Check in after you've voted in Wisconsin!

[undeterred]

I voted in Madison - the wait was one and a half hours...and I knew I was surrounded by Democrats.

:kick:

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Hell, just walking down the street in Mad City you know you're surrounded by Democrats.

A far cry from my day in that town, when you walked down the street & knew you were surrounded by Maoists, Wobblies, Weathermen, Panthers and Yippies.

Oh, and my wife (another ex-Madisonian of that era) and I voted in rural Chippewa Falls. Do I need to say for whom?

[CLANG]

2. Voted in Madison - took 15 minutes

[geekgrrl]

8. what time of the day did you go? I went a couple days ago and the line was LONG nt

[CLANG]

11. I went at 11:15 AM.

[undeterred]

3. Clerk posted that as many people have now voted early

as voted in the September primary.

[MadDad]

4. voted early

I voted last week in Madison. The wait was about 40 minutes.

[AllyCat]

23. Welcome to DU MadDad!

[eyesroll]

5. I voted in Milwaukee a couple of weeks ago.

No wait at 11 a.m. on a Tuesday.

[Bushfire]

9. Voted yesterday

around 2pm. It took about 20 minutes with about 50 people in front of me. I heard the line was longer downstairs in the muni building.

[Nipper1959]

6. Voted 2 weeks ago

in Wausau. No wait at all.

[goddess40]

13. me too, five minutes tops

I took my son last Wednesday and it took about fifteen minutes - his first presidential election!

[Lefta Dissenter]

7. No wait

in Town of Middleton, on October 7 when I voted! :hi:

[eyesroll]

10. Oh, and for those of you in Elm Grove...

;-)

No wait when I was at Village Hall drop off some (unrelated) paperwork for my job. But there was someone there voting!

[undeterred]

12. There was a very pregnant lady in line

who said her due date was before the election- I thought we should let her go to the front of the line, but the decorum of early voting does not allow this. She eventually got a chair, though.

[midnight]

16. Who writes the decorum rules. I like your idea better. It makes

sense. There should be the overriding rule for those who fall into a particular physical issue, ie. pregnancy, oxygen masks etc...

[midnight]

14. Good to hear..... I get to be surrounded by the nice republicans.

[PeaceNikki]

15. Me, too. As I was in '06 and had the same giddy feeling I do now.

We're going to sink 'em like a 3 foot putt. :)

[dragonlady]

17. I voted last week

And I treated myself to the pleasure of filling in all the arrows next to the names rather than voting straight ticket.

[Lefta Dissenter]

18. Hey!

Check out the new "I voted" avatar, courtesy of EmperorHasNoClothes! :hi:

[wintoursghost]

19. Voted on Oct. 20th

Straight Dem...

Everyone help Get the VOTE OUT.

Offer to drive poor voters in your area.
Call Red Cross or Local Unifed Dem offices.

DO NOT LET ONE VOTE GET SUPRESSED.

Keep an eye open at your poll, GOP observers are evil doers.

[AllyCat]

24. Welcome to DU!

You're right...don't let them get suppressed!

[Dinger]

20. I Voted A Week Ago, And So Did My Husband (nt)

[RevCheesehead]

21. I voted a week ago. n/t

[ginnyinWI]

22. Where can I vote?

We just got back from a 12 day vacation and want to go and vote tomorrow. Is my regular polling place where we should go? I'm in Waukesha county.

[AllyCat]

25. You probably have to vote at the Clerk's office.

Call them and they can tell you where to vote early

[ginnyinWI]

27. we called this morning

We can vote absentee either today or Monday until 5 p.m. But I want to personally put my optical scan ballot into the machine this time. Voted absentee last time. To me, that's just not early voting.

[mduffy31]

26. Was able to vote in 5 minutes in Douglas County.

The only Democrat I couldn't vote for was someone that I personally know and he is a tool, but he is running unopposed, just couldn't fill in the oval with his name.

