Florida – Miami
Alisea Mazeain from Miami, Florida said, “This is the 3rd Presidential election I’ve been able to vote in. Every election we’re told it’s the most important, but I believe this year is the most important based on candidate running. I know a lot of people, like my brother and uncle who are not voting this year, but I’m voting because I want my voice to be heard.”

Missouri – St. Louis – Report From the Longest Line in the Country!
ACORN Election Protection staffer Dan Syzmon was told by the Eastern Missouri Director of the ACLU that the line at the polling station at the Velda Village City Hall in north St. Louis County is the longest line in the nation. When Dan showed up at 11 to check-in he was told by one man that he had been waiting since 6:50 in the morning. The line is now a seven hour wait!

There are 1100 voters registered at the polling place, but the elections officials were only able to process 37 voters an hour. Dan estimates that there about 300 people waiting in line and that none of them are interested in leaving. Obama comfort teams have shown up to distribute water and the local Fire Department fired up the grills and started making hot dogs for everyone stranded in line.

Voting is going a bit faster now than in the morning because a local judge has agreed to allow individual voters waive their privacy rights and therefore fill out ballots on the walls, on their legs, anywhere, in addition to the three touch-screen voting machines.

Everyone is voting in a small 15x30 room in groups of about 10 people each. Missouri law states that anyone in line by 7PM gets to vote. Dan has been gathering contact information in case of legal action and to take over an upcoming County Board meeting (November 18) and demand better polling locations in the future.