Upper East Side of Manhattan polling site had 3 voters, no waiting, at 7 am.
At 6:05 am there were less than 10 people voting. It was raining in southern indiana so that may have detered some people. I vote in 5 minutes. It took almost an hour in 2004.
Well I early voted and I didn't have to wait in any long line, lol! When I voted last week there were at least 2 other people voting, but no line and a bunch of senior citizens sitting around yapping away while working.
This morning I drove by the voting place in my precinct near my sons school and there were a lot of cars parked and people walking in and out to vote. I live in a mostly Republican area so that is good.
Less than 2 dozen people at 7:30 at my polling place in Frederick, MD. In and out in minutes.
Pennsylvania, 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, voted 4th at 7 a.m. opening. There were at least 30 people in line outside when I finished. No apparent problems, but the touch sceen voting was curious-- a cartridge which looked like an miniaturized 8 track tape which came out of the poll worker's pocket and went into the machine. There were five machines in our polling place, so mine (#4) took a little longer to boot up as I was the first one to use it.
At 6:05 AM EST there were 12 people present at my polling place in western Old Town Alexandria, VA. Polls opened at 6 AM.
I was voter number 7, and cast my ballot for George Allen!
From NRO:
Hi Kathryn,
Just wanted to let you know that I reside in Hilltown Township, a small community in Bucks County, PA. I am one of those people who vote in every election usually before I go to work. Normally I am one of the first ten voters; today I was #89. I waited in line for 40 minutes. When I left there was still a line out the door and around the corner. Hopefully this will bode well for Rick Santorum.
Two years ago, they made me remove my, "Coors," hat. I was wearing it because it's part of my uniform. Pete Coors was running for Senate at the time.
Only thing that happened this year was we got to use the new touch screen machines. A piece of paper recorded my vote. I asked the lady why I couldn't get a copy and she said, "Can't. you can sell your vote if that happened."
Didn't make sense to me at the time, but some FReepers told me how this was done.
When I asked a longtime poll worker "How's the turnout?" she said "We can barely keep up" (she's an elderly lady and a solid Republican - and she's been working the polls for decades). This is good, because we're in a very Republican RED area.
Here's an interesting little thing I overheard:
As I was signing in, a poll worker came over from the computer voting area and said to the poll worker with the book "We have another runaway voter - put a slash by her name". I'm guessing that this means the voter started her ballot on the computer and walked out of the polling place, but didn't press the "vote" button that actually casts the ballot. And, obviously, from the comment, she was at least the second voter to do so. Interesting phenomenon. Wonder how common this is?
Rural South Carolina...
7:00 AM
I got there at 6:59 and the parking lot was full. I was the 33rd voter. My neighbor got the coveted #1 spot.
Before I left there were two lines with at least 20 people in each to sign in.
A line with another 20 people waiting to vote on one of the 8 machines.
Steady stream of folks were coming in the whole time.
Oh yeah...it was raining.
Our local moonbat's father told me that his daughter refuses to vote in the "BushReich farce election". He says she's sitting home getting drunk already. LOL
The funniest thing I saw was an idiot liberal zombie at the front of the line asking for one of those Democrat instruction cards that tells you how you're supposed to vote on every ticket and referendum.
I voted early in my small West Texas city and it was very, very busy, with a line out the door. Two days later I went with hubby to early vote and it was just as busy. This is a heavy Republican area. There has been good turn out here so far.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1733843/posts?q=1&&page=1#1
For cross-reference, only. =)
Took me just a few minutes to get in and out. Voted straight ticket. No line but many people moving thru. Raining in northeast Indiana.
I always get a little emotional when I go to vote. I just know it really matters!!
God Bless America!!
I'm voting at 10:00 this morning as I'm meeting my 86 year old mom at the polls. We use paper ballots, fill in a line of an arrow pointing at the candidates name, and slide them into an optical scanner. Talking to our local Probate Judge recently, she mentioned that we've only had two recounts during her four term tenure. Both recounts resulted in identical numbers as the original count. I thought that was pretty cool.
Northern NJ, solidly read, no line but solid trickle...3 booths full, and as each person finished there spot was taken almost immediately...this was at 8 after the initial rush...the hubby will go at 5:30 so we'll get a better feel then.
Light Turnout in Shakopee, MN at my precinct. I was the 28th ballot at 7:30 am.
MN is all Electronic Scan, so smooth as silk.
Guy in front of me had to register same day, but he lived with his parents and parents were on the roll and vouched for him. Looked like good Conservatives.
Longest line I have seen since I moved to Virginia at 7:20AM. All the poll workers were big radical Democrats. That didn't look promising.