Voting times

[Mongrel]

For those in the US and old enough to vote only.
My wait time was 1 hour 45 minutes. We had 100 people in line to vote; about 50 of those people couldn't even fit inside the church where we vote. One of the officials told me the line had been even longer in the earliest part of the morning, extending all the way to the street.
Meanwhile, the other precinct that votes in that church had a wait time of up to 5 minutes. SO not fair--especially since it divides right along our street.
Absentee balloters: I envy you.

[Skynetmain]

0 hr 0 min 0 sec. Absentee all the way, baby!

[Cerise]

When I went to work at 6:45am, there was a really long line of people waiting outside the church to vote. But when I voted later at 4pm, there was only a group of five or six people. With four voting machines that arent hard to use, I didnt wait more than 5 minutes.

[Tymaporer]

I'm seventeen. ;_;

[theonlysaneone]

Absentee I did have to wait in line at the post office though.

[Siniri]

Mine was just over 3 hours, but I did early voting. My friend got to the polls at 6am (1 hour before they opened), and the line was already long enough that he had to wait another 30 minutes after they opened -- apparently some people had camped out. Supposedly, GA had 700,000 new voters register in the past few months, and the polling places in Atlanta were already known for having more than the recommended # of voters/location.

[Ammer]

I'm Canadian, so in our most recent Federal election, I waited 10 minutes.

[Twizzler0171]

I didn't have to wait very long in line at all. 5-10 minutes, maybe? I was playing my DS so it may have been a bit longer than that, but not by much. 'Course, I did it fairly late in the day on the actual voting day, and if I had gone in for early voting it probably would have been a lot longer.

[Ammer]

Absentee I did have to wait in line at the post office though.

Not to sound personal, but I find it very surprising you were absent for the election. I figured since you were so invested in it (as a lot of us were) you would be more inclined to vote.

Interesting.

[Evil Stu Man]

I'm Aussie. In our election to vote in Keven Rudd I had wait in line for like 30minutes. Bloody hell I wish I was absentee. lol I hope Obama wins.

[May]

I, like over 4 million other people in my state, voted early for the US election, and I waited just about 2 hours in line. A few days after I voted, the line was over 6 hours long

[Ange]

Not to sound personal, but I find it very surprising you were absent for the election. I figured since you were so invested in it (as a lot of us were) you would be more inclined to vote.

Interesting.

Erm, Ammer, but theonlysaneone did vote...via absentee ballot (I'm assuming). I did that during the last US Presidential election in 2004, because I was attending university. No way in heck I was going to drive 3.5 hours to vote at my designated voting place (my registered address was my hometown), so I requested an absentee ballot.

Since I officially don't live with my parents anymore, I could register here and only had to walk two blocks then wait 5 minutes to vote.

[theonlysaneone]

Not to sound personal, but I find it very surprising you were absent for the election. I figured since you were so invested in it (as a lot of us were) you would be more inclined to vote.

Interesting.

Erm, Ammer, but theonlysaneone did vote...via absentee ballot (I'm assuming). I did that during the last US Presidential election in 2004, because I was attending university. No way in heck I was going to drive 3.5 hours to vote at my designated voting place (my registered address was my hometown), so I requested an absentee ballot.

Since I officially don't live with my parents anymore, I could register here and only had to walk two blocks then wait 5 minutes to vote.

That was my situation. An absentee ballot is basically a ballot that you mail in instead of voting in your precinct. It counts the same as a regular ballot, but you can only use it if you're going to be out of town during the entire early voting period.

[Mongrel]

An absentee ballot is basically a ballot that you mail in instead of voting in your precinct. It counts the same as a regular ballot, but you can only use it if you're going to be out of town during the entire early voting period.

That depends on location. Some places allow you to request an absentee ballot for no reason. My state allows you to vote by absentee ballot only if you're very sick, out of the state, or in jail but not convicted. You can also go down to the county clerk's office in the three weeks before Election Day and vote.

[Ammer]

Not to sound personal, but I find it very surprising you were absent for the election. I figured since you were so invested in it (as a lot of us were) you would be more inclined to vote.

Interesting.

Erm, Ammer, but theonlysaneone did vote...via absentee ballot (I'm assuming). I did that during the last US Presidential election in 2004, because I was attending university. No way in heck I was going to drive 3.5 hours to vote at my designated voting place (my registered address was my hometown), so I requested an absentee ballot.

Since I officially don't live with my parents anymore, I could register here and only had to walk two blocks then wait 5 minutes to vote.

Oh!

Wow, that sucks that I didn't know what an absentee ballot was.

Thanks