In New York State, the polls will be open 6AM to 9PM EST.

[hedgehog]

What about where you live? (Be sure and tell us which state.)

[Oceansaway]

1. 6am to 8pm...i think.... (illinois)...n/t

[redstate_democrat]

2. Missouri 6am-7pm Central

[hedgehog]

3. This is wild - potentially Illinois and missouri will be called before NYS closes.

[GarbagemanLB]

4. 24/7 Between now and 7pm election day.

Mail-in voting here in Oregon.

[armed_and_liberal]

5. In Ohio GOP votes on November 5th

Just want to make sure our Republican friends are aware of that

[CrispyQ]

6. Boulder County, Colorado: We have mail in ballots & early voting

On election day the polls are open 7am - 7pm.

If you signed up for mail ballots, you will not be allowed to vote at the polls.

[intheflow]

30. You can vote in person in Colorado if you requested a mail-in ballot.

But you'll have to vote a provisional ballot. So obviously it's still waaaay better to use your mail-in ballot. Which you can also drop off in person at any early voting location (my preference, just in case I have a Freeper postal employee for a mailman).

Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for my mail-in ballot to arrive in the mail...

[brendan120678]

7. Connecticut: 6am to 8pm

And I'll be glued to my television all evening!
Hopefully, however, we'll know that Obama is the winner by 11pm eastern time. I can't stay up all night!

[bigwillq]

26. CT!

:bounce:

[KamaAina]

8. Hawai'i: 7 AM to 6 PM HST

by then that'll be only five hours behind, so you East Coasters will only have to stay up 'til 11 to find out the results of the taut contest in this crucial battleground state. :sarcasm:

6 may seem a little early, but Election Day is a state holiday, so state and county workers, plus those at nonprofits such as mine that follow the state calendar, have the whole day off. Also, other workers are allowed two hours off work by law in order to vote. Despite all this, we have gone in a couple of decades from among the highest turnouts to rock bottom. :eyes:

[malik flavors]

9. I can't believe NY still doesn't have early voting. I'm gonna have to stand in a long cold line.

[Renew Deal]

10. You can vote early in NY

All you have to do is walk into a county BoE and ask for an absentee ballot. You can also mail in an Absentee ballot application and they will mail you a ballot.

http://www.elections.state.ny.us/Voting.html#AbsenteeVoting

[Cha]

11. Thanks..someone who is just moving from

New York to Minnesota at this crucial time was wondering how to get an absentee ballot in New York.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

19. Self-delete.

[MarjorieG]

12. NYS just purged 1.6 million voters under HAVA mandate, without adequate time/protocol to correct.

Everyone must prepare for long waits. Absentee ballots must get applied to first count, provisionals get contested and sometimes thrown out.

[Renew Deal]

14. That's a bullshit issue.

I saw that item yesterday. I live in NY and look at the voter book every election. The people that are moved to inactive have usually moved or died. It's actually correct. We don't have the problems here that other states have. We still haven't bought new voting machines (thank God).

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

20. I love our system and that we still have the levers. There is absolutely no reason to

go to machines. To assist with the disabled voting, they can do it manually on paper or perhaps one machine at voting places for them. Paper receipt required.

[Curtland1015]

23. Me too. We have the old school lever machines and they work great.

[MarjorieG]

27. Not a BS issue. HAVA has mandated central databases, and combining them produced a purge..

We're calling it disenfranchisement by typo, when motor vehicle, social security info doesn't match with the voting registration.

We have lever this year, but on court order, we have to switch to something unreliable, uncertified, unless we can have our state law not mandate the demise of levers. Then we can hold off until we get reliability.

Here's NYVV blog on the purge and other issues about our machines:
http://www.nyvv.org/boblog/2008/10/21/over-1500000-nys-voters-purged

[IndianaJones]

13. 6 to 6 CST Indiana. nt.

[RollWithIt]

15. 7AM to 7PM in Florida.... Western Panhandle closes at 8PM EST.... nt

[Bill McBlueState]

16. Here's a national listing

Poll closing times in each state

[Bill McBlueState]

17. Massachusetts

Opening time varies by town; it can be as early as 5:45 AM. Statewide closing time is 8 PM EST.

(Reminds me, I had forgotten whether we'll still be on daylight time by November 4. We won't; we fall back on Sunday 11/2.)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

18. NY and I'll be there at about 9AM. Last time around I had a 10 minute waiting time.

It will be interested to see if there will be more people there this time around.

[hedgehog]

21. How many people in your precinct? Mine only has about 200, but we're in a rural area.

Oddly enough, my parents in Amherst claim that they only have about 200 in their precinct, too.

10 minutes is the most I've ever had to wait.

[whistler162]

22. New York state(Onondaga county)

so the same hours as OP.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

24. Frankly I don't know how many are in my precinct, but I'm a very large town of about 50,000 in

Westchester Co. I have never had to wait longer than I did in 2004. It's all so efficient. All they need to do is to compare one's signature to the book...none of the ridiculous ID nonsense that other states are now requiring. I just can't comprehend the hours waiting time that is reported in different places in the country.

[hedgehog]

25. I was asking about that the other day. The use of the book seems standard across NYS,

which means I sign the book in front of a poll worker who then compares it to the facsimile from my registration card and a dozen or so previous signatures from other elections! Usually several of the poll workers know me by name and face anyways!

Apparently, at least for early voting, there is a central computer that ticks off the names as people vote. So you go into a convenient voting place, not necessarily your precinct, present ID to a stranger, have someone check to see if you've voted yet, and then you vote. It may increase turnout (YEA!) but I can see where it makes some people suspicious. You could hack the computer to let people vote several times or to kick them off the rolls entirely.

[NYC Liberal]

28. I'm getting to my polling place as close to 6AM as I can

I'm in the city (Manhattan) and I don't know what turnout will be like. And I want to go before work.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

29. When I lived in Manhattan and Queens eons ago, it was alway pretty quick too. The system is very

efficient.