The official 'Tell Us About Your 2008 Voting Experience' thread — Page 2

Polls opened at 7:00am in Maryland. When I got to my polling place at 7:15am the lot was filled and closed off. Luckily it hadn't started to rain yet so the rest of us parked down the road at a local shopping center and walked back. The line snaked around the Moose Lodge three times. The wait in line was exactly 2 hours. Once inside the building it only took 5 minutes. When I left the line was even longer. No one seemed discouraged by the wait and I hope the impending rain doesn't change that.

Polls opened in Chicago ay 6:00 AM. I got there about 6:18, and there was already a line outside.....took me about 50 minutes to finally vote. When I left for work a little after 8:00, the line was gone. Lotsa "vote before work" citizens in my neighborhood.

It took me only about 30 minutes. Obama has one more vote in NY (like he needed it!).

I have to say, the ballot confused me at first, even though I had already reviewed the sample ballot. Both Obama and McCain were listed twice, not only in their parties but in the Working Families and Conservative parties respectively.

And for one of the justice positions had two people listed both as Democrats and Republicans.

So I voted for Obama as a Democrat. Not as a Working Family. Ha.

Updated On: 11/4/08 at 10:53 AM

My place didn't even have "I voted" stickers.

Funny...my place had food and beverages, but no stickers!

I voted by mail last week. Filled out an envelope, dropped it in a mailbox.

The end.

No lines, no horror stories, no drama.

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I voted this morning.
The line was around the block - an hour wait.

I want to give a shout out to the volunteers who were doing their best with the crowds - they had someone waiting at the entrance to steer us to the correct district table and the woman manning the polling booth was very clear in giving directions. It's going to be a long day for them, and they're going to have to deal with alot of questions and confused people, so I take my hat off to them and the job they do to make this process run smoothly.

I voted for the candidates, and also voted on the proposition. Thanks to the BWW article, with the link, I was able to read up on it last night so I could make an informed decision. Another round of thanks to Rob for the great links - and to the League of Women Voters who work tirelessly to make sure everyone who has the right to vote is able to do so, and is informed.

I'm proud to be an American.

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I went in at about 8:20 this morning (voting takes place in the elementary school in my town - I had to be there even though the kids had no school for an in-service day. I'm a paraprofessional.) Anyway, I waited all but 2 seconds and got in and voted quickly and it was very easy. The process has been going steadily all day (I've been sneaking out of workshops to watch people come to vote) and there isn't much of a line at all. I'm wondering if it'll be worse once people get out of work and such.

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I early voted two weeks ago. I'm glad I did when I drove past my polling location, there was no parking and they were parking on the street blocking traffic. I didn't see any lines outside. I'm sure when I go by later there will be lines outside and hopefully a cop directing traffic.

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I got to vote for a brown man for President of the United States of America.


It feels sooooooooooooooooooo good. No sticker though

My polling place opened at 6am, but I did not go until 12:45pm. It was pretty empty, but I sort of expected that. Besides, this town hall center looks like a barn if that says something about where I live. Nothing interesting happened except I said hi to my dad because he is working there today.

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It looked like mostly Republican voters in my line too. I hope it isn't reflective of the whole state.

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Voted around 7:30 at PS 236 in Brooklyn. The man in front of me must've been a new citizen because he didn't know how to use the old fashioned lever voting machine and he wanted to vote for his mother who was in the hospital.

I was in and out pretty quickly. I'd spent the past two days calling Pennsylvania and Virginia from the Brooklyn Academy Of Music.

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