, thanks.

[OwnedByFerrets]

55. Mobile AL........200 ppl.....1 hr....then it got longer.

[riqster]

57. Rural Ohio, 1 hour

...I voted absentee last time, so can't say if the line was longer or shorter than '04.

Everyone was very nice regardless of political affiliation-small towns, people have to get along between elections. I managed to get at least one other person to vote a paper ballot, which made my day.

[NJGeek]

58. Suburban NJ - 20 minutes - usually no wait

[amborin]

59. folks leaving the long lines in liberal Missouri: from a blog complaining:

"eport from the trenches. (Kansas City, MO--polls open at 6:00)

My wife and I arrived at our polling place at 5:30 this morning. There were some 50 people ahead of us in line. Voting finally started at 8:00.

The sign in books had been switched with another location. They sent a guy out to make the switch and he brought back the wrong books for yet another location. So at this point this has affected at least three polling places.

During the time we were there, we saw people leaving because they had to get to work, etc. We live in the most liberal zip code in the state of Missouri.
This smells mighty fishy to me.

I spoke with an Obama campaign worker and he told me that there are lawyers on the scene who are working to make sure the polls are open for the full 13 hours.

If you were a part of this fiasco and had to leave, please, please make it back and vote."

hope this is being taken care of!!!!!!

[JackBeck]

60. It took me about 5 minutes to vote and my husband 10 minutes in New Jersey.

But there was definitely more people at the church than there had previously been and there was a buzz in the air.

We went a little after 9am, and from the looks of it, there was definitely a rush before work.

[k8conant]

61. Mannings, Jefferson County, WV - 30 minutes

I waited from 6:45 am to 7:15 am. Completed an exit poll on the way out.

[rasputin1952]

62. No line at all in my district, I walked in, got my ballot, voted and

figure Obama is going to win.

It's early yet, I suspect people will go after work. I did see a couple come out as I was going in, they had a McCain/Palin bumper sticker, but the looked like they were going to either cry or puke...:D

[yourguide]

63. Brooklyn NY - 1 hour

longer than 4 years ago - usually around 15 mins.

[Sparkly]

65. Another Maryland Suburb -- just a few people, BUT

we've never, ever even had to wait behind a few people... For us, three people in line is three times normal.

[funkybutt]

66. New Orleans: 3 people deep...5 minutes

I kinda wish I could have waited longer.

:hi:

[Hellataz]

67. Chico, Ca. no more then 15 minutes

But keep in mind it's normally half that time the last few elections i've gone to this polling place. I got there at 7am on the dot and there was already a small line and lots of people driving into the parking lot. I'm not sure how much this differs, since normally i would vote after work but I not working today so i went first thing.

[Reeta77]

68. Houston, TX - 30 minutes (Early Voting)

I voted in San Antonio, TX last election, so can't really compare (for the record it was only 10 minutes in SAT; on election day).

[Motown_Johnny]

69. Detroit MI.. 2 hours plus a bit

immeasurably longer than any other voting cycle including 4 years ago.

no comparison

[shagin]

70. Chicago South Side, 0 waiting min. Time to fill out ballot, 9 min. nt.

[spanone]

72. nashville, voted @8:50 only one voting....no line

[Tracer]

73. Suburban Boston...

I voted at my local elementary school at 10:30.

Tons of cars pouring into the parking lot.
Policeman directing traffic (that never happens!)

In and out in 5 minutes.

That's because the polling place is super efficient. State name and address, get ballot, go to one of at least 24 booths, fill in little ovals, drop ballot in scanner and leave.

(I wore blue jeans, blue sweater and a blue vest. Oh, and the sky is very blue today!)

[AngryOldDem]

74. SW Ohio, suburb of Dayton

Got there at 6:10, about 10 people in line; when the polls opened at 6:30, there were roughly 50. When I left at 6:45, everyone was inside. (Vestibule was big enough to handle 50 people.)

