Not trying to start a political thread and if it goes that way please kill it (and don't make me have to work on or become part of the patio!).
How incompetent are your election officials? I'm using time it took to vote as the competency test.
I arrived at my polling place at 4:05 PM and walked out after voting at 9:02 PM. Almost 5 F'in hours to cast my vote! Did they not expect that people would vote? Was it a surprise that there was an election?
There were varying number of functional voting machines during my wait (based on questioning friends & acquaintances exiting the polling location) between 2 and 5. Last Presidential election, there were 10 voting machines at this same polling station.
Based on a lunchtime visit to my local newspaper's website, I expected this and went somewhat prepared. Apparently this was a large scale issue in the county that I live in. The newspaper indicated that the target was to have 1 voting machine per 250 voters. My polling station serves 4000+ registered voters and turnout was over 70% last Presidential election. 5 or fewer functional machines for that number of voters is not meeting the target.
/rant
Janel (the voter in the house, apparently immigration reform hasn't gone so far as to let Canadians vote in the US) voted in no time flat this morning. She filled out her mail-in ballot last night and dropped it off this morning. In and out.
Walked in, my neighbor was handling my ward, (but in very professional form) asked for our Voter cards, and (since it was our first time voting in that polling place) asked us for our IDs.
There was no one else there, we walked in, voted, and we were out in 5 minutes.
PHeller
UltraDork
11/6/12 11:00 p.m.
5 minutes. Even got some soup from the bake sale the local school was doing.
SVreX
MegaDork
11/6/12 11:02 p.m.
2-3 minutes. They were very competent.
It took me much longer to read the ballot initiatives then for them to get me in and out.
Maybe that says something about my reading comprehension. 
bluej
Dork
11/6/12 11:15 p.m.
Was in and out in about 15 mins, not rushing, right before polling closed. Most of my coworkers went real early today and it took between 2-4 hrs.
Grizz
Dork
11/6/12 11:19 p.m.
Maybe 20 minutes or so? One of the registration machines was berkeleying up so it was taking them longer than it should have.
15 minutes, tops. The polls were very busy but everything went smoothly.
In Volusia County, FL (GRM HQ's) About an hour wait then 30 minutes to fill it out and wait in line to stick it in the scanner.
Interestingly enough at 98% reporting with just under 200,000 ppl voting puts the presidential candidates within 1,000 votes of each other.
At 10am-ish I went. I was number 144 for the day. I went back with my wife at 4:45 and she was #240-ish. In both our cases, it took longer to actually read/vote than it did to be processed through.
And, this was in Ohio.
10 minutes and I let a deaf elderly lady ahead of me.
10:30a-3:30p. . . . WTMcF 
5 minutes, it took me longer to drive to the polling station since they moved it across town since last time.
Wham bam thank you ma'am.
Small town, I went a bit before 7am and there were several just finishing up ahead of me. We don't have these new-fangled "voting machines" you people speak of(yeah, I said "you people" 
). Just pen-on-paper and a scantron to read it in. It took longer to make a couple decisions than the actual process.
wait you had to show "voter cards" and id as a new voter in that area? My two sons just moved back home, one from Fl and the other from Vegas, neither were ever registered here in NY and both just walked in, gave them their names and address, signed and voted. No Id, no voter registration cards, nothing.....
20 minutes if you include the 5 minutes of waiting for them to open the door.
I showed voter card and ID. Wife forgot her voter card and only showed ID, but they had a computer and just had to glance to see that she was registered. I didnt have to sign anything, just fill out the ballot.
Minus the 10 min one way walk I took, I waiting 5 min for a spot at one of three places to open to sit down and vote.
I got there 40 min before the polls opened and there were 200+ people in line. Total time, 1.5 hours. They were hustling them through 6 machines at pretty good pace. The wife went about 10 am and it took her about an hour.
About 1/2 hour- but we go there at a good time. Probably double that as we left. It was pretty clear that we were limited by individual polling booths, and that it was taking time to fill the ballot out.
One of the things I like about living in a tiny podunk town. The voting place was my son's elementry school. I showed up at 6:15pm and walked out at 6:17pm. There were more election officials there than voters.
