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In reply to the discussion: What's the longest you've ever stood in line to vote? [View all]gratuitous
(82,849 posts)21. Less than half an hour in the long-ago beforetimes
I used to vote at the church two blocks down the street, and if memory serves, I never waited much more than 10 or 15 minutes when I didn't just walk right up to the table to get my ballot and have my name checked off. Living in Oregon, though, means your ballot is hand delivered to your home a couple of weeks before election day by a uniformed carrier of the United States Postal Service. I can sit down over a cup of coffee on a weekend morning, thumbing through the Voter's Guide provided by the Secretary of State's office, and vote on the candidates and ballot measures at my considerable leisure.
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Two hours... for the first day of early voting... for Barack Obama's first term.
NurseJackie
Oct 2020
#14
I think it was around 2 hours voting for President Obama in Chicago in 2008 It was MAGICAL
mucifer
Oct 2020
#19
2 hours-ish in 2004. I barely made it before they cut off the line at closing time.
pnwest
Oct 2020
#34
I can't remember ever waiting in a line, and if I did it must have only been a couple
Luciferous
Oct 2020
#50
Probably about 90 minutes to two hours, and that was when I went with my sister...
W_HAMILTON
Oct 2020
#51
Registered and voted same day early voting as a homeless person - maybe 15 minutes.
BluesRunTheGame
Oct 2020
#57