In 2004 I voted about an hour or so later, and there was a long line and a wait. If I had to guess, I would say this year is comparable to 2004, if not a little heavier. I'm going to be going past my voting location in a little bit and I'll be interested to see if there is a line outside, or if the lot is full.

[bushmeister0]

75. Philly: About two minutes.

Same as last time.

[sabra]

76. North suburb of Chicago - no wait!

[Eyerish]

77. Eden Prairie, MN 30 mins...

from getting in line to getting my "I voted" sticker. I did take a few extra seconds to stand there and look at my ballot with the Barack/Biden Oval filled. It filled me with such hope and pride. :patriot: :kick:

[Hansel]

149. LOL. I did that 3 times up in Coon Rapids.

Good thing there were 2 sides to the ballot so I could pretend I was just flipping it back and forth to review it. I loved seeing the Barack/Biden oval filled in. :patriot:

[shaniqua6392]

78. About 40 minutes in Livonia, Michigan.

I would have waited all day though. It was a lot heavier this year than it was 4 years ago.

[hedgehog]

79. Rural Central New York - Oswego County - no wait at 6:30 BUT

we were number 38 and 39 in our precinct. I've never voted this early in the morning, so I don't know if that's the normal "before work" crowd or not. We used the traditional style mechanical voting machines because NYS hasn't approved any electronic ones yet. AS far as I know - they haven't even found a testing process that's fool proof!

My youngest pulled the switch for Obama and we both put our hands on the lever to register my vote - she won't turn 18 until March. We got home in time for her to make her school bus.

[Phoonzang]

80. Newark, DE- 20 minutes at near the front of the line. nt

[myrna minx]

81. Minneapolis, Lowry Hill/Kenwood neighborhood, 2 hours.

I can't compare to last election, because I'm voting in a new precinct, so I have no basis for comparison. I arrived at election "rush hour" which was 7:15 am and finished voting about 9:15 am. My precinct was well organized and it went smoothly. Paper ballots to boot! My two hours were spent outside on an beautiful, unseasonably warm, sunny day. It was actually a treat to be outside, so no one was grumbling. :D

[truthisfreedom]

98. Amazing! I used to live over there on Douglas by Hennepin.

Really amazing that there was a 2 hour wait. I would have thought they'd have plenty of resources... it's such a well-to-do neighborhood on the edge of downtown, right by Lake of the Isles.

[myrna minx]

121. It really was amazing! The line went from the UU church all the way down Mt Curve well past the park

and then some! Everyone was is in a great mood, because it is a beautiful, sunny day and the precinct was well organized, but there were so many people who showed up, it just took a long time to accommodate us all. It was a really great experience. I moved over here from Uptown, so I was accustomed to crazy long lines, but quick voting at Jefferson School, due to the large auditorium accommodation, so this was a new experience for me, and a very fun and pleasant one. :hi: former neighbor.

[joop]

82. In line 6:45, got home 7:29

And worth every minute.

[LSK]

83. Dupage Cty, IL - busier than normal, but steady moving

This is a red area, they had twice to 3 times as many booths as normal which were mostly full but there was almost no wait.

[Morning Dew]

84. not long

I walked in, went to the table, signed in, got my ballot, voted.

7 minutes start to finish, perhaps.

NorthEast Minneapolis, MN

[orestes]

85. Had about a 20 minute trip from getting in line to casting my vote in L.A. County

[maddezmom]

86. The Woodlands TX, no wait

shorter than 4 yrs ago. I'm wondering if all the repubs are staying home or have already early voted. :shrug:

[atommom]

87. Northeast Kansas, less than 5 minutes. More people than last time, but not many more.

There was a lot more advance voting this year, so that may be a factor.

[pipi_k]

88. From a tiny rural community in Western Massachusetts

Took all of about ten or maybe fifteen minutes to walk into Town Hall, give name, get ballot, vote, give name again to outgoing poll worker, and put ballot into the (antique?) hand cranked machine.

