Reply #21: At my precinct [View All]

There was a long line when we opened at 6:00. It got longer. Between the people who had checked in and were waiting to vote and the people waiting to check in, I think we had about a thousand people waiting at the peak time in the morning. We definately needed more voting machines. One froze with only 7 votes on it; rebooting it didn't make it work. We had another one brought in to replace it.
By lunchtime, the lines had eased up. Several times during the day, some of the machines needed to be rebooted. They came back and were totally functional. Rebooting a machine does not cause it to lose votes.
By 3:00, the lines to check-in had eased to a trickle. There was always a wait for the machines.
At 7:00 there was no-one waiting to check-in, only about a dozen waiting for the machines.
:) All the machines were included in the vote talleys, even the one with 7 votes. The number of people voting was the same as the number of votes cast. Kerry took our precinct 58% to 40% for Bush.
:( I have no idea what went on outside, but I heard parking was hard to come by in the school parking lot.
:( I think it must have been a two hour wait at peak.
:) The mid afternoon was definately the time I would choose to vote if I wasn't already there as a poll worker.