Voting Times

This is my first time voting at P.S. 9. I have a mid-morning appointment in Manhattan (stupid, stupid me for scheduling this then). I could stand in line for the polls at 6am, but I wonder if I'm better off coming back to BK after the meeting, and voting in the midday. Does anyone have any experience with this? Part of me thinks that the two ends of the day will be crowded, but that the lines might thin during midday, and I'm better off taking advantage of that.

The other part of me thinks that anything could happen for this election, so there is really no knowing for sure.

I'd go with the no-knowing-for-sure theory. There was no line at all for the primaries at 7:30PM, but that's not very indicative of a presidential election. I'm inclined to think that the ends of the day will be more crowded, just as you said. I'm planning on going mid-day to see what happens.

I agree that midday is best if you can swing it. Although I went midday at the last Presidential and there were lines. A quick plug for P.S 9 bake sale... the school is in great need for funding and rely heavily on the bake sale to cover expenses, so consider stopping at the tables where they will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as lots of sweets!! Thanks.

parrothead wrote: I agree that midday is best if you can swing it. Although I went midday at the last Presidential and there were lines. A quick plug for P.S 9 bake sale... the school is in great need for funding and rely heavily on the bake sale to cover expenses, so consider stopping at the tables where they will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as lots of sweets!! Thanks.

Okay, sweet! When I'm not busy voting out the party that gave us a $546,287,167,351,343,739,360 defense budget and a $.02 budget for education, I know where I"ll be eating lunch tomorrow.

I've worked at many polls all day long. There are usually very few people 6am to 7am. The busiest times are 7am to 9:30am. It cools off after that, usually to nothing, with a slight uptick at lunch. Then there is the after-work rush from 6pm to 8pm, and it often slows down at the very end.

where exactly is our local polling station?

you can find your polling location by going here:

www.voteforchange.com

as for when to go, i recommend early in the AM when polls open. people very rarely go that early. the evening tend to get very busy on a presidential general election.

great thanks!

just voted at PS9
got there at 5:45 .. they didn't open the doors until approx 6:13
got out at around 6:40
would have been faster but I had to do a paper ballot because I'm newly registered and they didn't have my name in the book but I had my mailer from the BoE

as of now the line is out the door down to the corner of St Mark's and then about 2/3's of the way down to Vanderbilt Ave

I vote at PS 321. I got there at 6:20. It took about 30 mins to get to the voting machine. The line was long but it moved and it was very controlled inside.

I was out by 7:00.

What an inspiring day.

Voted at P.S.9. Got there at 6:45, out by 8:15. Lines are longer now. I was #75 in the 42nd ED/ 72 AD.

Amazing, inspiring amount of voter turnout.

But bring a book and a cup of coffee.

Wow. I'm kinda afraid for how bad it's gonna be when I get there, 7-month old daughter in tow, at 4:30-4:45.

The line is halfway down St. Marks right now.

I heard it was 1-1/2 hours at PS9 this morning. I'm planning to leave work early to vote this afternoon.

If anyone has a midday report on the lines at PS9, I'd love to hear it.

PS 316 took me 1.5 hours this morning at 7 am (line was to Washington).

PS 316 took me 1:45 at 8:15; the line was along Sterling, then up Washington and back around to Park. When I left at 10:00, it had gone down some, but was still halfway up Washington toward Park.

eterpay wrote: I heard it was 1-1/2 hours at PS9 this morning. I'm planning to leave work early to vote this afternoon.

If anyone has a midday report on the lines at PS9, I'd love to hear it.

I left my apartment about 8:45 am and was back home by 10 am. I think that I waited a little over an hour. The line stretched just to the end of the schoolyard when I got on it, and was just about at Albert's Stained Glass when I left. So, it got a little longer.

For the amount of people standing in line, it really moved quickly. People were really into the spirit of the day, and the mood was almost festive. For some reason, if you were in the 40/52 voting district, you got to move to the head of the line. Why is no one from that area voting???

