Me: Ireland - Approximately 2 minutes until poll in hand is the longest.

I’ve been seeing long lines for the US elections even for early voting. Seems completely unnecessary.

  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Still waiting cast my vote for Obama the second time.

    Maybe if Missouri gets a new AG they’ll get around to processing those provisional ballots.

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    8 hours ago

    Maybe 30 to 45 minutes in Merritt Island, Florida, back in 2004.

    It was my first time voting, and I went with my parents after they were home from work, so it’s likely that that was the longest anyone there waited.

    I’ve lived all over central Florida since, and have never had to wait at all, but that’s mostly because I do Early Voting or even Vote By Mail now.

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    11 hours ago
    1. Mail in ballot for every single election.

    Ive heard some people locally take at most 30 mins.

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    13 hours ago

    I’ve never had to wait long in New Orleans or DC except for odd circumstances but those places essentially have predetermined elections.

    • During the pandemic in New Orleans, they made the Smoothie King Center the main early voting location. That took a couple of hours but in normal years, I vote at a fire department and it just takes a few minutes.

    • In 2008 in DC, I lived near the White House and my polling place was an historic AME church that was a spot on the Underground Railroad. Every global news channel with staff in DC — so all of them — was trying to interview people. So, I’m not sure that was the voting system’s fault so much as global media asking everyone for a sound bite. (I got interviewed by Japan’s NHK but I didn’t make the cut. If I want to get on Japanese TV, I guess I’ll have to go on a game show.)

    But I’ve never lived in a competitive state or district. DC doesn’t have real representation in Congress and Louisiana’s 2nd district is drawn for Voting Rights Act compliance reasons so it’s also not typically competitive. (Louisiana also elects state/local officials in non-presidential years so it’s rarely got much on the ballot besides President and maybe an amendment or two. This year, we voted on whether offshore wind farms would participate in the coastal wetlands restoration program like offshore oil rigs.)

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    9 hours ago

    Usually not very long but one time there were THREE cars in front of me at the drive through ballot drop box. That was a good 20 to 30 seconds of my life I’ll never get back. Bunch of slackers waiting til the last day!

    Yesterday I went to vote in person for the first time in a really long time, because I moved to a different county and didn’t re-register soon enough to get a mail-in ballot. It was super smooth, didn’t wait longer than a minute or two while they did their admin stuff and then I was voting.

    Colorado, USA.

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    14 hours ago

    Voting for any French election while in Montréal (Québec, Canada) is usually a 3-4 hours wait line

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    9 hours ago

    About an hour in 2020 I think. I’m in a semi-rural Republican-leaning district that won’t ever vote Democrat, but I still show up to vote anyways. Usually, I’m in and out pretty quickly every election, maybe 5-10 minutes at most. For some reason, guessing because of its importance, 2020 the line just took quite a bit longer. Every other election, presidential or otherwise, there’s never a wait.

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    12 hours ago

    Just got back from voting, no wait. It’s about a 10 minute walk from my house to the polling place. They had 3 lanes open for people to check in, only 1 was occupied. I was in and out in under 5 minutes. Longest I’ve ever had to wait was probably 45-60 minutes in 2016 but that was at a different polling place that was always poorly organized.

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    6 hours ago

    About 15 minutes, this morning in Wilmington, NC. In previous elections here, I’ve walked in and voted immediately, with no line

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      6 hours ago

      I’m gonna grasp at that being positive. My favourite band at a ripe old age, Sylvan Esso, are from NC.