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.
9:16am to 1:20pm = 100 posts
Almost everybody showed up here!!
2-1/2 hours — 8:25 to 10:55 in downtown (104, 107, 105 EDs). The 107th ED is the worst. People from the BLS dorm and 110 Livington all showed up this time.
Voted at 282 after lunch. Line was still wrapped around to berkeley but was moving OK.
I was able to jump the line entirely though, because I had the little white card with my district info etc. on it. They weren’t too clear about telling people in line this, which is dumb.
Once inside, aside from being fairly disorganized and very hot and humid, things weren’t too bad. You had to ask other voters which line was for which election district because they were all jumbled together, but everyone seemed fairly cheerful and patient.
Probably less than 30 minutes total.
I tried to avoid what I knew would be long lines at 6:00 in the morning and 6:00 at night. Instead, I headed out to my polling site at 10:30 a.m. Yet, when I got there, the line was wrapped all the way around the corner and down the block! Truth is, I have never been so happy to see such a long line in all my life.
The joy was especially significant because my polling site is JHS 320 — off Empire Boulevard between Frankling and Bedford (Crown Heights/PLG). In other words, it’s a polling site that is located in a largely low-income/working class/politically disenfranchised community of color. Voting at this site — even for federal elections or hotly contested state and local races and federal elections, is usually a run in-run out type of task. So, in the 20 years I’ve been voting in this district, I’ve never seen the polls so crowded. Amazing how the electorate can become energized when there is not only a strong perception that one has a real choice but also that real change may be possible!
In all, the poll workers had an excellent organizing system and the whole process probably took maybe only an hour or so. Even so, the wait time was more like party time. I ran into old friends as well as met a bunch of neighbors I did not know before who could easily become a circle of new friends. There were so many smiles, grins, laughter and excitement in the air that the place was simply electric. Having the opportunity to cast my vote amongst all this energy and optimism qualifies as the greatest vote-casting high of my life! (Now let’s all pray that the party that majors in stealing elections won’t be able to undo the peoples’ will this time).
Yes. We most definitely CAN!
Are there still any “undecided” out there???
I voted at PS 20 in Clinton Hill. It took about 1 1/2 hours from start to finish. Well worth the wait.
“Two years of non stop Obama media gushing successfully brainwashed the a majority of this country.”
So not unlike the brainwashing by the Bush administration with regard to weapons of mass destruction (which didn’t exist) and increasing their power while in office?
I’ll take some brainwashing by someone who actually wants to do good by this country instead of by someone who seemingly wanted to run it into the ground.
I voted at PS 20 in Clinton Hill. It took about 1 1/2 hours from start to finish. Well worth the wait.
My assistant said he had almost a three-hour wait at PS 58 in Carroll Gardens…