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Tuesday, November 05, 2024

Feel Free To Report Your Experience at the Polls Here

Polls will be open from 7 am until 8 pm today. If you are standing in line by 8 pm, you must be permitted to vote. Many of us have already voted via mail-in ballots or through Ballot by Demand at the courthouse. But many of you prefer to vote at your local precinct. Please feel free to share your experience. 

I'd be interested in your polling place, turnout and whether you experienced any problems. 

39 comments:

Anonymous said...

Long line at my polling place, as well as the one across the street. Too bad all elections aren’t seen as important (especially school board, which controls a homeowner’s purse strings.)

Anonymous said...

Lower Saucon Township Municipal Building. Arrived at 6:40AM. Number 19 in line. Poll opened promptly at 7:00AM.

At 7:00AM opening, about 100 in line waiting to vote. Finished my voting at 7:20 AM. So, line moving at about 1 minute per voter. Translation - people just arriving at 7:20AM would likely have to wait nearly 1 1/2 hours to vote. People still trickling in at a steady rate from parking lot.

Overall, smooth and orderly operation. But, was heaviest turnout I can remember for that time period in over 30 years voting there. Interestingly, first time I recall seeing no candidate volunteers standing outside advertising their political party.

Anonymous said...

I arrived to vote at the Forks Township Community Center @ 0555 hours. There were three people ahead of me at that time. At 0700 hours the line had extended some several hundred feet around the parking lot in the direction of the athletic fields. A rough guess and consensus at a head count by those of us near the front of the line, at the time we entered the building, was in the neighborhood of three hundred people. Upon entering the gymnasium one could see there were four voting machines, I think four is inadequate given the growing crowd outside. There were four persons who assisted with getting people prepared to vote via the signature card. The voting process went smoothly keeping in mind I was one of the first into the building. If there was any problem with the process at the time I was there it would have been the parking situation. Keeping in mind that this day only happens once every four years several of us witnessed many vehicles enter the parking lot, circle it and drive out for lack of spaces. It can't be determined by this action if these people went home with the intention of returning at a later time or if they sought to park elsewhere and walk. The parking lot at the Forks community center is grossly inadequate for this type of event. It appeared that many potential voters used a mall parking lot near the community center albeit a decent walk from the front door the community center. Personally I was concerned about drivers not finding adequate parking. I think a solution would have been to permit potential voters to utilize the athletic fields for parking. I can only speak for myself when saying this but if I were to drive to a location with the intention of voting and at that location I couldn't find parking, leaving would be "the" option and I probably wouldn't return. My intention is not to criticize anyone or any organization this was only my observation, happy voting day everyone.

Anonymous said...

heavy turnout in lockridge. I was 35 at 7:15. I thought it went about as smooth as it could be.

Anonymous said...

Absolutely great turn out all over the area

Anonymous said...

8:30 a.m. at Ag Hall in Allentown. Only 3 ahead of me. Orderly and friendly. Agree with 7:42 am -- it's sad that we'll see a fraction of these people back for local elections and primaries.

Anonymous said...

Huge lines at 3 different poll places I witnessed. Too big too rig!

Anonymous said...

Huge line at Farmersville Elementary, Bethlehem Township. Will go back this evening.

Anonymous said...

Lots of people arriving at Lehigh Govt center but are registered elsewhere. If you check your registration online, the first address that comes up is the county board of elections, and people are coming here since that's the first address they see.

Other than that, pretty smooth.

Anonymous said...

Saw several puking after they voted.

Anonymous said...

We vote at Bethlehem 13, ward 4, Crosspoint Church. Seemed very busy until I learned that the building now includes ward 1, so those folks were voting for the first time in the polling place. Everything went smoothly. No signs allowed outside and only one person outside watching.

Anonymous said...

Saw some dumb voters voting for Loser Trump

Anonymous said...

Huge problems being reported in Cambria and Bedford counties. So far so good here in Northampton

Anonymous said...

Democrats always show their class

Anonymous said...

Part of issue there was Mike Johnson on site engaging in old fashioned retail politics with Ryan MacKenzie.

Anonymous said...

Sources tell People are turning out in great numbers to get rid of the democrats who has caused such pain to the American people.

Butch said...

Waited 1.5 hours in eastern NorCo. No problems other than parking.

7:42 - You are correct. Your school board's votes hit your bank account almost immediately and never get rolled back, refunded, or discounted.

Anonymous said...

Yes discuss class as your candidate enjoys a microphone

Anonymous said...

Whitehall -Coplay schools are one of the worse in the state Taxes go up every year while the spend on all the great buildings they build the people on the board spend money because it is our money they could care less. Seniors pay taxes until the day they die. Also mention the results or not that good.

Anonymous said...

A lot of Trump people in line Why not support Harris She is such an articulate person.

Anonymous said...

East Allen great experience as always about an hour. Not long line

Anonymous said...

How embarrassing for PA once again

Anonymous said...

West side precinct in Bethlehem (Lehigh) at about 40 percent of total as of 1:30. Very smooth process so far. Lines minimal all day. Seems Lehigh voters have it easier based on earlier comments.

Anonymous said...

My experience is that it seems like none of the Trump voters I've seen at any polling place appear to have jobs of any kind

Anonymous said...

Walked right in at East Hills and it took me longer to muster the courage to vote for Harris (I was going to throw away my vote) than it took me to actually get into the booth. I am so sad that Harris and Trump are as good as we can get. Shame on America.

Anonymous said...

Lower Milford - Lehigh County 2 hour wait to vote starting around 10:15. Wait due to voter response and a malfunctioning check in tablet which the county replaced within 1 hour of notification. An official on site informed waiting voters of the malfunction as the reason for the delay.

Anonymous said...

Your sources? Faux 'News'? The very same network who was fined $787 million for spreading election lies four years ago?

Anonymous said...

Waited about 30 minutes or so in Lower Nazareth mid afternoon, but line was longer on the way out. My slip said I was 1150, woman said our precinct had 3500 registered, so thats about 32% turnout with another 5-6 hours left.

Anonymous said...

Wind Gap line is about 2 and a half hours as of 5 o clock

Anonymous said...

You're An ........ How are you there then?

Anonymous said...

Sorry for your choice

Anonymous said...

2 hours to vote at in Bushkill. Heavy turnout.

Anonymous said...

Lehigh's paper ballots allow more voters to vote in the same time period compared to the touch screen machines. That line at Banana Factory is wild.

Anonymous said...

Harris is a LOT worse

Anonymous said...

President Harris ---USA will become third world nation in no time

Anonymous said...

Florida closed at 7 and already has 75% of their votes counted at 7:45. PA is a dirty crooked national embarrassment.

Anonymous said...

Florida 80% counted here in PA we will be waiting forever. WTF.

Anonymous said...

@12:20 it's 'couldn't' care less genius

Anonymous said...

Enjoy the suck.