How long would you/ could you wait in line to vote?

[Liberal_in_LA]

I'm hearing stories of 7 hour waits in line to early vote. News this morning, said that some people were giving up today after a few hours in line. I must say that I find it difficult just to stand in place for hours but would be highly motivated in a swing state election. I'd get my picnic chair and umbrella from the car. How about you?

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[flamingdem]

1. Just read a Facebook post about an elderly couple in line for 4 hours!

And it rained. In the Miami area.

[GETTINGTIRED]

2. People were beat and killed for our right to vote

[northoftheborder]

3. I just cannot stand more than about 30 min. If I knew there was a long wait I would take a folding

chair with me, then could wait a couple of hours, I suppose.

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. I'd need restroom breaks also - I'm assuming people are holding places in line for these folks

[Samjm]

4. The longest I have personally

waited was 4 hours. But I would have waited longer if I had to.

[Care Acutely]

5. As long as I needed to. And I would buy pizza for my "neighbors"

if that's what it took to keep them with me.

[Blue_In_AK]

6. As long as it takes.

I'm retired. But we never have long waits in Alaska. Botched elections, yes, but never long waits.

[Sheepshank]

7. If I knew the race was close and my vote mattered...I'd stay in line for as long as it took.

especially if I felt like there was a deliberate attempt to suppress numbers of voters. I'm badger-ly like that.

Folding camp chair (better still, a borrowed wheel chair), thermos of hot coffee, my Nook, the occasional meal dropped off....i'm good to go for the duration.

[quinnox]

8. about a month

and that is without food and water too...

[Scuba]

9. As long as it takes, but I'm healthy and retired, with no kids to pick up after school

Any election official who's district has wait-times over an hour should be automatically DQ'd for the job.

[Wednesdays]

10. Are you kidding me?

If people can camp out for concert tickets or the latest iPhone, it shouldn't be that big an inconvenience to wait to do something that could affect their future.

Here in a state that almost certainly won't determine the outcome, the line to my precinct was so long, the wait was 35 minutes...twice as long as I've ever waited to vote in my life.

If I had to wait a long time, I'd just haul along some lawn chairs and throw a party...pass around the bottle of wine! (Well, maybe they wouldn't allow alcohol, but chips and soda would be great, too!)

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. some people physically can't wait outside for hours.

[Wednesdays]

17. True, that. I'm just talking about myself and those who wait for iPhones.

[liberal N proud]

12. As long as it takes - these mo.fos are not going to intimidate me from my rights.

I only get to vote for President once every 4 years and I will not give up that right because some republican asshole is doing everything they can to prevent me from voting.

[fasttense]

13. If I knew RepubliCONS were trying to keep from voting,

I would stay for the duration just because I'm that mean.

But I'm a white retired military member and RepubliCONS usually assume I'm one of them.

I made a point of using my military ID when I voted. TN has all sorts of stupid voter ID rules. I was ready for a fight. But they said nothing and let me vote without a complaint. Though the woman who looked over my ID was about to ask me something but then changed her mind.

[justabob]

14. as long as it takes

I wouldn't like it, but I would do it if I had to wait like the folks in Florida and elsewhere are doing. I'd have to have a book though and a seat of some sort... one of those monopod stools or something.

[barbtries]

16. i would hope i would be as dedicated as those people

in OH and FL. but i've never had to wait more than a few minutes. in 2008 i waited for maybe a half hour, 45 minutes.

there's nothing i hate worse than standing in line. but i think and hope that i would hate giving up my vote even more than that.

[tblue37]

18. I remember how moved I felt when I saw photos of the

INCREDIBLY loooooonnnnnggggg lines of Black citizens waiting to cast their first vote when apartheid finally ended in South Africa.

Too many people have struggled and suffered--and even died!--to win the right to vote. I would never take that right for granted--and it drives me mad that so many people do!

It also drives me mad that the Republicans deliberately undermine people's right to vote and interfere with accurate vote counts through so many kinds of cheating--and even madder that the complacent Democratic Party keeps letting them get away with all their cheating!

[Samjm]

20. That's where my 4 hour wait was.

I voted in that election.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251221092

[tblue37]

21. Oh, my, Samjm--I did not realize!

I saved some of those pictures, but my place is such a mess right now that I would probably have trouble finding them.

Still, I was overwhelmed when I saw those pictures, and even now I start to puddle up thinking about those lines and what that election must have meant to the people standing in those lines for so many hours to cast their first vote.

Who knows--maybe one of those pictures I saved was taken of a line that you were in. I hope so--that would be so cool!

But, yes, too many people have suffered and died to help women and minorities win the right to vote. I am appalled that anyone would faily to take their right to vote seriously! That is also why I am so enraged that our voting process is so compromised and unreliable.

[SheilaT]

19. A lot depends on whether or not I have to

get to work after I vote.

I voted here in Santa Fe this past Saturday, and it was about 45 minutes from when I joined the line to when I walked out, having voted. It was quite pleasant, since most of the time I was outside and the weather was lovely.

I did wait outside in sleet and freezing rain for at least two hours in 2008 to attend the caucus in Kansas, our version of the primary. Many thousands of Democrats did the same that year, and it was truly inspirational.

If I thought I would be faced with a very daunting, many hours long, line to vote, I'd try to plan ahead, maybe have a chair, water, snacks. And yes, I also think a lot about potty breaks.