So I went to my polling place early today, around 7:30am.
And I saw something that I've never seen before.
There was a line. Where there never was a line!
Not a very long line by some standards, but a line nevertheless. I'd guess about 40 to 50 people were ahead of me.
I'd have done better by going a bit later, as when I left about 20 minutes later, there were only about 20 people behind me.
There was a potential problem with the voting procedure, however.
When you arrive, you are supposed to sign in and let the voting officials verify your registration. Then you get in line.
Normally there's no problem with this because typically there are only about four or five people (at most) waiting to vote. But today the line snaked around into another room, so there was no way for the voting officials to keep track of everyone.
It would have been possible for someone to sneak into the line without signing in.
Now the folks in line were doing their own vetting ("Did you sign in?") so I suspect it would be difficult for a significant number of people to vote without signing in.
But not impossible.