[lizziegrace]

28. I voted in early October

Registered and voted the same day. It took 10 minutes total.

:)

[Sabriel]

29. Voted absentee in Appleton last week.

Wheeeeee!

[geekgrrl]

30. Voted Friday in Madison-- waited about 1.5 hours. It was an Obama crowd!! nt

[Serial Mom]

31. Voted yesterday!

We were so excited, interesting watching people leave - they appeared to be either solemn, or smiling. I couldn't pick up on who they may have been voting for, so I will assume those smiling were voting for OBAMA!

[undeterred]

32. I heard that 25,000 have already voted in Madison

and the clerks office is open this afternoon. WOW!

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[AllyCat]

33. Voted today in Stoughton

We waited about 20 minutes at the city hall. I could not believe how many people were there. Usually, I just walk right in. Today we had to check in with one office, fill out a form, then stand in line to vote one at a time in the Clerk's office. They were doing their best, but it was pretty imperfect given the small space and number of people (about a dozen at 10:30 with all their kids in tow).

Tomorrow is going to be nuts.

[elocs]

34. I voted in La Crosse on 6 October at my City Clerk's office.

When I first got there in the afternoon they had just received the ballots, so I returned on my way home a couple of hours later and cast my ballot. Yesterday, the last day for early voting, there was a line with an hour wait to vote at City Hall.

[Connonym]

35. That was very painless

1 person in front of me in line, took less than 10 minutes including the drive time.

[PeaceNikki]

36. I voted.

I was # 396 at 9:00 am in a community with a total population of 8,500. We had 2 polling places for the 1st time ever. I got rather emotional and had to take a long moment to take it all in and look through teary eyes to check 438 times that I filled in the proper arrow.

:patriot:

[I_Will]

37. 5 minutes for me; voter #309 at 8am

the line was out the door and around the block earlier (7:00am), though. 10-12 booths made for a quick visit.

[fudge stripe cookays]

38. Over an hour in line.

This morning at the Enderis Park playfield/sporthouse thing.

I pulled up at 6:30 to get in line, and the line was already winding out the door and halfway across the park. By 7:00, it was across the park. It was FABULOUS! I was voter #90.

I got out at quarter to 8, and promptly got to Starbucks for my freebie. :D

[B3Nut]

39. Done in Mt Horeb this morning

Mrs. Nut and I got there 15 minutes or so after the polls opened, and people were piling in...I've never seen the polling place that busy. MoHo leans pretty heavily Democratic usually, so I have no doubt our man is carrying the vote there. :)

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

[gizmo1979]

40. Voted in Sheboygan 7 am

short line no problems.Been out canvasing since then taking a break right now.

[ginnyinWI]

41. We voted!

No lines at our re-county suburban polling place. Then we went to Starbucks where my daughter got a free cup of coffee for turning in her "I voted" sticker.

I voted for the Independent running against Sensenbrenner. Any hope there?

[schmuls]

42. Voted in Milwaukee at 7:20 a.m. - very long lines!

[midnight]

43. voted over lunch time and no lines. I found out that my daughter's

vote by mail ballot was not counted and would not be counted until the polls close tonight. Is that how it's down in Wisconsin?

[undeterred]

45. Thats what they told me when I voted early at the clerks office.

All the early and absentee ballots are sorted by precinct and will be counted when the polls close tonight. Might take a bit longer- we had 32,000 vote early, but I believe they will count everything. We have 2 referenda on the ballot. They are expecting we could get 90% turnout in Dane County.

[Connonym]

52. this is why I was hesitant to vote absentee

I know a lot of people on DU were pushing for early votes but the way we do it in WI I didn't really understand what the benefit would be.

[undeterred]

55. Just to free up time at the polls on election day.

Some of the polling places have a few hundred people at the door when they open at 7am because everyone wants to vote before work. And there will always be some people who want to register the day of the election.

