Voting tales

[Erik]

I had to look it up. The average voting place here has beteen 1000 and 2000 voters. Few have more than 2000 voters, some have only a few hundred. (We are assigned a place to vote at on election day, if we cant get there we can also vote in advance at any post office.)
I tend to agree with cu74, if there are lines that long, there needs to be more places to vote.

[308Mike]

I REALLY think we should start using the purple thumb voting completion technique.

[Joe ex PNG]

It's still early voting at the moment, so there is a very limited number of voting locations. In my home county, typically the office of the Supervisor of Elections and a few select libraries.

Tuesday, on the other hand, there will be a lot of places open. And I will be working at one of them.

The great thing is that I will be in one of the few politics free locations in the USA, and cannot wait to never hear another campaign commerical- from either party.

[Darrell]

I did early voting today, got there early and it still took an hour. Lots of people of all sorts--young, old, white and various colors, you name it. There were a couple of very cute MILFs in line just ahead of me, it made the wait tolerable.

I don't want to hijack the thread or anything, but stories like this baffles me. Around here, voting on election day is done in 15 minutes tops, and that's if I really drag my feet and and want to read through all the material.

It's just to go on, pick up the paper slips for the party/parties I want to vote for (unless I brought it with me from home, we get it in the mail too), get the vote envelopes, step behind the curtain, fill the envelopes with my selected votes, go to the counter, show ID, leave my votes, and leave. It's so fast that I hardly ever seen any kind of line, maybe 2-3 people waiting at the most.

I cant imagine taking an hour or more to vote, and on a workday too. Election day here is always on a sundays.

The voters are motivated on both sides this year, I suspect. There were a couple hundred in line ahead of me when I got there, and several hundred waiting their turn when I left. The line took 50 minutes, actual voting took ten. There were a lot of state amendments and local stuff on the ballot, on top of the presidential and congressional stuff. This is the first time I've ever done anything besides traditional election day voting, I'm old fashioned, I guess. I had the day off and decided to give it a try. All the early voting at the location I visited was digital, also a first for me. I prefer good ol' paper ballots.

[Aglifter]

There are a few reasons -- for one, a polling location, in TX, must have both Democrat and GOP election officials, a judge, and some other people -- and it's hard to arrange those in urban areas -- IE, the heavily Democrat (read, slum) parts of Houston have to get GOP volunteers willing to go there w.o. being armed.

The other part is that, I believe, we vote for FAR more people than Europeans. The ballot I went through this morning was 9 "screens" long.

[morsetaper]

... and cannot wait to never hear another campaign commerical- from either party.

Heh. Me too. Unfortunately, in Northern Va., it's all politics, all the time. I don't even own a tee wee, and I'm Obamabarded by it all of my waking hours.

[clyde621]

Last week me and the wife did the early voting. One of the early locations was at the local mall. We had to wait 30 mins to get in and this was on a Tuesday. Large crowd but very civil.
I hate to think what the polls are going to be on election day.

[Jered]

Thanks to my friends at ACORN and the Obama campaign I've voted eight different times in nine different states under ten different names.

[308Mike]

Thanks to my friends at ACORN and the Obama campaign I've voted eight different times in nine different states under ten different names.

Yeah, but if you voted Republican, you'll be prosecuted, and if you voted dhimmicrap that's expected and NOTHING will happen to you.

[Draven]

CA voter lines result from having an n average of a dozen tax-and-spend propositions everyone has to vote on every election.