Election Day Line-Ups, How long do you wait? Voting System?

[trebor204]

For those who voted, how long did you have to wait in line?
How long did it take you to vote?
What type voting system was used?

You hear stories of people waiting in line for hours to vote. But these tend to be the extreme cases. There was a case in Miami where people voted until after midnight.

Here, In Canada it takes me under 15 minutes from the time I leave my apartment, vote, and come back (It helps that your polling station is in your building)

In Federal and Provincal Elections, we elect out local MP/MLA using a paper paper ballot (just mark an X). It normally takes about 1 hour to count all the ballots.

During local elections (normally 3 contests)  we use optical scan ballots

[wildfood]

Five minutes total, with an electronic voting machine.

[Fargobison]

I've never had to wait, it usually takes about five minutes, with use scan ballots.

[OAM]

Five minutes in the building, paper with scanner.  I'm in a rural area though, where it took me 15 minutes to drive to the polling place, narrowly missing a train blocking the tracks.  Turnout was good though, and some people behind me did have to wait about two minutes for someone to vacate one of the voting stands.

[MaxQue]

I'm in Quebec. I usually wait around 15 minutes (the precinct is full of people working until 5PM and they all go voting when leaving work). Paper ballot.

[Sbane]

I vote by mail, so I can avoid the hassle.

[Hatman 🍁]

Federal and provincial are paper of course. Takes only a few minutes to vote; rarely a line. But, unless the poll workers are incompetent, it shouldn't take an hour to count the ballots. Maybe half an hour.

Municipal is optical scan as  well. I don't trust it. There's less polling divisions municipally (due to lower turnout), which means we have to go further to vote.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I had to wait 90 minutes. I did not mind this though as I got to stand in line next to the cutest girl there (when I go to the roped lines near the end I could see basically everyone, and I can verify that this was the case.)

I voted on a scantron ballot.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Waited about an hour. Voted using an electronic machine.

[SPC]

No line, about five minutes, punchcard.

[Maxwell]

Easiest 2 minutes of my life.

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No line when I dropped off my ballot. I guess it helps to have Democrats running things.