Just got back from voting - Upper Manhattan

[The Time is Now]

Well, certainly, New York City and New York State will go for our president, no uncertainty there. However, I remember Nate Silver's posting on New York, which said that the proportion of registered voters in the city who actually vote is significantly less than registered voters upstate. I have never seen a New York City polling station as busy as mine was today. What is usually a two minute visit took almost half an hour. Mind you, New York has left behind the simplicity of its pull-the-lever, close-the-curtain voting booth for a modern cockamamie system where you go one place to pick up a ballot, another booth to fill it out, and a third machine to submit it. The election officials were doing a great job of keeping things moving, but the line was longer when I left than when I got there. There must have been around 200 people there, rather than the usual 10.

It's so hard to extrapolate from one's own very tiny circle, but this was an unusually busy New York City voting experience.

PS Long time DU lurker.

[yellerpup]

1. Kicking for NYC!

I've worked the polls in the past but my feet were injured and I couldn't endure being on them from 5:30AM (Voting starts at 6AM) until 9:00+PM. I am missing helping people vote today but heartened to see a good, brisk business at our precinct in Westchester today when we went out to vote at 7AM!

[NYC Liberal]

2. Ditto for me in Upper Manhattan as well

Never seen it this busy. Polling place (school) entrance is at the corner. Line stretched out almost to the end of the block (avenue to avenue, not street to street -- so even longer)

[JaneyVee]

3. I voted in Lower Manhattan. Good crowd. Wore an Obama shirt. Good times.