Did you vote? How busy was the polling place?

[Ban my account ffs!]

Which number voter were you?  (if you know it)  What time did you vote?

I voted around 8:45.  Most of the voting booths (about 10 of them) were full and I was number 174 75 minutes after the polls opened.  There are roughly 3300 residents in my precinct.  In 2008, just under 1700 people voted.

[dead0man]

Yes....no idea....8:40ish.....nearly empty

[Franzl]

Yes, early Voting though. No wait at all then.

[Thomas D]

About 10 AM.  There was a line of about six people.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I was #9 at about 7:07.....it wasn't busy but it never is at that hour.  The line would  have been out the door in 30-45 minutes......

[angus]

Which number voter were you?  (if you know it)  What time did you vote?

I voted around 8:45.  Most of the voting booths (about 10 of them) were full and I was number 174 75 minutes after the polls opened.  There are roughly 3300 residents in my precinct.  In 2008, just under 1700 people voted.

Walked into the building at 8:41.  Walked out at 8:54.  I didn't pay attention to the numbers.

It was coldish.  26F when Louis and I hopped on our bicycles.  I bundled him up and we made the three-block ride to Southdale Elementary, as we do every morning.  I got him there, locked his bicycle to the rack (and kissed him and reminded him not to throw stones and be sure to eat all his lunch and say excuse me if he burps and listen to the teacher and say thank you and please) just before the 8:40 warning bell, and then rode two more blocks to the Jesus H. Christ Megachurch and Cultural Center where I vote.  (Okay, that's not really the name of the place.  I can't remember the name of the place, but it's a huge monstrosity of a church about two blocks from my son's school.)  I left the bicycle in the front and walked in and looked around at the people.  funny thing, here on this forum, at 43 I'm one of the really old guys.  In my voting place, I'm quite sure I was, by far, the youngest.  All the other voters are looking at me with that "Oh, it's so good to see young people voting" kind of gleam.  I had to wait behind three women and two men ahead of me, but the line moved fast.  Eventually I got to the blue-haired, pencil-thin, bespectacled octogenarian woman working the "sign here to confirm your address" station.  Then, I took another step to the next very old woman who had the "I promise I have not voted in any other precinct" documents to sign.  Then I waited to step forward to the next station where two much younger (mid-sixties?) women were asking questions and typing things in on Lenovo thinkpads.  (Computer literacy is limited to the young, I suppose.)  Finally, I got to the last station where a rather rotund elderly man (with no hair except a few white whiskers on his chin) gave me a ballot. 

The voting part was actually pretty quick.  I'd studied beforehand about all the major office.  I probably left about five of them blank, wishing I'd educated myself a bit about things like County Board of Supervisors and District Appellate Judges.  I did notice that Iowa Party and Socialist Workers Party were choices this year for the straight-ticket option, along with the standard Democrat, Republican, and Libertarian.  Not that I'd ever vote straight party ticket, but it's nice to see some other options. 

There were also three questions.  I voted NO on all of them then put my ballot into the little electronic device that sucks it in and, presumably, reads it.  Voila!

By then I needed to pee.  Luckily there was a men's room just down the corridor.  All told, I was in and out in under 15 minutes.  Pretty efficient.

[Alcon]

Yes, 48 or something, five minute line at 7:45 -- a little less than I expected, but Washington gets more vote-by-mail by the year.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Which number voter were you?  (if you know it)  What time did you vote?

I voted around 8:45.  Most of the voting booths (about 10 of them) were full and I was number 174 75 minutes after the polls opened.  There are roughly 3300 residents in my precinct.  In 2008, just under 1700 people voted.

Walked into the building at 8:41.  Walked out at 8:54.  I didn't pay attention to the numbers.

