TV: some folks waited 9hrs in line to vote in Ohio???

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I cannot believe anyone actually waited in line for 9hrs to vote, althought I heard it announced last night on TV.

Anone got any info or thoughts about this?
 
There was a two hour line out here thanks to Kali being bankrupt. They closed a lot of polling places and "combined" the rest. I went at 6PM and there was over 100 people. Came back at 7:45 and there was still over 50. never did get to vote.
 
Miami Co , Ohio

I waited 45 Min . Smooth . No poll watchers . No one hassled . That said , I would have waited as long as it would have taken .
 
Took me almost 2.5 hours.

The poll staff was completely incompetent. They had 4 years in which to prepare for huge turnouts, and they did nothing at my precinct.

People were generally polite, although I did see one Kerry supporter start to chant. He was ejected by polling officials, who told him to either leave or be arrested.
 
I live in a small town east of Phoenix, Got to the polling place at 6:05am aand had to wait forty minutes. It was well worth it to keep a traitor out of The White House...............Today is a good day
 
Less than twenty minutes all told. Line, forms, validation, voting, out the door.

One of the advantages of living in a small town.
 
I live in the rural part of a mostly suburban precinct. My neighbor was 45 minutes from arrival to departure. I took about 30 minutes.
 
My county has gone to all-absentee ballots.

I hate it. I really hate it. I wouldn't have had to stand in line, because I live in a small town. But I happily stood in line for over an hour, with two children in my stroller and one in my tummy, to vote when we lived in Phoenix back in 1996. I'd do it again in a heartbeat, happily, if we could get rid of required absentee voting and bring back the polling places.

Back in the 1940's, my grandpa used to do all the research for his vote and grandma's vote. He'd spend weeks figuring out how they were going to vote, and then on election day he would give grandma a piece of paper with the way they were going to vote marked upon it.

Grandma would go into the voting booth, pull the curtain behind her, and vote the exact opposite. Then she'd come out of the booth, smile, and go home with him. :D Go grandma!

She did it that way because he was beating her. Easier to smile and appear to do it his way than it was to get beaten for voting her own vote.

I've got to wonder how many people in my county are being coerced by their family members to vote the way the family members demand, now that they don't have the privacy of the voting booth.

pax

America is a land where a citizen will cross the ocean to fight for democracy -- and won't cross the street to vote in a national election. -- Bill Vaughan
 
Our township in the southern most county (of Ohio) is fairly spread out but only 40,000 odd some people in the county itself, there were four precints...but only three votomatic machines at mine. I waited maybe 15-20 minutes but that was also at 8am.

One guy who was at the voting machine when I walked in the door was still there when I left. The total ballot only had 103 places to mark and we had several incumbants running unopposed. I'm not sure what the heck he was doing in there...eating breakfast perhaps?

It was lack of machines rather than lack of staffing if you ask me. In West Virginia, some polls didn't open until almost two hours afterwards because the workers didn't show up.

I would really like to see the entire nation go to an electronic voting solution, completely standardized so that everyone uses the same machines. Do voter verification by a thumbprint. It'd take an insanely huge datapipe to a central server cluster in each state but then one could vote in any precinct and get their local ballots anywhere in the state. Maybe 25 years down the road this could happen but I do not for see anything happening soon unfortunately! :barf:

But then again, we still got this BS about abscentee and provisional ballots. :barf:
 
Just wanted to give a big THANK YOU to the Bush voters in Ohio....I knew you could do it.....If you ever need us to reciprocate the favor in Texas..we'll be here cocked and loaded !!
 
One person in front of me at 6:30pm.... Then again I wasnt in Ohio...
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One person in front of me @ 5:35PM....and I AM in Ohio, and also in one of the counties that suffered from long lines (summit).
Difference is, like TheBluesMan (same county as myself), we live in the mostly Republican precincts.

In and out in 10/15 min.

I'm convinced the Democrats did their very best to "stuff" the polling places when and where they could. That's the same tactic they pulled in Florida in 2000. Pack the polls with voters late in the day and hope some get turned away so they can blow it al out of proportion.

I mean come on,,, they (Democrats) have like all day to vote,,,,it's not like they have a job or anything to go to :D
 
Whenemy polling place opened (Ohio), took me about 25 minutes. I live in Lake county, first county East of Cleveland (Cuyahoga County).

I would have stayed as long as it took.
 
My wife and I filled out our absentee ballots the night before and about 1230 on election day we went in to the nearby school and delivered our sealed ballots and placed them in a steel box. Elapsed ime from leaving the cat to returning, maybe three minutes.
 
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