This bodes ill for election day. Wait times as high as six hours, and most about four hours. From Election Wait Times at 1:09 pm today:
|
Location |
Wait Time |
Last Updated |
|
Aventura Government Center |
3:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
City of Miami – City Hall |
3:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
Coral Gables Library |
4:30 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
Coral Reef Library |
5:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
Elections Dept. (SOE Main Office) |
6:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
Florida City – City Hall |
5:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
John F Kennedy Library |
4:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
Kendall Branch Library |
4:30 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
Lemon City Library |
3:30 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
Miami Beach City Hall |
4:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
Miami Lakes Public Library |
3:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
Model City Library (Caleb Center) |
5:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
North Dade Regional Library |
5:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
North Miami Public Library |
4:30 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
North Shore Branch Library |
3:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
South Dade Regional Library |
5:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
Elections Dept. (Stephen P. Clark Center) |
4:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
West Kendall Regional Library |
4:30 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
West Dade Regional Library |
4:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
West Flagler Branch Library |
4:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
At Coral Gables library this morning, the line went 3/4 of the way around the very long block. I bet it’s longer now.
UPDATE: the 2:08 results below the fold. Note that now the longest wait time is ‘only’ five and a half hours … but the shortest wait time is up to three hours, and there’s precious little of that.
|
Location |
Wait Time |
Last Updated |
|
Aventura Government Center |
5:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
City of Miami – City Hall |
3:30 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
Coral Gables Library |
4:45 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
Coral Reef Library |
4:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
Elections Dept. (SOE Main Office) |
4:45 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
Florida City – City Hall |
5:30 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
John F Kennedy Library |
4:30 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
Kendall Branch Library |
3:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
Lemon City Library |
4:30 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
Miami Beach City Hall |
3:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
Miami Lakes Public Library |
5:30 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
Model City Library (Caleb Center) |
5:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
North Dade Regional Library |
4:30 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
North Miami Public Library |
4:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
North Shore Branch Library |
4:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
South Dade Regional Library |
5:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
Elections Dept. (Stephen P. Clark Center) |
4:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
West Kendall Regional Library |
5:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
West Dade Regional Library |
5:00 |
Nov 03 2012 |
|
West Flagler Branch Library |
4:30 |
Nov 03 2012 |
That’s amazing. I vote in most elections, and have voted in Boise, ID, Albany NY, New York City, and 4 different polling locations in Philadelphia during the time I lived there, and I have waited more than 30 minutes exactly once- in Harlem in NY City in 2008. (I voted by mail in Colorado this year.) Is this incompetence or evilness? It’s surely one or the other.
I don’t think it is either. I suspect that lines on Tuesday will be considerably shorter. There are, after all, only a fraction of the total polling stations open for early voting.
What is either “incompetence or evilness” is what happened yesterday. Early voting had been announced to end on Saturday. Yesterday, Sunday, without prior announcement, the local department of elections opened ONE polling station in Doral (a local Miami-Dade community). Apparently, Doral is a Republican stronghold. Joe Garcia, a Democrat running for Congress in that area, flipped out at the obvious unfairness of this move. He sent out a call to action among his supporters asking that everyone call the County and demand that either polling stations Countywide be opened or that the Doral polling station be closed.
The Miami-Herald covered the Doral polling center fiasco, but completely missed the story. http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/04/3081614/florida-democratic-party-files.html