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Post by cadoodlebug on Nov 8, 2016 18:38:21 GMT
It took me 11 minutes to stand in line, vote and exit the building.  ![]()
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Post by cmpeter on Nov 8, 2016 18:40:22 GMT
Wow, those are some crazy long wait times. We have mail in voting here. Last night I heard that 48% of the ballots had already been returned/processed.
You can drop them off today or mail them in. As long as they are postmarked today they will be counted.
Wonder what the statistics will show for % of folks in a state that voted for mail in vs in person voting?
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Post by Zee on Nov 8, 2016 18:49:26 GMT
Small town in PA, I arrived at 0920 and only had to wait about ten minutes. Some surrounding towns were a lot different, a lady at my Dr's office said she waited an hour and a half!
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melissa
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Post by melissa on Nov 8, 2016 18:53:35 GMT
At 9 am, I couldn't park at the firehouse. Cars were lined up on the road, but there is not much of a shoulder. I went back around 11 am and was taken pretty quickly. I have not voted in a while and was purged from the local records so I had to do a provisional ballot. No waiting for that. Otherwise, there were 3 machines for the 3 districts served by that site, each had about 6-10 people waiting.
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Post by pjynx on Nov 8, 2016 19:13:41 GMT
No early voting here. I was in line by 7:30 a.m. and out by 7:45. I estimate that there were about 30 people in line in front of me who had filled out their info slip and were waiting to get their ballot. Once getting a ballot, there was never a wait for an empty booth. I was voter #187.
Pam
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Post by micpea on Nov 8, 2016 19:15:39 GMT
no early voting here. arrived at 6am left at 7:30. Hubby just went & said it took him 25 mins.
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Post by loco coco on Nov 8, 2016 19:21:03 GMT
what happens if polls close at 7 but there is still a long line?
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Post by pierkiss on Nov 8, 2016 19:22:55 GMT
No early voting here. And no line here. There was a small line that formed after I got into my booth, but it was only like 5 people deep. I live in a tiny town. We went at 12:30, and so far there had only been 596 people that voted.
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Post by secondlife on Nov 8, 2016 19:23:08 GMT
what happens if polls close at 7 but there is still a long line? It is my understanding that if you are in line at closing time they have to let you vote.
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Post by pierkiss on Nov 8, 2016 19:23:59 GMT
what happens if polls close at 7 but there is still a long line? You stay in that line. If you are in line to vote at closing they must remain open to allow everyone in that line the chance to vote. Never ever get out of the line.
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Post by tiffanyr on Nov 8, 2016 19:26:22 GMT
in-person absentee voting. Isn't that sort of an oxymoron? 
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Post by Windy on Nov 8, 2016 20:40:14 GMT
Went at 2:30. Absolutely no one in line. In and out in 5 minutes and I was number 283. Oh, I'm in Western NY.
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Post by melanell on Nov 8, 2016 20:46:31 GMT
I drove by my polling place at 2:30 pm and there was no line outside. So any line was small enough to be contained indoors, so it couldn't have been very long as it's not a big building. I drove by a different polling place around 9:30 this morning and saw only a handful of cars in the lot. I will be going in about an hour, so I hope things are still quiet then. 
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2016 20:49:40 GMT
what happens if polls close at 7 but there is still a long line? People can't get in line after the polls close, but anyone already in line gets to vote.
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msliz
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Post by msliz on Nov 8, 2016 20:56:07 GMT
Small town here. I went around 3pm, no lines, no waiting.
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Nov 8, 2016 20:58:04 GMT
Thanks for all the responses! It is so interesting to see how different it is from place to place.
I am shocked at how much of a difference there can be in the precinct size. I know my parents always voted in my neighbor's garage LOL because our little country precinct only had a few registered voters.
But when I lived in VA, we were in the middle of a housing boom, and our precinct had not been changed even though the population increased about five-fold from one election to the next. That was what caused the ridiculous lines for us in 2004. Then in 2008, there was such a high voter turn-out that even though they had made some modifications to the precinct area (not enough in my opinion), the voting location still couldn't handle the volume. From what I've heard from FB friends, things haven't changed all that much eight years later.
Some of my PA friends have breezed through the polling place, while others waited for more than an hour.
No one is waiting in line for long around here as far as I can tell, but probably half of those who intended to vote have already done so.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Nov 8, 2016 21:32:04 GMT
It didn't even take me 15 minutes to vote today. At 1:00 I was #437.
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Post by melanell on Nov 8, 2016 22:31:34 GMT
I went at 4:45 and was in and out in under 10 minutes. 
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janeliz
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Post by janeliz on Nov 9, 2016 0:53:39 GMT
in-person absentee voting. Isn't that sort of an oxymoron?  A little bit, yes. Lol
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Post by Tamhugh on Nov 9, 2016 1:46:15 GMT
I went at 2 pm and had only a few minutes wait, but there had been 3 times as many voters as usual by that time. DH went at dinner time and they told him that 1200 of the 1600 registered voters in our precinct had already voted. DS#1 waited in line for over 3 hours in Philadelphia to cast his vote.
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