That was at 9 AM or so


Poll worker said it was a bit more hectic there an hour earlier

[nyc 4 Biden]

89. Staten Island, New York - No Line

[Burma Jones]

90. Germantown, MD - Northwest High School - 20 minutes, line of about 50 people

Shorter time but about the same size line as Four Years ago.

We had 20 or so machines set up and people voted very efficiently......

The only Robo-calls we've been receiving over the last week had to do with the Maryland Slot Machine referendum.....gotta love living in such a safe Blue State.....

[TZ]

143. Really. Right accross the street it was a much different story

10 voting machines...I waited 1 hr 40 minutes much longer than last time.
Maybe time was the difference..I was in at 7am

[Burma Jones]

145. Fortunately, I work at home 4 days a week, so I went at 10

Did you vote at the new Elementary School?

[Beausoir]

91. Rural MN. 7am couldn't get near the polling place. 935AM..walked right in no wait.

[SweetAZ]

93. AZ 90 min

Much longer .....

[sunder]

94. Orlando, FL - 1 hour wait 9:15am

Definitely the longest I've ever had to wait to vote. Normally it's about 10-15 min wait.

[berni_mccoy]

95. Southern NH Small Town: VERY BUSY for 9 AM voting time.

Normally, I'm in and out in 5 minutes and there is no line. There was a line (waited about 3 minutes in it) and the parking lot was completely full. That usually happens between 7am and 8am, not 9am.

I'm expecting large turnout numbers for my town.

[npk]

96. Gwinnett County, GA. I waited 3 hours

I got to the polls at exactly 7AM and I officially cast my vote at 10AM. It's the longest I have ever waited to vote. But it was worth it.

[Jennicut]

106. Wow, good job staying in line for Obama!

[RL3AO]

99. There was 2 people in front of me.

There were 5 polling booths, but there were 10 people or so who just sat down at a table and voted. We don't need no stinkin' privacy! :)

[Larry in KC]

100. Kansas City MO -- 400 people in line when polls opened at 6am

In the past, there might be 15-20 people at that time, never more than 50, same precinct, same location.

[libnnc]

101. Winston-Salem, NC

Latham Elementary. 6:20-7:30 AM. Vote numbers 69 (me) and 73 (SO).

Line still about 50 people deep when we finished

[mikeargo]

102. Small "city" in NH

We have six wards in a "city" of 15K. I just got back, was in and out in five minutes. Good luck everyone!

[RiverStone]

104. No lines in WA as we mail in all our ballets (or drop off after filling out).

Why is not the whole country not on a mail in system? No lines?!

[cjsmom44]

105. Winterport Maine No Line

There was absolutely NO line at 9:30 am

[Lucian]

107. MN - Five Minutes

I went early, and I voted in a different district than I did in 2004. My wait was about the same as it was in 2004.

[AlinPA]

108. W PA, east of Pittsburgh-no line. Eight stations in the room were occupied.

[OKNancy]

109. 30 minutes. Tulsa - That may not seem long, but in my 32 years

in the same precinct in Tulsa OK...... I have NEVER waited.......ever.

[BoilerUp]

110. NW Indiana

In a very rural town of NW Indiana. I waited a 1:30 minutes. Usually when i vote it is 5 to 10 small college town. One girl came out with i voting for the one shirt on made me smile.

[Maine-ah]

111. maybe 20 mins. tops.

and that was time in line, to time to vote and leave. Polls didn't open for me until 10 am.

[HouObamaChapter]

112. Houston TX - 5 Minutes

15 minutes last year, so an improvement.

[NokeDem]

114. Just after 6AM I got there. Only waited like 20 minutes. This is VA...

[woo me with science]

115. Northern VA , about 20 minutes.

At 8am this morning, the line was around the block, but by 10am it was inside the door.

