Comments about ‘Polls swamped by heavy turnout’

I would have loved to only stand in line for 30 minutes or so. My wait to vote in Springville was two hours. Luckily, I got on line to see where I should vote before leaving home.

Due to the long line I didn't get to vote. I waited in line for a half hour to only move twenty feet. Then it was time for me to pick up my kids. Judging by the line it would have been hours till I got to vote. I tried to go back later but by then the line had grown until I quite possibly might have been waiting in line till morning (It was at least a 5 hour wait to vote by then). They only had two pooling locations for all of Payson, and only two machines at where I was to vote.

I was cheated out of getting to vote by the incompetent planning.

I was also unable to vote because of the line. My husband and I waited until the end of the day, when the line was at least one and one half hours long. We could not leave our children alone for that long, so we had to go home. In front of us, the woman in line had a husband at home who was unable to vote, because he was caring for the children at home. She could have voted in a half hour block earlier in the day, but the line was an hour long then.

I didn't get to vote even after spending a half hour in the line... i had to go back to work.

Someone should be fired for making the decision to cut back on polling places. How much money did they cost the tax payers in time, lost wages, and gas driving from polling place to polling place... it doesn't take much to equal over $50k when you're dealing with thousands of people.

WHAT IN THE WORLD WERE OUR COUNTY PEOPLE THINKING? POOR PLANNING ,PEOPLE, SORRY BUT YOU REALY BLEW IT. PAYSON WAS A MESS

I waited about 40 minutes at the Layton Conference Center. By then, I was less than half way through the line just to get my name checked on the computer, not to mention waiting longer for a ballot and voting. I did not get to vote because I had another committment so I wasted 40 minutes in line.

I waited in Orem for at least an hour and half to vote. I had to laugh when I read this line: "The Utah County Commission approved the decision, which saved the county about $50,000. The election cost about $300,000.". How much money did the local economy lose because people who would normally be out shopping in stores and malls were stuck waiting in a polling line for over an hour? How much money was lost because people took time off work to go vote and spent over an hour waiting in line? Voter turnout was probably double that of last November's state & local election, yet polling places weren't consolidated then...

Someone should run for Utah County Clerk. Simply having a platform of not consolidating polling places would easily win the election.

In Provo, it was definetly the longest line I've seen for anything in a while. Entire length of the elementary school. It made me proud though, that so many people were out there voting. I knew alot of the people in line too so it was like a neighborhood social....sort of. I'm just glad they recognized and admitted their mistake in cutting down the polling locations!!!