I just received an email from a DFA member with pictures

Over 5,000 people voted yesterday at the OK County Election Board and the wait was about an hour and a half. Today when we went to vote the line stretched over a mile and we waited 3 hours and 45 minutes, we will know the numbers tomorrow. It was very warm today, so churches and Dem campaigns delivered water & snacks and brought folks to the restrooms. It was fantastic.

In AZ Maricopa county ….. they have received over 500,000 early mail in ballots and every early voting center had lines, a friend waited 1 1/2 hrs to vote in central Phoenix and when his girlfriend got off of work and went to vote the line said it you were at X spot the wait would be 4 hrs…. the line went way into the parking lot…. Tempe had people waiting 7 hrs to vote on Friday….. Tempe is where ASU is…… tonight’s news showed the lines in the Scottsdale library which took over 8 1/5 hrs to clear the lines on Friday…..

I agree, real time exit polling might be meaningless

that gives me pause, I rely on exit polls to decide if the election was flipped or not

we need a system that polls early voters…that would be tought though since the results of that exit poll will have a real and measurealbe effect on real time voters

a canundrum to be sure

I’m a traditionalist. I like the ritual of voting in person on election day. Especially with new citizen Madame Punaise – casting her first presidential vote this time. That may be selfish, but it Berkeley there is very little risk of shenanigans…

the BIG difference in AZ is that the ID laws do not apply during early voting and early mail in ballots……. It stops the Repug law which requires photo ID to have matching everything including address to the Registration….. Including how the name is formatted/spelled…….

Gad, I hope people don’t give up. My arthritic old body couldn’t take standing in line for hours on end. There have been regular elections in this country since it was founded. The fact that there are still bugs in the system is a national disgrace.

hi ian…figure you’ll forgive the early ot, though it isn’t really….

hey all–this is a drive by…..again.

have been volunteering at the obama campaign for a while now….many many hours a day.it’s why i’ve been gone from here for a while.i’m too cooked when i get home to come on here.

driving people to vote early–very important to get people to the polls, get everyone you can to the board of elections by monday to make sure their vote is in.

helping at the office, entering data, running errands, helping take care of food for volunteers and canvassers.odd jobs.

it is VITAL that anyone able go to volunteer in the next few days please do it, this is ‘gotv’ get out the vote the next few days, sunday is gotv calls and canvassing and monday is hanging plackards on doors, anyone can do that.

election day will be busy also. if you have already voted, go help.

tonight i got to listen to a conference call from senator obama to the campaign precinct directors, was really something, they invited me to stay.
so articulate, but the main thing was at the end—
‘let’s not drop the ball’ he said at the end.

i am making an effort to make it happen.

so much is riding on this, so, i hope some of you show up and make it a done deal. take a friend with you.

take care, i’m exhausted, gonna go sit and stare at the tv, my brain is cooked.but in a good way. ha.

nite.

The pictures I received from OK, people brought chairs and they moved them along. Heard the same here…… At the Scottsdale Library they had people lined up through all the sitting areas and stairs……

Forget the polls ,the only thing that matters is the vote total after the election is over!

Goodnight !!
and thanks for the effort!!

There’s got to be a better way. Hope they’re staying open later and Sunday too.

Bravo!

the polls are very important in discovering if the votes have been flipped

Friday was the last day of early voting here in AZ….. Hey give us a few years….. first we have to get rid of our winger Secretary of State….. and a few other wingers….

It is astounding that Republicans portray Obama and other Dems as un-American while doing everything in their power to suppress voter turnout.

The NY Times seems to suggest that Edison/Mitofsky will be doing exit poll telephone surveys in 18 battleground states (IIRC). However, the Times reports that those surveys will be limited to land line users.

Thanks for that link…how accurate might the phone survey sample be?

I’ve been wanting to comment on Texas early voting. We often (deservedly) get a bad rap, but early voting here is a breeze. We’ve had it for a long time. Many polling places. Open long hours and weekends.Even this year, with record turnout in Bexar County (San Antonio) I haven’t heard of anyone waiting more than 20 minutes in line. Now if they’ll only vote Democratic.
Anyway, I can’t understand why it is taking so long in other states. Is it too few locations?

“… Texas doesn’t have partisan voter registration.” – Ian

Ian, that’s literally true, but in Texas, voting in a party primary is the functional equivalent of registering with a party. A Texas Democrat can always use his or her county’s canvass for the Democratic primary, joining that with the voter registration list to get precincts and addresses. Those lists, both current and historical, are readily available from the county voter registrar and/or the county clerk. In some counties, you may find some energetic Democrat has already done the work for you, and may share if you can prove your bona fides as a Democrat.

Thanks for a great post! I’m hearing the same thing as you from the locals.

i hate to think what it would be like in metro houston without early voting.

based on what i encountered in montgomery county during early voting.

very long lines.

insufficient space to accommodate the electorate.

it has become clear to me that the state’s mission is to deter the electorate: to prevent the voting.

on many occasions, i have denounced the demtillians for being as interested in deterring the vote as the reptillians.

let us see, if obombya becomes elected, will he change that situation.

personally, i think not. afer all, he is a rockefeller courtier. a feature of his existence that goes undiscussed.

when will it happen? when will we establish a government not owned by the financiers, the gangsters?

i saw a hours (and hours) long line to vote on the last day of early voting at the Academic Center polling place on UT Austin campus: at least hundreds of UT students were going to wait hours to vote.

this was about 1:00 PM and as long as they were in line by 7 PM they would be able to cast their vote.

i and some fellow volunteer deputy voter registrars spent the evening of the last day to register to vote and be able to vote in the November 4 general election registering voters and updating voter registrations.
our team was outside City Market on Airport Blvd in predominately black and Mexican-American East Austin. These efforts went on state wide.

From 2 in the afternoon to 8PM 175 voters were registered at our location.
Dozens were being worked across austin.
all were open till midnight that night.

dollars to doughnuts there will be completely overwhelmed election poll workers on November 4th.

I live in Oregon, where there is only mail-in voting state wide. This is an excellent voting method, everyone gets to vote (who’s registered), no challenges, and no waiting in line. Plus, you get to take all the time you need to review candidates, measures, etc.

I think we should push for something like this nation-wide.