Share Your Voting Experience Here - Long Lines, Young People, etc...

[Lady's Human]

The ban on politically oriented clothing is a matter of law.

In New York no electioneering is allowed within 100 feet of a polling place, and that includes political slogans/candidate messages on clothing. I believe in Massachusetts it's either 100 or 200 feet from a polling place.

[ramanth]

I voted! I went at 10:30 and only had about 5 people ahead of me. All age ranges... I even had a teen in front of me voting for the first time.

I was home by 11.

[shais_mom]

I went about 1130am and took Keegan with me to wait in the car with the window open smelling the fresh air.
I'd never been in that church before but had no problem finding the fellowship room with the signs and following the 2 older ladies ahead of me.
Ran into a friend (co-worker's sister) she's 19 and her boyfriend who was voting is 31 so there was that age span. I saw several younger people. Several older people too. The older guy beside me was having problems with the computer and was getting rather frazzled.
I went to leave and couldn't remember which door I was to go out b/c the sign said "fire exit" and under it "MEN" I didn't want to go to the men's room so I just stood there a second and someone said "yup that's the exit! and women can go thru it too!" lmao - when I opened the door the men's room was across the hall!

[AdoreMyDogs]

I early voted a couple weeks ago. There was about 10 in line ahead of me, and 10 or so behind me. It was quick, easy, and Quinn couldn't get "Elmo" out of her head, so I said to the clerk that my daughter is also going to vote, and she's voting for Elmo. We all had a good laugh. Then Quinn showed the clerk her belly button and said "a butt" (she shortens button with "butt" sometimes) which was funny.

There was a 96 year old man in front of us that was voting. The surprising thing is that I wouldn't have guessed him to be over 80. He looked great for 96, walking well and upright, good posture, good skin, healthy body. It was really neat seing someone so old doing so very well.

[caseysmom]

The ban on politically oriented clothing is a matter of law.

In New York no electioneering is allowed within 100 feet of a polling place, and that includes political slogans/candidate messages on clothing. I believe in Massachusetts it's either 100 or 200 feet from a polling place.

This is true and our local news folks have been reminding everyone, some polling places even have hospital gowns on hand just in case.

[RICHARD]

I saw a news report where some local precincts were given pieces of string measuring 100 feet so they could just whip it out and measure.. THat way there would be no question as to the distance.

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[smokey the elder]

There are signs near polling places that say "This is 100 feet to a polling place". I remember them being more common in Massachusetts when I was growing up.

[Daisy and Delilah]

I went at 10:00 a.m. My precinct is normally 75% elderly people. Today, it was all ages. I saw many more younger people than in the past. It always amazes me and makes me happy to see some of the people that come out that normally don't get out much. i.e. people on oxygen, in wheelchairs, very old, and other reasons. They make it out to vote, no matter what.

I was there a total of 10 minutes. The most memorable thing was the girl that signed me up and gave me a ballot. The moment I reached the table, she excused herself and started coughing violently, blowing her nose violently, etc. The poor thing sounded like she needed to go home and go to bed. I was a little disturbed that I had no hand sanitizer with me. Her fellow workers were worn out from obviously hearing this all morning. I hope she's okay and eventually went home.
On that note: she was fairly young. I've never seen a worker at my precinct that's under 55.
Overall, it was a good experience. At least until I hit the center of town and noticed hoards of people holding up "the other candidate's" signs. Oh well.

[Pam]

Not much to report here. I got there at 8:30 and there was one man in my line. As I walked up he went into the booth. By the time I finished signing my name he was out of the booth and I went right in.

[lizbud]

I got to the polling place at 9:30 & had voted & left in 1 hr. 30 mins. The line was long
but once inside the bldg, it went pretty quick.I was glad to see both old & young people voting.
From teens to old folks with walkers.

[CathyBogart]

Well, two weeks ago I sat down at my kitchen table and filled out my ballot. Stuck it back in the envelope, and walked out to the mailbox. No lines, no fuss.

[RICHARD]

There are signs near polling places that say "This is 100 feet to a polling place". I remember them being more common in Massachusetts when I was growing up.

I guess that's shorter than "There are 50 people in line ahead of you".



Come to Cah lee Fuh Nee Ah, Voting is fun out here!

[cyber-sibes]

I think I'll look into our local laws - there was a woman wearing a bright orange campaign shirt directing traffic at our voting place, which I felt was very inappropriate. I'm not against people showing their allegiance, but please, leave it home in you're a volunteer or paid to work at a voting place.
The voting was much lighter than last year, I was out of there in about 30 minutes - maybe it was just the time of day.

The ban on politically oriented clothing is a matter of law.
In New York no electioneering is allowed within 100 feet of a polling place, and that includes political slogans/candidate messages on clothing. I believe in Massachusetts it's either 100 or 200 feet from a polling place.

[gemini9961]

Hubby and I voted last night around 6:20pm and we were in and out in about 5 minutes. No wait at all. They just scanned my driver's license, handed me my ballot and off I went to color in my circles.