25-35 mins. I has been MUCH longer in the past where people had to get into the line according to the first letter in their last name. Not this time, 6 people serviced the entire line and it moved pretty good. It was just LONG.
When I finished up, around 11am, I glanced back at the line and it was a tad longer then when I jumped in.
-- 2006 Time magazine Person of the Year --
"...Oh, the band is out on the field!! He's gonna go into the end zone! He's gone into the end zone!! -- Joe Starkey -- November 20, 1982 -- The Play --
My wife got to the polling place at 6:50 this morning, and left at 7:50. She was #921. There had to be a TON of absentee ballots to reach that number that early.
I got there at 4:43 this evening, and left at 6:00. I was number 2290.
Old people (70+ years of age, just so we're clear) running polling places is no good. They're just as happy talking to each other as they are getting people in and out of there.
Sandal wearing hippie in line: "Two hours! Isn't it great? Isn't it wonderful? Isn't it fantastic?"
FUCK NO IT AIN'T. This is the twenty-first century, people - there's GOT to be a better way to get people in, voting, and out.
I lol'd when I read that because I had a similar experience. I was trying to vote on my lunch break and it was taking FOREVER. Instead of hippies, though, my annoying people in front of me were blue-hairs. I would have rather had hippies.
Oh, and I don't like touch screen voting. I prefer the 'ker-chunk' of the lever. It made it feel more important.
At 2:20PM I was in and out in under three minutes. We have a small district.
I had just bent down to tighten my nuts, and there was a double yellow line, see? And next thing I knew, there was policeman behind me. He put a sticker on my helmet and tried to clamp me.
I got out of my truck at 6:16pm and walked in the polling place Signed the voting register Got my ballot Talked to a friend I hadn't seen in a while Voted Back in my truck at 6:21pm
There was no line at all. My polling place is about 20 minutes from my job and house (I just moved).
"Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go backstage. I'm proud of myself, I just beat Brad Armstrong!" - Arn Anderson on WCW Saturday Night in 1992, in the classiest display I've ever seen of someone putting over an underrated mid-carder that everyone in the locker room knew deserved better than the push he got.
About an hour at about 830a in Brooklyn. I was in and out during the midterms in 06.
I'm excited that there are that many people voting, but there's got to be a better way to handle the handling part. People were doing what they had to to make sure they voted, but eight-hour lines in predominantly poorer districts is a poll tax in sheep's clothing.
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For us: 1: Invite over folks with no one around or nowhere to go for dinner and company. 2: Appple raisin stuffing, fresh cranberries, and bourbon sweet potatoes with our turkey.