ItsJustMe

45 minutes for me, voter #75. That's about average for a major election. On the minor one earlier in the year I was voter #1 showing up at the same time, I had a 0 minute wait obviously.

steve0257

Had the day off so I went down about 10:00 and was #538. If everybody had insisted on using a voting booth there would have been a line, but they had also set up a bunch of tables that you could sit down at to mark your ballots if you didn't want to wait for a booth. The six booths were in use and about another 8 to 10 people using the tables.

For what it's worth, this morning the local radio station said Rochester had a 93% turnout. And we managed to elect a corpse as city council president.

silmarillion

I rode in too. I expected to be there for awhile, but I was in and out before I really even cooled down. It seemed much colder on the way home though. The rain had stopped, but it was a little breezy and damp.

Had a nice hot cup of coffee and played my guitar most of the day...

Warbuff

Rode from work and got to the site around 540 pm. Locked the bike outside and waited 2 hours. It wasn't too bad as I was mostly reading stuff on the forums on my phone. Got annoying ppl shouting their votes to ppl in the line. Cops had to kick a few out. Good times.

mconlonx

I worked the polls as a ballot clerk, 5:30am to 9:30pm. Rode my bike down and got the best parking place in town, about twenty feet from the door. Others complained about not enough parking and I really tried to empathize, but failed miserably.

There were lines at opening about a dozen deep, but those cleared out quick. Then it was steady busy through the AM, but no wait more than 5 min or so. Dead through the early afternoon--walk in, check in, vote, and out--no lines. When people started getting out of work, things picked up and there were 10-15 minute lines, double that if you needed to register same day. Busy through 7pm, then tailing off.

Stayed to clean up and break down the polling setup... but really just waiting to hear the results. Maine is a high-percentage voter turnout state--if you look at national figures, seems that the northern states have consistently higher turnout than southern states, despite colder weather. Strange.

Higher turnout in our town compared to 2008, which surprised me--I expected weaker than last time showing, assuming (R)s weren't thrilled with Romney, and (D)s disappointed in Obama. I was wrong; attribute the high turnout partly to the gay marriage initiative on the ballot; but won't really know for week or so until figures are tallied and I can compare to national voter turnout.

Fall in ME, so rode to town in the dark, low-30s, rode home in the dark, low-30s.

Best quote of the day was from another election clerk. We were talking after polling closed, turns out he's a retired NYC bus driver, and when I told him what I did for work, he said, no joke, "Bicycle mechanic?!? That's actually a job?"

tarwheel 

We have early voting for about 2 weeks leading up to election day. So I walked to the elections office during my lunch break one day last week, and it took about 5 minutes to vote. No line at all, but I talked to others who waited for hours to vote on election day. My usual poll is in the school right behind my house, so I usually walk there first thing in the morning, but I correctly assumed that there would be heavy crowds this year. We had a very high turnout in NC, about 67-68% of registered votes, which was close to a record.

PatrickGSR94

I heard my county had 70% to 80% turnout!

no motor?

Good for you. My girlfriend has done this for several elections, and it's not as easy as it looks - it's a long day for them and I always say thank you when I vote.

Astrozombie

Now i feel guilty about the times i didn't vote, it's usually a walk-in and pop out in 5 minutes type of deal. I wonder how many people say "screw that" if they have to wait over an hour?

fietsbob

Tell your legislature " I want Vote By Mail, Just like Oregon" because it works.

here we double envelope the ballot, Voter verification, signature scanned on the outer one,

then once the inner security envelope is removed it's a secret ballot.

enigmaT120

Bob, I don't know how well our system would work with some of the new voter suppression laws. Or whatever they call them.