It was coldish.  26F when Louis and I hopped on our bicycles.  I bundled him up and we made the three-block ride to Southdale Elementary, as we do every morning.  I got him there, locked his bicycle to the rack (and kissed him and reminded him not to throw stones and be sure to eat all his lunch and say excuse me if he burps and listen to the teacher and say thank you and please) just before the 8:40 warning bell, and then rode two more blocks to the Jesus H. Christ Megachurch and Cultural Center where I vote.  (Okay, that's not really the name of the place.  I can't remember the name of the place, but it's a huge monstrosity of a church about two blocks from my son's school.)  I left the bicycle in the front and walked in and looked around at the people.  funny thing, here on this forum, at 43 I'm one of the really old guys.  In my voting place, I'm quite sure I was, by far, the youngest.  All the other voters are looking at me with that "Oh, it's so good to see young people voting" kind of gleam.  I had to wait behind three women and two men ahead of me, but the line moved fast.  Eventually I got to the blue-haired, pencil-thin, bespectacled octogenarian woman working the "sign here to confirm your address" station.  Then, I took another step to the next very old woman who had the "I promise I have not voted in any other precinct" documents to sign.  Then I waited to step forward to the next station where two much younger (mid-sixties?) women were asking questions and typing things in on Lenovo thinkpads.  (Computer literacy is limited to the young, I suppose.)  Finally, I got to the last station where a rather rotund elderly man (with no hair except a few white whiskers on his chin) gave me a ballot. 

The voting part was actually pretty quick.  I'd studied beforehand about all the major office.  I probably left about five of them blank, wishing I'd educated myself a bit about things like County Board of Supervisors and District Appellate Judges.  I did notice that Iowa Party and Socialist Workers Party were choices this year for the straight-ticket option, along with the standard Democrat, Republican, and Libertarian.  Not that I'd ever vote straight party ticket, but it's nice to see some other options. 

There were also three questions.  I voted NO on all of them then put my ballot into the little electronic device that sucks it in and, presumably, reads it.  Voila!

By then I needed to pee.  Luckily there was a men's room just down the corridor.  All told, I was in and out in under 15 minutes.  Pretty efficient.

BushOK it's not nice to imitate angus. 

[Vepres]

My school is one of the polling places, and that area didn't have many people earlier this morning (supposedly 2/3 of Coloradans vote by mail now).

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

was at the polling place at 6:55am, 5 minutes before it opened.  There was a line of about 10 people

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

It was pretty empty. I used the only voting machine while the others voted by hand.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Absentee.  My mother dropped my ballot off yesterday.

[ilikeverin]

Yes.  I voted at about 10:45.  I was the 34th voter in my precinct; there was no line whatsoever, and only a couple of people in the room when I was there.  I guess that's what I get for voting in a college precinct

[Vazdul (Formerly Chairman of the Communist Party of Ontario)]

I voted around 1:00 pm. Two lines, no waiting. The election official had difficulty finding my name in the book because the pages were stuck together. I was voter 254 in a precinct of about 1,600. Spend less than a minute in the booth, including the time it took me to verify that I had made the correct choices. All in all, I was in and out of the polling place in about 5 minutes.

[angus]

Yes.  I voted at about 10:45.  I was the 34th voter in my precinct; there was no line whatsoever, and only a couple of people in the room when I was there.  I guess that's what I get for voting in a college precinct

They're doing it on campus here at UNI, in the Center for Multicultural Awareness.  My department head says it's been pretty busy there.  I think in Iowa you can use either your "permanent" (mama and daddy's) address, or your local address to vote, but not both.

Mister Grassley is an alumnus of UNI and the rumor is that he'll swing by for a visit.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Yes.  I voted at about 10:45.  I was the 34th voter in my precinct; there was no line whatsoever, and only a couple of people in the room when I was there.  I guess that's what I get for voting in a college precinct

They're doing it on campus here at UNI, in the Center for Multicultural Awareness.  My department head says it's been pretty busy there.  I think in Iowa you can use either your "permanent" (mama and daddy's) address, or your local address to vote, but not both.

Mister Grassley is an alumnus of UNI and the rumor is that he'll swing by for a visit.

I always voted at the college too... but with same day registration, GOTV is obviously much different here.  People would literally drag students to the polls just to get them to vote... so my university always had high turnout.

[ilikeverin]

Yes.  I voted at about 10:45.  I was the 34th voter in my precinct; there was no line whatsoever, and only a couple of people in the room when I was there.  I guess that's what I get for voting in a college precinct

They're doing it on campus here at UNI, in the Center for Multicultural Awareness.  My department head says it's been pretty busy there.  I think in Iowa you can use either your "permanent" (mama and daddy's) address, or your local address to vote, but not both.

