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.
I like the old voting machines.
Reporting from the Red corner of the Borough.
It was the worst I’ve seen it. I’m usually the only one there voting in this sleepy part of Brooklyn, but today, there was a mob scene, a whooping 30 people at 8:30am. The blue haired ladies couldn’t turn the pages fast enough to find my name. I waited 15 minutes.
I voted at PS 62 on Cortelyou Road, and though it was chaotic and the lines were long, my District (80) was still asleep (or I live in an apathetic District) because I was in and out in 15 minutes.
I voted in Brooklyn Heights at the retirement home on Pierrepont Street at 9AM and was in and out in 24 minutes. It was a little disorganized. There was one machine for last names A-L and one machine for last names M-Z and everyone seemed to have an A-L last name. But over all it went fine. Maybe it was because it was after 9AM when most people had gone to work?
I’m planning to – just in case I commit some deportable felony.
I voted at the Brooklyn Museum at 6:05 this morning and the whole process took about 35 minutes. People were streaming down Eastern Parkway. There were a couple of people on skateboards and I passed by one woman with a lawn chair, I guess in prepartion for a long wait. I usually vote early, but this is by far the best turnout I’ve seen.
I know someone who is studying in Paris this semester. She said that there is huge enthusiasm for an Obama victory. She plans on attending an Obama victory party there that begins at midnight.
PS 21 in Bed Stuy – Chauncey and Bainbridge, ~500 people at 7:00am – – didn’t stay but will be back at 6pm!
I voted at ms 51 on 5th avenue. The line was very long but moved pretty quickly give the amount of people. If you are in line by 9pm – you have to be allowed to vote! The poll workers have a rought day ahead of them!
ditto…you going to eventually become a citizen?? Wher r u from??