That’s 38 minutes door to door, from entering the facility, standing in line, showing my ID, getting my ballot, standing in another (shorter) line, voting, putting my ballot into the counter (who knows if it was counted properly?) and them walking out.
38 minutes. On voting day.
Of course the demographics of the people in line were mostly of European descent , so there as little time wasted, and everyone was polite and decent, which helps a lot.
Now, at 7:30 AM, I would bet the line was significantly longer, (there were more than twice the cars in the parking lot then) but the polling place workers were dong a decent job, and the voters weren’t dawdling at the machines.
The poll workers said the turnout had been fairly heavy so far, more than 40% over the las presidential election. Not sure how much of that is actual interest or if it can be chalked up to population growth.
Still, so far, a decent turnout. I just hope all the people who moved from Chicago to Northwest Indiana didn’t bring their voting preferences with them…..