I was actually an inspector at one of the 100 busiest sites in Orange County, CA. I was basically "the boss" of the poll workers at my polling place. The polls opened at 7, but we had a line starting before 6am. We were busy until about 8am and then it was really smooth the rest of the day with no more than 10 people in line at a time. We had 4 poll watchers come in to count names on our street roster and had a few people in the parking lot passing out literature and harassing some voters. We had to call security. There were only 3 people wearing political t-shirts that I had to have them turn inside out. In all, it went better than I had anticipated. It was my first time working an election and I think I would do it again. It was a great experience and the majority of the people were really nice.

We voted by mail. DD lives in Los Angeles, and she and her DH took their toddler with them first thing in the morning to vote. They had a little wait, but not the long wait they feared, and everyone working there had a great time cooing over their 22 month son, who loved all the attention.

No problems. But then I am fortunate to be a voter who already knows the process. Of the four precinct workers who sat at the table only one spoke fluent English, one spoke quite broken English and 2 sat, smiled and pointed. I'm very pleased that they want to be part of the process and basically give up a whole day to do so but sheesh. I had a minor comment about something and it took 3 of them to answer. The polling place had just me and a couple of other voters when I went.

no problems at all other than a pretty long line we waited in before the polls opened...(we were 77&78) it was awesome cause we're usually that number after work! (we're in the burbs)

there were a few problem in detroit..ran out of ballots! (sent for more, asap) and added extra booths...

Jammer and I voted early. We were the only ones there and were in and out within minutes. It's a good thing we went then because Jammer has not been home since Monday!

I vote in a very small township. I arrived at 11:30 a.m. and there was only one person outside handing out literature (for my candidate). I told him he was preaching to the choir, and we chatted briefly. He was an older man, and he said in all his years at the polls he'd never seen as many cars come in and out as he did that day.

No line inside, but they said they'd had a line when they opened at 7:00 a.m. and they expected another crowd after work. I was #328.

Dh and I did absentee voting at the courthouse in the county seat. There were 5 people ahead of us and we waited about 10 minutes. Everyone in line chit chatted and the time went by fast.
Linda

No problems. DH and I drove up around 2p m , there was plenty of parking. Walked right in, signed in, voted, and left. No problems at all. Been voting at the same place (local High School) since 1981. My SIL voted early, by absentee ballot, because she's on a week-long cruise.

No problems here. Mom and I went, didn't have to wait at all in line. There were 5 or 6 others setting at tables, and 1 or 2 in the booths. I took a booth, and Mom took a seat at one of the tables.
Leslie

We walked over around 10 in the morning, and there was no wait.
More people hawking the candidates than voters.

My DH and I went the first day of early voting and had to stand in line for about 20 or 30 minutes. I was surprised since we went in early, but apparently, early didn't mean much in our town. LOL I would have not wanted to try it on the 4th at all.

We voted at an elementary school in the neighborhood, where we've voted many times before (primary election, though, it was at the school district office). We got there a little after 9:00 a.m. I was number 160.

Crawl on local news station said if you arrived after 9 but before noon or after 1 and before 5 you should have no problem. HA! I arrived at our polling place and waited for an hour and forty minutes and it was raining. Ugh. But I wasn't going to try again later as I figured it would be worse. They divided us up into two groups A-J and K-Z. What a mess that was. A few people got upset as the first group moved a lot faster then did the second one. I learned later that they had a problem with one of the machines in the K-Z group so I imagine that was part of the problem.

We vote at a local church community room. We were in and out in about 25 minutes, getting there around 9:30. No one outside with literature, either.

I voted after work at like 6 pm and was in and out.. the curious thing was though that at no point did i have to show my ID, which is odd since it was my first time voting in DC...

The line was longer than usual, but no problems. It took about 10 minutes, all told.

We voted early, waited until the 3rd day. We had one couple in front of us. Took about 5 minutes, no problems, nothing unusual or exciting.

I voted EARLY...no lines at the polling place I chose. However walking out the "line" was forming.

It was an experience..1st time I have been asked for my ID being a registered voter for 30 years in Nevada. Any "new" voter ie: 18 year old...it was announced and everyone joined in..."applause" was given and a "thumbs up"! Poor girl that was there experiencing this was a bit "red faced"!

In all my voting years...this IS an election I will speak positively about when I am elderly! What an historic moment for the United States and the world!!!!

There will BE change and we will be the better from it!

I know I'm way late posting this, but I've gotta tell someone....

We were first in line. Proved who we were, signed the book. Moved down to the lady handing out ballots. There were three sets, one for city residents, one for something-I'm not sure what, and one for the county--that's me. Only thing was, there weren't any ballots for county residents. They looked and looked and couldnt find them.

I suggested to the workers' boss he send someone to the nearest precint (just across the street) and borrow some. He "didn't know" where the nearest precinct was. I told him. Then he didn't have anyone to send. I said I'd go. Nope. Then the box you feed the ballot into jammed, and NO ONE could vote. People were backing up and milling around--it was a mess.

I went home. Hubby stayed, and got home about 20 minutes later. The jammed box was un-jammed and they "found" the "missing" ballots in the box with the others where they were all along.

I don't think it was anything sinister, but it sure was a nuisance. (and yes, I went back and stood in line, and voted)

Jann