[BklnDem75]

116. 90 minute wait in Bronx, New York

Was 15 minutes in 2004 when I lived in Brooklyn. Arrived at 6:50 and the line was halfway down the block. When I left, the line was going around the corner.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

117. Illinois 6th near OHare. About 10 minutes, BUT...

I used the Sequoia touch screen, of which there were only two. Paper ballot booths were turning over more quickly.
That's just a little bit longer to wait than usual.

[adapa]

118. Conway NH, 5 min wait @ 9:30am

It was *very* well run. Voted here for 10 years, this is by far the best run & fastest voting day yet. Plus, they set up way more tables to regester, sign in, & voting booths.

[SalviaBlue]

119. No Waiting, but

this is good. I live in Central CA, a very republican/fundie/mormon/homophobic/assbackwards/etc. area where the religofascists are on the street corners with their children waving signs saying "Yes on 8" and cars drive by and honk their approval.

It is good that there are no lines here.

My Mormon neighbor was my poll official and he said "Good Morning, isn't this a nice day?" To which I replied "It's a BEAUTIFUL DAY!" I then proceeded to vote DEMOCRATIC and NO on 8.

I can't stop smiling.

[trackfan]

120. Longest ever where I vote.

I waited about 1/2 hour.

[RoadRage]

153. I'm hearing that a lot!

[Poiuyt]

122. No line in Appleton, WI at 10am

In and out in 5 min.

[Wolfies Revenge]

123. Chicago, Lakeview area no wait

No wait, but poll workers were flustered as one made a comment "we'll never get a break". Were about 4 people ahead of me.

About the same as 4 years ago but I do vote early morning when people are at work. This morning the man said he saw polling place line two blocks and three rows. That was at 7am.

[old mark]

124. Berks County, PA - We voted about 10:30 this morning, there was

no outside line, 6 people ahead of us inside. We have been using electronic machines for several years now with NO problems.
We were # 233 & 234 for our polling place, nearly twice the number we usually get for a presidential election. (For some local elections, we have been as low as 12 & 13) There were no lines, but there was a constant flow of voters entering and leaving the building.
Our county has 95,000 registered Republicans, nearly 146,000 registered Democrats, so a large turnout will help a lot, but we ALWAYS go Democratic in the national elections.
Vote if you haven't already - every one counts!

GOBAMA!

See ya after.

mark

[kskiska]

126. Spartanburg, SC - 2 hours

I arrived at 9:15. Local media advised to go mid-morning or mid-afternoon. The lines were longer when I left than when I arrived.

[midnight armadillo]

127. Massachusetts. 15 min.

It turned out to be the 7AM rush, on our way out there was a very short line, compared with the 40-50 in line when we arrived.

However, optical scan ballots can easily be filled out by a few dozen people at a time, so the line went quickly. Our precinct is always a well-oiled machine on voting days, in any case.

We were also interviewed by a local TV station (whdh), I think partly because we were the only ones there with kids (5 & 2.5) along for the ride. The reported chuckled when I referred to a potential McCain presidency as an 'endless disaster'.

[WinkyDink]

128. PA----20 minutes (Was there before the Polls opened at 7:00 a.m.!)

Bethlehem, PA.

[JimWis]

129. Wisconsin (small city) - 1 minute waiting in line time.

Same as 2004.

[treestar]

130. Delaware, 17 minutes

The line was shorter than 2004, I believe. But it could be due to more machines.

[endthewar]

131. Boston (downtown) - 1 hour. Idiots don't know how to redistrict the city.

Precincts 7, 8, and 9 all voted in the city library. Precinct 9 was a 1 hour wait, whereas precincts 7 and 8 were only a few minutes. The city obviously needs to either redistrict these areas or provide voting resources proportional to the voter populations.

