Early voting drawing crowds in several states

Oct. 29, 2012, 5:22 PM EDT

By Will Femia

The weekend saw several states open up for early voting and when I checked our inbox this morning it was full of photos of long, snaking lines. Here is just a sample of some of what we received:

Early voting lines in west Baltimore, Park Heights neighborhood, where over 500 people were constantly streaming in to vote.-While I’m Canadian, and can’t vote, I went with my husband to early voting in Baltimore. Here in Maryland the right to marry is on the ballot, and its outcome affects us directly, and I wanted to at least engage how I could with the voting process, even if I couldn’t vote myself. While there were only five stations in Baltimore (for a city of 600K !) we stopped at the second one and decided to do the wait in line there, in the Park Heights neighborhood, a proud, but challenged neighborhood that struggles under poverty, violence and crime. People were out in DROVES. There were over 500 people in line, and growing all the time. But it moved quickly (props to the voting clerks). And the spirit of folks in line was telling – people applauded – people applauded “first time” voters… “outed” by the clerks, lol, and the general mood was one of anticipation, exci

LGBT FAMILY with children waiting to vote in Vegas. We know of the ramifications of this election on our family.

Early Voting Line in Miami, Florida. 1 hour and 45 minutes from start to finish. October 29, 2012.

Waiting for the polls to open for early voting in Savannah, Ga.

Early Voting Line at 1:00 p.m. in Arlington, TX.-I voted in Southeast Arlington, Texas at about 1:00 p.m. on Friday. The line only took 15-20 minutes to get through and had been pretty steady. The voters were very representative of the diversity in the area around the polling place.

2:20 in line to vote and dozens of people just saw the line and left. The Ballot was two pages (18 inches long) front and back. This was the first day of early voting in Florida, and there were only 4 people working at the polls.

Will Femia

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Early voting drawing crowds in several states

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