Mister Grassley is an alumnus of UNI and the rumor is that he'll swing by for a visit.

I always voted at the college too... but with same day registration, GOTV is obviously much different here.  People would literally drag students to the polls just to get them to vote... so my university always had high turnout.

Exactly.  Michigan's 30-day requirement is the bane of students, I'd assume, most of whom probably didn't realize there was an election until like a week ago

Unfortunately, I'll be the only one voting from my immediate family this year.  My parents are spending their first winter in Florida, and moved about 29 days before election day (when FL's window is 30 days), and my brother lost his driver's license and wallet when he moved to Virginia (where the window is two weeks).  My family really didn't realize how lucky we were to live in Minnesota, one of the few states in the Union that wants you to vote

[King]

Oh didn't see this thread.

Yeah, I voted at noon and there was just me voting at the time.  Surprising, although the people next to my name on the signup sheet all had "absentee" marked.

[angus]

one of the few states in the Union that wants you to vote

Think that's lucky?  In Iowa there is same-day voter registration.  Not only does the Iowa lege want you to vote, it doesn't even require you to be prepared and knowledgeable, or even to have had any previous notion that there was an election to be held when you woke up this morning.  "Hello?  Oh, an election?  um, okay.  You'll give me a carton of cigarettes if I vote for who?  You'll come by here and give me a ride?  Sure, okay, got it."   

How lucky is that?

[minionofmidas]

Wikipedia is your friend, Angus. Although this one's badly written and probably error riddled:

"ten states have some form of Election Day voter registration: Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Wyoming and Washington DC. Montana began Election Day voter registration in 2006, North Carolina in 2007, and Iowa in 2008. Connecticut also has Election Day registration, but only for presidential elections. (North Dakota, unique among the states, has no voter registration requirement at all.)

Newly popular early voting programs sometimes work in concert with Election Day registration. While not allowing registration on Election Day itself (the last day to vote), the states of Ohio and North Carolina offer a period where voters can register and then early vote."

I thought Iowa always had same-day registration? Also, according to the lower para. NC doesn't belong in the list in the upper para. The point though was merely that same day reg is common across the entire Upper Midwest / Mountain Northwest area. Apart from Michigan.

[angus]

(North Dakota, unique among the states, has no voter registration requirement at all.)

LOL.  Well, until you can produce a death certificate, I say it's a fair vote and has to be counted!

ND people are the luckiest of all.  


I don't remember the same-day thing being a big deal here.  Seems like I'd remember it if it happened in 2008 since I moved here in 2007 and have generally been paying attention to elections.  But you did get this from wikipedia, after all.

I do remember when I was living in California and it came up on the ballot as a binding proposition.  That was about 2002.  I and a majority of California voters sensibly voted against it. 

[they don't love you like i love you]

8:50AM. I was the 205th person to vote.

(North Dakota, unique among the states, has no voter registration requirement at all.)

LOL.  Well, until you can produce a death certificate, I say it's a fair vote and has to be counted!

ND people are the luckiest of all. 

You still need to provide evidence you live in the precinct (basically show them your driver's license with your address). I think you can also do it with a bill and photo ID (we have the same thing but for same day registration. ND just lets you vote then.)

[minionofmidas]

Certainly they must be keeping some kind of list of who has voted, even if it's destroyed at the end of the day? Oughtn't that be kind of difficult without a register of voters known to reside in the precinct?

[Dave from Michigan]

hello!

I voted around 1:45pm. There was no line, but a few people were voting. I was voter 320. In 2008 724 people voted in my precinct. voted all republican except for one, Wayne county executive.

[Eraserhead]

Voted around 2:00 PM. Pretty busy but you never have a long wait at my place. I saw some hillbillies but I also saw a black woman (and my area is pretty damn white)!

Here's how I voted if anyone cares:

Governor: Andrew Cuomo (D)

Senate: Randy Credico (L)

Senate (Special): Gillibrand (D)

Attorney General: Eric Schneiderman (D)

Comptroller: Julia Willebrand (G)

Congress: Scott Murphy (D)

State Senate: Didi Barrett (D)

State Assembly: Alyssa Kogon (D)

Supreme Court (District 9): Four Democrats

County judges: Two Democrats