Here in Arizona there were problems this morning with electronic voting-roll books. Basically poll workers are mostly retirees many of whom aren't tech savvy. The least little hiccup stalls the process for everyone at that voting place. Last week there were problems because the polling places were generic and each voter had to have a complete ballot printed for them on the spot. Bizarrely there were more voting cubicles than printers. The lines today, even with early morning problems, have been shorter than those for early voting last week.
Somewhat over a million ballots, including mine, were mailed to the election board in my county alone. It is also legal to turn in your mail-in ballot on election day at the polling place. But because there is no time to check the signatures on the ballot envelopes today, those ballots get checked and counted after election day. In the last major election at least one state legislature race changed from one person seemingly winning on election night to another winning after all the ballots were finally counted days later.
Voting here is much the same as Shadowkat describes, except that the ballot is physically larger and we connect the head and tail of arrows pointing to the candidate's name rather than fill in circles. The longest time I ever waited to vote was about 90 minutes in Missouri, I think when George H. W. Bush was defeated by Bill Clinton (with help from votes drawn off by Ross Perot). In Arizona ballots are available in English or Spanish whether in person or mail-in.
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Somewhat over a million ballots, including mine, were mailed to the election board in my county alone. It is also legal to turn in your mail-in ballot on election day at the polling place. But because there is no time to check the signatures on the ballot envelopes today, those ballots get checked and counted after election day. In the last major election at least one state legislature race changed from one person seemingly winning on election night to another winning after all the ballots were finally counted days later.
Voting here is much the same as Shadowkat describes, except that the ballot is physically larger and we connect the head and tail of arrows pointing to the candidate's name rather than fill in circles. The longest time I ever waited to vote was about 90 minutes in Missouri, I think when George H. W. Bush was defeated by Bill Clinton (with help from votes drawn off by Ross Perot). In Arizona ballots are available in English or Spanish whether in person or mail-in.