What Is With the FL Voting System

[Luv2Roam]

Part vent and part
We all know about the 2000 voting FL fiasco.
As a new Floridian I am truly puzzled by how in the heck this state manages anything voting related.

I guess this election is the first election they are allowing early voting. For around the last week voters in this county have had 8 different locations where they can vote early. Tomorrow the regular precincts will be open.
Thinking we would get our voting out of the way we arrived Sunday (yesterday) at opening.
Someone told me today the line was a quarter of a mile long. And that would not surprise me.
We had PS at MK for dinner, to be followed by MNSSHP.
If we stayed we were guessing it would be up until the time we would have to leave for the party. and miss the PS. We stayed a short time and the line did not seem to be moving at all.
I took off work today. I thought 1:00 p.m. would be a good time to stand in line.

Well, the line was 1/3 or 1/4 of what it was yesterday and they were estimating it was a three hour wait to vote.
The sun was broiling and we were having to stand in full sun on a asphalt parking lot.
I decided to take my chances tomorrow morning.
DH waited, and still is waiting for all I know. He arrived there almost 4 hours ago.
He said they were cutting off the line at 5:00 p.m. With even that he is guessing not everyone in line will be done voting until 9:00 p.m. tonight.

Part of the problem -- ONE computer was being used to check voters in. One computer used to check them out.

I will not be surprised if the FL voting gets raked over the coals again.

 

[Luv2Roam]

DH got in line at 2:15.
It is almost 7:00 and he is guessing he is still an hour away from voting.

 

[arminnie]

It's not quite that bad in Arkansas, but it has been running 1 1/2 to 2 hours of wait time. I think it was 4 hours today, but only one place was open today.

Everyday I am SO glad that my dad and I voted two weeks ago on the first day of voting. We went during a tornado alert with sirens screaming and had virtually no wait - about 5-6 people ahead of us.

 

[kylara]

Yup, we will be front and center in the news. Actually Broward already is for all the missing absentee ballots...the ones that got mailed but seems to have gone missing en route. Post Office is taking most of the flak for that though.

As for the wait, here is one for you. Yesterday one of the early voting sites closed at 5pm, still have a long line at 11pm (the 5pm closing time means no one can get in line but they finish the line out), and then at 11:10pm, right as the news starts doing their live shot from the voting site, the computers go down. So these poor people who have been waiting in line for about 8 hours, now can not vote since no one is in the main office to get the computers back up.

And I thought it was bad early last week when I waited a little over an hour to early vote.

 

[safetymom]

We went to vote today and the line was very long. Hopefully it won't be like that tomorrow. I did bring a chair with me just in case.

They need to have a better system!!!!!

 

[Poohbear123]

Plackard on my door today, to remind me to vote......its the WRONG precinct address! I hope everyone else on my block voted, or they will be turned away.