A schoolteacher I know said her polling place was too crowded before work so she came back after work and she was number 1562- they have 2200 registered voters in her precinct.

[dragonlady]

61. It depends on where you live

In Milwaukee the absentee ballots (early voting included) were all counted at a central location. Where I vote the poll workers feed them through the machine whenever they have time during the day. Some places seem to leave them until after the polls close, but that seems to me to drag out the process unnecessarily.

[dembotoz]

44. no lines in grafton at like 1:45

walk in walk out number like 170
which is good
because this is a very red area

[ralps]

46. I voted at about 3pm in NW Milwaukee, no lines, no problems!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[jellen]

47. voting

I voted in a small town hall at noon. I was the only one in the place.

[Callalily]

48. Just finished voting!

Number 609. Ward 9 in Appleton. Fast, but steady lines.

[RetroLounge]

49. Voted this morning at 7am!

:woohoo:

RL

[htuttle]

50. I was voter #1418 at the Wilmar in Madison

I've never been above #800 before, and I voted an hour earlier than I usually do (3:30 pm instead of 4:30 pm)

:woohoo:

Only took 15 minutes, as usual.

[Jimbo S]

51. City of Waukesha

Arrived at 5:45 pm and we were done in five minutes.

[eyesroll]

54. Where'd you vote?

I made a delivery to City Hall and saw steady, but not crowded, traffic, at around 3:30 pm.

[Jimbo S]

59. Heyer School

Wards 25 and 26 I believe.

Looks as if they may have redrawn the boundries. In 2004, one line was 1.5 hours long and the other had two people. This year, each table just had one or two people waiting. I'm unaware of anything else that was different. Go figure.

[Homer12]

53. Voted at Sherman Multi-cultural at 3:45pm

Then my wife and I went to Nomad for a free 'I voted Beer"

Like a true Wisconsinite!

[ewagner]

56. Had to wait

for the (obviously) better half (aka THE FOOD NAZI) to get off work so we went after 6:30...

TONS of votes in our precinct (about 65%)...people arriving every minute...no wait but busy just the same....

oh yeah...

add two more to Obama's total!!!

:bounce: :bounce:

[Viking12]

57. Better late than never. I voted at 3:30pm, #1323 at my precint

[Greybnk48]

58. I voted in Appleton at around noon with no wait at all.

What a day! I sure hope Penny Schaeber wins for State Assembly 57 (I'm pretty sure it's 57).

[Seldona]

60. Menomonie. Five minute wait at 5 in the afternoon.

Looks like a LARGE turnout.

[sybylla]

62. Sorry I'm reporting late

MadAsHell and the boys voted early but I waited until election day. Voted at 10am, only one in the town hall and was voter number 63.

I spent the rest of that morning putting out door hangers for Obama and watched a poll from 3pm to close. Went straight to the election bash in my county and just haven't had time to post.

Funny thing is, MadAsHell just noticed that turnout in our county was down from 2004. Obama only got about 500 more votes than Kerry (who lost here) but still won the county with a pretty good percentage. Apparently the pukes just didn't get to the polls.

[ewagner]

63. Noticed the same thing

in your neighboring county.....especially my city....77% turnout this time as opposed to 81% last time...but a BIG win (okay...57% ) for Obama in this mostly Repub city...

btw: good seeing you and madashell yesterday....enjoyed celebrating while the repub businessmen went to the back room to lick their wounds....

also fun....

I walked into my car repair place this morning and a customer and the staff were standing around "awfulizing" the election results...they are ALL hard core Limbaugh-ditto-heads....I told them I wanted to cancel my appointment because I've decided to trade the car in and the smart-ass customer says, "Just wait a month or two and the government will buy you a new one!" I replied, "God, I just love the smell of conservative desperation in the morning...it smells like VICTORY!" :rofl: :rofl:

[sybylla]

64. Oh, now that's a hobby I could get into

-kicking repubs while they're down.