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…..
Congrats on voting.
Unfortunately I suspect the Chicago emigrees brought their voting preferences with them, even if such votes would turn NW Indiana into havingthe same policies and results as the place they left – and they won’t understand the connection.
You had a better experience than I did !!!!!!!!!!!!
I live in Indiana, where the states apparatus is somewhat efficient, and if it gets bad enough, the people in charge get fired
You live in Illinois, where the government can’t get anything right, and where they simply don’t care and no one ever gets fired for incompetence.
Can’t wait to leave here !!!!!