[Anwen]

132. CA - 20 mins -- Longer than normal!

I don't recall ever having to wait that long before. I take it as a good sign! (I live in a red part of CA)

[BlooInBloo]

133. Just outside of downtown Seattle, about 30 min.

[w4rma]

134. Richmond, VA - Looks to be at least 2 hours. Also problems getting to the polling place.

Polling place:
RANDOLPH COMMUNITY CENTER
1415 Grayland Ave
Richmond, VA
23220-6002

There was a huge line when I checked this morning with people all the way down the sidewalk in rain-jackets and holding umbrellas. The one-way street was almost blocked off by a huge truck. And a police car was sitting at the unmarked detour. It looked like a huge mess, there.

[Captiosus]

137. Looks like Virginia is a major flustercuck, according to the voter protection sites

This year. :(

Funny, never had a problem when we were solid red.

The Our Vote Live blog has 774 reports from Virginia, including mine, and my area, Newport News, is second (only behind Fairfax) in number of reports.

At least people aren't leaving because of the rain.

[davidlynch]

138. CA - Ojai - 10 minutes tops

No problems, great people.

[jackstraw45]

139. Thousand Oaks, CA: 50 minutes A-K, 5 minutes L-Z

Longer than 2004 for the early alphabet....

[mrsadm]

140. Upstate NY small town Berkshire, less than 5 mins.

I drove up and there were six cars parked at the polling place. Inside, 2 voters and 5 poll workers. Waited maybe 2 minutes. It's this way pretty much every year. Lady at the voting booth joked saying "sorry you had to wait in such a long line!"

Town population about 1200. Sometimes I like living in a small town!

[MgtPA]

141. Bucks County Pa: 20 minutes. 2004 - 0 minutes (no line at all in '04)

[Hansel]

144. MN. No line. < 5 minutes.

I went at 9:30 today because I took the day off just in case. I was the 311th person to vote, my daughter 312th. This doesn't seem extraordinarily high as usually several hundred people are there in the early morning as some of the bigger employers encourage folks to vote before coming into work. We were given 2 hours off for this purpose.

1220 people voted in our precinct in 2004 and Bush won it with 53% of the vote so it is a somewhat conservative precinct.

Poll workers were asking each other how soon they think they will know who won the presidential race and one elderly man said begrudgingly it was going to be an early night. Good sign as most of the poll workers are elderly parishioners from the Catholic church I vote at. They are all fair, helpful, and honest people so no worries about voting issues despite them being Republicans.

[cmcdonald08]

146. York PA - 45 minutes

i've never had to wait in line to vote before - and this was at 10:30 am

[footinmouth]

147. Buffalo NY suburb - 20 minutes

I have been voting in this district since 1980 and I have never seen anything like this. The original line was out the door. Then we found out there were 4 districts in the same room. Once the lines started funneling into district lines things went much faster. I only had 5 people ahead of me. This is a huge turnout for my area.

[bluedawg12]

148. 5 minutes, small town, record turn out, In. n/t

[BlueStateGirl]

150. District 8 Bucks County PA- 40 minutes. Not a happy experience.

I don't mind the lines. It was the people I was in line with. Nasty, hateful people.
No one was taking the Democratic sample ballot. Lots of representation for Repub. candidates.

But when leaving, fair amount of cars with Obama stickers in parking lot.

[unsavedtrash]

151. Tuscaloosa, AL took about 1.5 hours and there were 238 people ahead of me at 7:10 this morning.

That was the number outside, not sure how many were inside. When I left there were around 250/300 waiting to get inside.
Much higher number voting this time.

[TheKentuckian]

154. Louisville, Ky, 10 mins. and I had a different polling place last cycle

Turn out was fairly heavy and one of the poll workers said we had more than doubled the primary final tally at noon and that the morning started with about 60 there waiting when the doors opened.

[1corona4u]

155. West Palm Beach-walked in, voted, under 3 minutes.

One person in front of me,. at 3:00 pm.

[On the Road]

156. Beltsville, Maryland

Prince George's County, northeastern suburbs of DC, 50+% African American

At 3:10PM, lines were two minutes long.

[Youphemism]

157. Fremont, CA... Lines in early morning, walk-in by 11:30.