Go with your district information in hand--otherwise there's another line inside the school for looking it up. I would definitely think that lines this afternoon are going to get longer--maybe approaching 2 hours waiting. If you can at all get there this afternoon, do so.

BKChickie wrote:
For the amount of people standing in line, it really moved quickly. People were really into the spirit of the day, and the mood was almost festive. For some reason, if you were in the 40/52 voting district, you got to move to the head of the line. Why is no one from that area voting???.

Do you mean Election or Assembly districts?

Back in the NYT:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/early-lines-reported-at-many-polling-places/

Line at Brooklyn Museum was about an hour and a half at around 10:15.

@BKChickie - I think some districts have far fewer people than others, so it's not that they're not voting..there just aren't that many of them.

I vote in the 28th, and our line was much longer than some of the others because we're Lincoln Pl., St. Johns and Eastern Parkway and we have a lot of big buildings and no brownstones.

Here's my take on the people who voted at PS9: assholes. Well, if you were one of the owners of the hundred or so coffee cups piled on the city garbage can and then dumped onto the ground on the corner of St.Marks and Underhill that is.

Vote for change! Continue to litter!

It doesn't matter who wins this election. We're completely bankrupt as a country and I'm not talking financially. We just don't give a fuck about anything.

If you're patting yourself on the back for standing in line and doing your civic duty....but tossed garbage on the ground...you're the worst kind of person alive.

....the line was about a half hour round 11:30. It's much shorter now.

Old Time Brooklyn wrote: We're completely bankrupt as a country and I'm not talking financially. We just don't give a fuck about anything.

I hereby remove myself and every other person I know from your "we".

uh, anyhoo....

just got back from ps22, where i waited about 2 hours. it was shorter if you didn't live in ed 33 or even if you did and had a last name in the 2nd half of the alphabet -- the gf was out of there way ahead of me.

the woman behind me in line says she's been voting at that school for 30 years and never seen it like that. when we got inside, though, she said they used to have LOTS more voting machines. there were only 7 for the whole place.

they had long ago run out of free coffee things, and while the gf got an "i voted sticker", they were out of those by the time i was done. (but i made her give me hers.)

exciting times, man.

I went to PS9 on my way home from work. I got there at 8:24 am and was out by 9:29 am. Not too bad considering the line was almost to Vanderbilt, and the mood on the line was downright giddy with excitement (and it didn't just seem that way because I was sleep deprived).

I have a good feeling about tonight.

I went to PS 9 around 9:30, saw the line, decided to grab some energy food at The Usual, went back and found out I could skip the line if I knew my ED table. I did so and found out that they put a stop to it. Lucky me. I agree with Carnivore, very inspiring lines. I don't recall ever seeing Election Day lines this big or enthusiastic, and I've been voting since '84.

i voted at ps22 in the 37th district, a little before 1pm.

there was a throng of people waiting around in the gym, so i thought there might be a line, but it turns out they were people who weren't sure of their district.

i walked right up to the table, signed the book, jumped in a booth, pulled some levers, checked, double checked, finalized it and then practically SKIPPED back out the door. wheeeeee!

Here is the video I took of the line to get into PS9 at 6:30 this morning:

I voted at PS9 around 5:30p....no line at all. There's still time if you haven't voted!

It's a moot point now, but I went at 6:10 and there was no line whatsoever. Walked in and walked out. I was amazed!

Line at Brooklyn Museum was about an hour and a half at around 10:15.

Wow, that's worse than I expected. I got there at 8:15 and waited 1:45 (and my neighbor who arrived around 7:15 waited a similar amount of time) but I would have guessed the line was more than 15 minutes shorter when I left at 10.

The elderly dude behind me told me he'd never seen it like this, and the sassy (also somewhat elderly) volunteer telling everyone to be patient said "Obama did this to y'all!"