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["U. Jason Gloege Jr." <ujgloege AT gmail.com>]

I voted at Triangle Presbyterian Church in Durham.  Got to the polling
place at 6:45 a.m. to find a decently long line, in which I waited for
probably 30-35 minutes before getting into the building.  Inside, they
were taking folks in bunches of probably 40 people at a time, and were
chewing through the certification lines pretty quickly.  I got lucky
in that there were only 5 people in the F-L [or whatever it was... it
contained G] line, and then the serpentine line to actually get my
ballot took another 20 minutes.  All told, I think I was there for
about 75 minutes, and that was pretty good.  Apparently folks has
begun lining up at about 5:30-5:45 for the opening at 6:30.  By the
time I walked out the door just before 8, there had already been ~200
ballots cast, according to the scanner/ballot acceptor doohickey.

Jason

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 11:29:02 -0500, Chris Grindstaff <chris AT gstaff.org> wrote:
> Tuesday, November 2, 2004, 11:06:19 AM, you wrote:
> 
> DD> Well, I just had an excellent voting experience -- at my polling place,
> DD> it usually takes me about one minute to vote, due to pretty low
> DD> turnout.  Today, it took 20 minutes!  There were lots of people there,
> DD> and the poll workers did some smart things to move the line along (the
> DD> guy manning the optical scan machine handed out markers for people to
> DD> mark their ballots in other areas, which relieved the bottleneck of the
> DD> 10 carrels).  I only saw one voter look at the line and decide to come
> DD> back later.  Everyone seemed cheerful.  Whatever the outcome, I think
> DD> this election has been good for our democracy.
> 
> In North Raleigh (off Norwood) it took me 45 minutes, I arrived at
> 7:50am. From talking with the poll volunteers the lines were much
> worse at 6:30 am. Apparently there was a line at 5:00 am!
> 
> Chris
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