Please comment on the precinct / voting experience you had today.
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Photos from Precincts
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| 11:30am - Someone fainted at Centennial Middle School while waiting on line. Was just told that a man waiting in line here at 8 am, finally left at 12. He waited for 4 hours to vote. |
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| 10:15 am: Voting at Centennial Middle School in Cutler Bay. People in line at 6:30a.m. got done at 10. |
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| Bank United Center at University of Miami. Students wait for polls to open before dawn. |
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| North Miami, Keystone Point Tot Lot: About 2 1/2 hour wait at 11 am |
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| Keystone Point North Miami, view around the corner. |
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| Coral Gables Youth Center at 9a.m. |
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| Washington Community Center, North Miami Beach at 11:30 am - Voters shield eyes from sun. |
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| Washington Park Community Center - North Miami Beach 11:30am |
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| Coral Gables Fire Station, 2 hours at 11:55pm |
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| Simpson Park, Brickell, around noon. |
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Gina Mondi waited 3 hours in the hot sun with her 3 children ages 3, 10 and 10 months to vote at the Washington Park community center precinct. There is no public school today so mothers have had to bring their children.
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| Voting might be leveling off. This is polling place 603 in Coral Gables at 1pm, 1,609 are in this precinct. |
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| Aventura City Hall at 3pm. |
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| Palmetto Bay around 4pm. |
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| Line growing at Centennial Middle School in Cutler Bay. Here it is at 6:30pm., wrapping around back of building. |
Voting November 6th in Miami Dade County Florida.
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Coral Gables 116: backed up more than an hour. Long line. Scanner jamming. Too few voting stations.
West Kendall-Country Walk (Jorge Mas Canosa School): Was 4th in line at 5:30am. By 7am line was 50 people deep. Was done voting by 7:15am. About 30 or so people when I left.
Miami Lakes precinct 352...250 people in line at 7:30. Slow moving line. Similar reports around town. This is going to be a long day.
Facebook chatter about 500 in line at the Homestead stadium; confirmed hour and a half wait at the Homestead Community Center for those in line by 7.
9:15 a.m. update: Lazy government workers found at all polling locations.
Will the directors, past and present, of US Century Bank be going to prison?
To the US Century post: I can only hope so..............
I'll take a drive around polls in my hood which is pretty much Romney/GOP on the west and Obama/Dem to the East. They should be interesting where the "precincts collide"!
At Silver Bluff Elementary and the North Dade Regional Library, moronic poll workers were taking people in alphabetical order rather than first come, first serve.
Brickell Precinct #995 I believe...
3.5 hour waits for those that arrived at 7am. Plenty of voting booths, yet only half of them (at most) are filled at one time. 3 workers screening people in and then voters are sent to one table to receive their ballot. This is the choke point. From the time a voter gets to the first table of three to when they receive their voting slips at the second table is 20 min. That is simply too much time for a line of 200+.
Pinecrest area. Received absentee ballot almost a week after the request. Mailed it on Sunday and there is still no verification that it was received.
Long wait but orderly at Eden isles.
Person above, I would go to the polling place or call elections immediately. Here is what the Miami Herald says you should do:
If I requested an absentee ballot and have yet to receive it, or if it has yet to arrive at the elections department, can I still vote in person?
Yes, but there’s fine print. Voters will be allowed to vote in person if poll workers confirm that the elections department has not received their absentee ballot. The absentee ballot will be canceled. If the elections department cannot determine whether it has received the voter’s absentee ballot, the voter may be asked to cast a provisional ballot.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/05/v-fullstory/3082656/got-questions-about-voting-in.html#storylink=cpy
Perhaps a better use of county money would be better training and hiring of poll workers.
I am on line in Keystone Point. I have been on line for one and a half hours and I am estimating I have about another 45 minutes to wait.
I have never seen lines this long on election day since early voting was started.
Washington park, 152 and 15 Ct- 200 people, mostly African American, a three hour wait steady since 7 am, in the hot sun. Elderly, small children waiting with parents. No access to water or bathrooms inside community they say because of security. Called Gimenez office to ask for water delivery. Put me on hold. Called back, told me to call Alina Hudak. LOL.
St. Timothy's Lutheran Cutler Bay no line. Centennial Middle School is now at 1:30 to 2 hour wait.
A three hour wait for 200 people in hot sun Washington park, 15290 NE 15 Ct. Since 7 am today.
No access to precinct water fountain. The Least Gimenez could do is have Miami fade county deliver water bottles to people waiting in hot sun. There's no school today so small children have to wait in hot sun with their parents,too. People are giving up and leaving.
This is what voter suppression looks like in Miami.
Gables Fire Station: 8 booths. One scanner working. Hour to hour and half.
30 to 45 minutes at West Kendall Library and Village Green Library.
PLEASE POST TIMES YOUR ARE REPORTING YOUR NEWS. 11:26 AM
My friend was in line at 6 30 at Country Walk and it took nearly 5 hours. The Homestead Community Center is now a "walk right in' time frame.
At 11:45 Coral Gables Fire Station is 1 1/2 hours.
South Dade Government center has about 40 people outside and the rest are inside in a holding room. It is 11:45. There is not outside line at Coral Reef but about 20 inside are waiting.
This is what happens when 70% of the vote turns out.
The county should have been well prepared since they had a lot history and resources to work with.
In deep south dade, from SW 232 St. to SW 344 St., west of US 1, all precincts look steady, no long lines in any of the precincts, very smooth at this end of the world.
Took a drive around 11 AM to Noon.
They look nothing like the photo's you've posted in North Dade.
This IS NOT just North Dade buddy unless Cutler Bay and Coral Gables have moved.
