Long Lines, Everywhere
Already, Flickr folks are posting photos, and even this video, of long lines at the polls, all across Brooklyn. In Park Slope, the line stretched out even before the booths opened at 6AM. Bring coffee. Prepare to wait. Where did you vote? How long did it take? Any problems? Video by wnyc.
Oh My God! I couldn’t be happier. Long, arduous, up-hill climb to come, but one we can now take on with confidence.
I am listening to people, so happy, screaming and honking outside our window. I am smiling. All is as it should be.
Mint juleps tomorrow night! I’m buying!!
Yes we DID!
HE DID IT!! It’s a great day for our country and for the world. Congratulations to President Obama.
A few years ago there was a mix up and they didn’t have my name in the book so I was required to fill out a paper ballot. I asked them when it would be counted. They told me it would not be counted or even opened unless the results were close and/or there was a challenge.
It’s worth my time to go to my polling place to have my vote counted no matter what. I want to contribute to the mandate I’m hoping for.
One reason the lines are so long is that our machines aren’t manufactured anymore, so the state can’t just put out more machines. The poll watcher at my booth told me we’re scheduled to get new machines next year (“Did you know Abraham Lincoln was elected on this machine right here?” he joked), but I’ve been hearing that since 2001. I refuse to vote absentee unless it’s necessary – the communal aspect of the experience is important. I saw lots of people – especially African-Americans – bring their kids, some dressed in their Sunday finest, and take pictures by the voting booths. It made things take a bit longer, but nobody cared.
90 minutes this morning in the Slope. I’ve never seen anything like it.
cobblehiller- DIBS wants everyone! (But I do remember seeing your username first)
biff- everyone got DIBS first 🙂
I voted at about 1:30 at PS 92 on Parkside, bet. Bedford &
Rogers Avenues in PLG. The lines were moderately long, but very fast moving. The whole process only took 15 minutes, in part because there was NO line for the 69th ED covering my block [Lefferts Manor blocks have relatively low population density] and an election worker came out looking for people who voted there. Even without that, it wouldn’t have taken more than 5 minutes longer. Earlier in the day our local Lefferts Yahoo list had a number of posts talking about 2+ hour waits.
I’ve voted in 9 presidential elections since moving to PLG. I’ve seen some where the lines were as long as they were in mid-afternoon today, when I voted, and I considered that a heavy turnout. I’ve never seen or heard of anything remotely like the very long waits people reported this morning.
I’m pretty sure DIBS doesn’t want me! [boo-hoo-hoo, sob sob]
I’m not so sure I was first, only Brownstoner would know that. I just blab more often!