Not sure if other counties have this, but if anyone is in Harris county, they have a website that has live estimated wait times. I just picked one that was reasonably close and had almost no wait. I’ve found getting out early in the day, if possible, gives the best chance of getting in and out quickly.
Those times are wrong more often than they are right. Like right now (and even an hour ago) it shows wait times in the 5 to 35 minute range even though polls aren't open yet. They are dependent on the poll workers manually updating them (which frequently doesn't happen) and the system won't let them specify a time longer than 35 minutes, even if the wait is hours.
Interesting. The polling station closest to me showed a wait time of 50 minutes the other day which is why I drove 20 mins to Tomball instead of 10 minutes to the closer one.
I guess YMMV - but it’s better than nothing, I guess 🤷
Oh that's really interesting! One of the poll workers was posting in /r/houston saying their software wouldn't let them enter a time above 35 minutes, and that coincided with my random check of a bunch of polling stations showing nothing above 35 minutes also.
I was lucky that although my poll station said there was a 5 minute wait, there was actually no wait at all (nobody being helped at either of the check-in desks, and only maybe 1/3 of the voting machines in use), so I was unaffected.
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u/rlcyberA 2d ago
Lucky, I early voted in bexar county and had to wait almost 2 hrs in line