How long would you wait in line to vote if you had to?

[KamaAina]

Give this some thought. I maxed out at a half-hour in New Haven in '92. Back then, the line out the door in that solid Dem precinct told me for sure that Bush 41 was going down.

These days, I'm not so sure. The hours-long lines we've been seeing from Cleveland in '04 to Milwaukee tonight strike me as just another form of Jim Crow vote suppression.

And today, in a primary in largely vote-by-mail California? All to myself.

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	I'm from Cleveland. Nine hours and one minute!!
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	Overnight if I have to!!
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	I vote absentee or by mail
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	I'm still in line in Milwaukee!
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[pinboy3niner]

1. As long as it takes

[Luminous Animal]

11. +1

Yep. And I love going to the polls and seeing my fellow citizens engaging in the political process. No absentee for me, ever.

[MADem]

2. I think more of us should plan ahead and vote absentee or ahead of time if the election officials

permit it. If not, we should be motivated to get up at the asscrack of dawn to be there when they open the doors.

We all know which areas are difficult, they aren't going to be easier this time around.

I am lucky--I never have had to wait to vote. I've either voted absentee when I lived abroad (most of the time) or, when I vote in person, I live in a small enough burg that I never have to wait.

[TheWraith]

3. Depends. What am I voting for?

Budget propositions? You've got 10 minutes of my time. President? Close congressional race? Don't worry about me, I've got a tent.

[KamaAina]

7. For whatever reason, budget propositions seldom have lines out the door

come to think of it, neither do races like these -- in comfortable white suburban and small-town precincts.

[SoutherDem]

4. I chose not to answer because

it would depend on the election. If I felt my voice would make a difference then as long as needed. Being that I live in Alabama where Republicans always win by double digits I don't know.

[KamaAina]

8. Dems do occasionally win in 'Bama

but only in urban areas like Birmingham and Mobile. Statewide? "I fell your pain!"

[SoutherDem]

12. For the record I have been voting since 1985

I have yet to miss any election except for one city election. Every primary, every general election I have voted. I live in a strong Republican house district and a strong Republican state district. So far I have help elect two governors James and Siegelman other than that not one senate or house vote, national or state, that I have voted for has won. And, although we have had Democratic presidents my states electoral votes went to Republicans.
So voting for me is very frustrating, but I still do.
The OP spoke of how long one would wait in line. Because of where I live, a crowded polling place might take 15 minutes to go through the line. Usually it takes 5 minutes. There simply are not enough people assigned to the polling place for it to get crowded.

[KamaAina]

5. Is someone really still in line in Milwaukee?

At almost 11 PM CDT?

Is there any way you could live-blog this??

[RC]

6. Depends on how important the election was.

And if it were when the polls first opened or in the evening.
If in the morning, I could come back later.
None of this is covered in the OP

[KamaAina]

9. There are apparently long lines in Milwaukee tonight

just as there were in Cleveland in '04 -- when Ohio threw the (s)election to Bush**.

[Luminous Animal]

10. It's my civic duty. I'd wait as long as it took. Even if the election has been called

and my candidate has conceded.

[pnwest]

13. however long it takes. if i go, i'm not leaving til i vote.

[renate]

14. at night?... as long as it took

(And since I live in Oregon, where we vote by mail on countable paper ballots and the angels sing in thanksgiving, I don't have to wait in line at all, which is precisely as it should be.) But voting doesn't work that way. So many working people can't take time out of their day. Which I'm sure doesn't affect Democratic candidates one bit.