The longest lines I've ever witnessed at my polling place were already forming as of 7:30 a.m. this morning, when I got there.
It took 40 minutes in line to reach the precinct station, and about 5-10 minutes to vote for all the offices and measures on seven long paper ballots. (In San Francisco, we mark our ballots with pens; we do not use electronic voting machines.)
The guide to the ballot was an inch thick, at least.
After you're done, you feed you ballot sheets into a tally machine, take your receipts, and get a sticker.
Wherever you are, and whatever candidates or issues you support or oppose, exercise your franchise! It's a citizen's solemn right -- and duty.
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