[poobear]

I got to my precinct at 6:00 A.M. that day, waited in line nearly 2 hours + then made it to work only an hour late at 9:00 A.M. Everything was orderly, and everyone had I.D. There was some "observer" running around like crazy trying to find irregularities.

You should have seen all those Republicans who had never worked a day in there lives with company trucks and vehicles going to work after they voted before sunrise that morning.

[talleyman]

You should have seen all those Republicans who had never worked a day in there lives with company trucks and vehicles going to work after they voted before sunrise that morning.

LOL!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

There's only one precinct in my town, and I had a similar experience, even though it went like 35-65 Kerry. (They don't ask for ID, just have to say who you are and they cross off your name.)

One of Hilliary's hobby horses is equalizing waiting times. Someone showed that in Ohio the number of poll workers and age and condition of the equipment was about the same in urban areas as in suburban areas, yet the waits were longer in urban areas.

My polling day experience may shed some light. Where I voted there were two lines, one for last names, say A-L, the other for M-Z, obviously meant divide the population into approximately two equal groups. At the end of each line was a woman who would look your name up on the 11" by 17" fanfold print out. I had the good luck to be on the A-L line which was moving much more slowly than M-Z. The woman staffing our line was older, God bless her, and had a lot more trouble fanning through the list, finding a name, bringing a ruler under it and drawing a line than the woman staffing the first line.

I can't help thinking something like this is going on in the urban areas. Whatever the rigmarole to vote, it may be that the people staffing urban polling places are measurably less productive than their peers in suburban precincts.

[OldFriend]

My daughter waited nearly three hours to vote.....of course, she had all day because she's a millionaire and doesn't have to work.NOT