...or at home, for you absentee voters. Let's share them.
I voted this afternoon at 2:00. I thought the lines would be shortest either then or at 10:00 am because people who work 8:00 - 5:00 will be working (and not at lunch) (more about my feelings concerning this later if you're interested). To date, I habitually voted early or absentee because I didn't want to have to deal with the lines or Election Day chaos. I arrived at my polling place this afternoon in suburban Atlanta (so suburban, in fact, that the polling place was a subdivision club house) and thought I couldn't be in the right place. There was NO LINE. I signed in, showed my license, got my electronic ballot card, plugged it into the electronic voting machine (more later about my feelings on this if you're interested), and voted. The entire process took a total of 10 minutes. 10 MINUTES! On a day when journalists and election officials predicted long waits (and on a day when I took a book to make sure I had something to do while waiting incessantly), voting turned out to be totally and completely painless! Yay!
Now all that's left is tabulation and results watching tonight.
So let's hear about the rest of your experiences!
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I voted absentee, no problem really
You are the first person I have heard report an easy voting experience. Everyone else talks about the hours and hours of waiting. Congrats haha.
I also voted today around nine thirty in the morning. My polling location was Druid Hills High School, which is located a couple blocks off of the main Emory campus. It took me about ten minutes to walk there, and I waited in line to vote for only about fifteen minutes. The actual process of voting was easy, straight forward and quick. It felt really cool finally getting to have my say about who the next President of the United States should be.
I basically BOLTED out of my microeconomics class and went straight to the shuttles.
I got on the shuttle and double checked my waterbottle, homework, snacks, and my id. Surprisingly, getting there took probably 6 minutes. I prayedddd that the lines wouldn't be that long, and I guess I went down one corner and realized it was almost...empty.
My voting experience was awesome just because the line only took 15 minutes and because everything was touch screen, which was pretty awesome. Although I do feel bad for the people behind me because I probably made them wait a minute longer because I was having too much fun playing with the contrast and font buttons.
voted absentee for New York :)
I didn't vote in Georgia but my mom had a similar experience when she voted in PA yesterday. She only waited 5 minutes in line, which was a lot quicker than she had expected.
i thought i was going to save my self some time and vote in advance. so i decide to vote on the Friday before the election, but apparently all of Decatur decided to vote too!!! I waited in life for 4 hours until i finally had the opportunity to cast my vote. when i finally got to the voting booth, a lump formed in my stomach. the realization that after so many years of being denied the right to vote made me appreciate that moment so much. it was a very satisfying experience. oh yeah then afterward some Obama supporters decided to give a ride back to campus in a limo. so that part made up for the long wait! : )
I couldn't vote since I am 17 and thus not yet eligible. However, I did offer two friends a ride to the polls at North Druid Hills High. Although I didn't get to see much, I did feel somewhat patriotic in that I helped encourage two fellow peers to get up and vote. It only took about 10 minutes for the both of them to cast their ballots so no long wait for us!
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