Palmetto Bay Town Center the line is horrendous. Very long. The South Dade Government Center is OK. Centennial in Cutler Bay is now about 1 1/2 hours.
Report 12:30
Precinct 757 at Country Walk has about a 3 hour wait time. 12:36pm
Basing it on others years, I would have to say that the LONG BALLOT is the culprit unless it turns out we got 90% voting here.
Added to the long ballot and a potential 90%, is poor planning by the county. They knew the ballot was very long from the beginning. And they knew at least 70% would turnout. The Miami Herald reported broken scan machines. They should have factored that in from the beginning.
1:10 p.m.(Broward) In Broward, my online absentee voter status states only that my ballot was sent to me. There is no indication online that it was received at headquarters.
With no confirmation, I went down to my precinct to vote. At 12:15 p.m., the wait was less than 5 minutes. The clerk there showed me a computer screen that said I had already voted. She said (unconvincingly) that it meant my absentee ballot was received at headquarters
Because I was still cynical of the idiots in the Broward Elections Department, I called them by phone(954-357-7050) to verify that they received my ballot. After a 20 minute wait, the staff person at Broward Elections was able to confirm that my ballot was received.
I asked why my online status does not reflect that. She said that updating the status of absentee voters is a time-consuming process and the one person who does those updates is far behind.
P.S. It was reported today that 700 absentee ballots were rejected in Broward because of missing signatures on the envelope.
CNN is showing live the long lines in Miami Dade County. They showed the West Sunset Drive Fire Station with about a four hour wait time, and the firefighters were working on one woman who was in line who fainted.
An Obama canvasser knocked on my door this morning at about 9:30 a.m. to remind me to vote. My initial thought was to give him a kick in the rear end for supporting Obama.
Instead, I told him that I completely forgot about election day and I appreciated the reminder. I then told him Obama's failed economy cost me my job and I would be voting for Romney to fix Obama's mess. I smiled as he walked away dejected.
Requested absentee ballots for all family members.
Received them the next day. Filled them out and mailed them that evening.
Four days later: confirmation that all ballots were received.
Smooth and efficient process!
Voted at the South Dade Govt. Center wearing my "Blacks for Romney" shirt. Lady in front of me said she had seen several young men wearing same shirt. At Noon, about a 20 minute wait.
Anyone injured by long lines should sue County mayor and gov Scott. This is criminal negligence.
1:30 expected wait in sun 1-2 hours, 60 people now in line at Washington Park Community Center North Miami Beach.
Your smooth and efficient process...Absentee ballots are being disqualified for no signatures. People have to follow directions too. Some people just prefer to vote in person. What is wrong with that?
5th Street Fire Station in Hialeah (around the corner from City Hall) 500 people have voted as of 2pm. There are 20 people on line now at 2:20
Took Russ Baker's "Bush Dynasty: Family of Secrets" to read in the line while waiting to vote.
Precinct 810 in Palmetto Bay is down to 20 minute wait at 2:40pm. Go vote now!
The next big rush comes around 5:00 pm when people get off from work. Hopefully a lot of the people now in line would have cleared out for the big push.
3:15 Aventura precinct at City Hall 40 Minute wait.
Gwen Margolis Center North Miami 5 minute wait at 4 pm. This morning it was between 2 and 3 hours.
North Trail Park, 3 hr and 45 min wait. Started at 12:00
4:30 - Estates of Ft. Laud Clubhouse in Dania Beach - No waiting.
From what I'm hearing within the City of Homestead there is an approximate 3 hour wait at the Villages of Homestead Clubhouse & Waterstone is packed. Apparently there have been problems all day at the Stadium (I'm assuming the one at SW 312th & US1). Some waited four or more hours there. Keys Gate, some waited four or more hours. I'd venture to guess from what I can remember these precincts are very heavily democratic.
Redland precincts little if no wait right now. I'm sure the Ag Center will pick up around 5:30 like in 2010 along with a few of the larger precincts there, but none of them have been problems. One complaint about the Fruit & Spice park, though don't know what happened.
This is as of 4:45 today.
Douglas Park Community House off 37th Avenue about 60 people were waiting outside at 4:40pm
The Miami Herald is reporting UTD Towers was a mess all day with 4-6 hour wait times. Even the Republican lawyer assigned there is complaining.
Plymouth Congregational Church in south Coconut Grove. No line. Walked through the door at 3:30 this afternoon. Walked out the door at 3:45. Very friendly staff. Very efficient mechanics. Voted on every item. Almost effortless.
Of course Homestead can't run an election!!
I am the Broward voter who wrote about my absentee experience at 1:10 p.m. The Broward Elections site is now reporting online that they received my absentee ballot. That's great news!
They are saying I returned it on Nov. 4th, but that's a Sunday (which has no mail delivery) so it must be the date they processed it. Regardless, I am a happy camper.
P.S. I love living in a battleground state where it feels like my vote for president makes a difference!
STAY IN THE LINE! IF people tell you to get out of the line ignore them. They must let you vote if you are in line by 7:00pm.
Still voting in Homestead, long line. 8:30 pm
How do we know these "scanners" are really counting our votes? We each should have received a receipt from the machine that corresponded to our ballot number, so we could double check (if we wanted to) at the Elections Dept. that our votes were really counted properly.
I don't like this new system. There's nothing that proves that your vote was counted. For all we know, we could be feeding our votes into a machine that is not counting them.
CNN just said Miami-Dade results won't be available until the morning. We are a national joke.
Precinct 757 in Country Walk yesterday. Got in line at 10:30 AM left at.....4:30 PM. 6 Hours. Yes 6 Hours.
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