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Went just before 8:30 on my way to work. Polling place is a local elementary school about 1/2 mile from my house. There were about six or so precincts at that school. My precinct appeared to have the longest line, which was about 10 minutes. Line seemed a little longer when I got off, but probably no more than 15 minutes or so. I was voter 135 in my precinct, polls here are open from 6am to 9pm.
I spoke to my parents who live on the SC side of the Charlotte suburbs. They went around 11 said they waited about an hour which was by far the most they remember waiting since they retired down there in 09 or anytime they were in NY.
I early voted during one of the times I was ferrying people to vote last week. I was surprised to see that there were about 6-8 other people there each time I was there. No problems. When I drove by today, there were local candidates waving signs out where they are allowed to be. No trump poll watchers in evidence. Wonder if they even showed up anywhere.
Just got back from the polls at 3:30 - I was #416 - voted Trump. There was actually an article in our paper this week saying how scared the Democrats are that the county was going to go Red.
My friend in Jersey went this morning but there was an hour wait at her district so she's going back after work.
I have the day off. Polls opened at 6am but I didn't want to wait in line so I left my house around 10 am. It's a beautiful day so I walked to the polls. When I got there a Republican lady handed me the Republican ballot and a Democrat lady handed me the Democrat ballot (these are samples to show how to vote along party lines). Out of curiosity I wanted to know how both felt about issues other than candidates. They agreed on all issues except two.
I checked in by showing my license and saying my name. They gave me a ticket to pick up a paper ballot. I picked up my ballot and voted for the person for president with whom I agreed with on the most issues (I was undecided for a very long time and writing out issues and listing candidates was the only way for me to make a logical choice. I knew exactly how I was going to vote on all the other issues on the ballot, so that was easier. There was no one running against the incumbent from Congress and I voted to reelect. After I filled in my ballot I fed my ballot into the scanner, got my sticker, and left.
Before my walk back home I returned the sample ballots to both the Democrat lady and the Republican lady (so they wouldn't run out), said goodbye to each and walked home.
I walked over to my polling spot about 1.5 blocks away. My polling station is in an apartment lobby. There were about 5-7 people ahead of me in line at a 8:15 or so. The line went really quick because half were dropping off mail in ballots. It was packed in the lobby, there are only about 7 booths. Most people were too lazy to wait for the booth and used the wall or stood up to fill out their ballots. There were about 5 people ahead of me to feed their ballots into the electronic machine. I put mine in and got my sticker, with my choice of language. It took about 10 minutes all in all.
Happily no one was anywhere near the poll handing out fliers or propaganda, you got to vote in peace.
I went around 9:30 to our community center/municipal hall. There were two people in the two booths voting. I went up to the table where the two election board people sat, and noted that my cat-sitter had responsibility for last names ending in M - Z, the category in which my last name falls. I signed the book and signed the slip with the voter # on it. I was #77 in my half of the alphabet. We have about 600 registered voters in town, and usually not even 100 show up to vote, so I asked her how many people had voted totally so far. She said about 180 total.
While I was there, two people came in behind me. I handed my slip to the woman at the booth that someone had just vacated, and I went inside the curtains. I clicked the X for "write-in" for President and typed in the name of my choice. I voted to get rid of our mayor and replace him with a guy who promises to get back town-wide garbage collection instead of leaving it to the complexes to contract for it. I voted for the Sheriff and Surrogate I had chosen because of what I'd read about them, one Democrat, one Republican. I split my vote for Freeholders (it's a NJ thing) between two women, one Republican, and one Democrat. I voted Yes to one public question and no to another. I hit the red CAST VOTE button, and then I stepped out of the booth, went back over to my cat-sitter, and paid her for taking care of my pets while I was away last weekend.
Small-town voting.
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