It's the first weekend of early voting for a half-dozen sites across Los Angeles County — and polling stations are already packed.
A line of voters wrapped around the block outside of the North Hollywood Regional Library Saturday. A similar line stretched down the street and out of West Los Angeles College in Culver City.
Brenda Duran is with the L.A. County Registrar's Office. She says this doesn't mean crowds will swarm polling places on November 8.
"On Election Day, we do have about 4,000 polling places. And these are just five sites in L.A. County that we opened, so there will be a lot more polling places open on that day," she tells KPCC.
On Sunday morning at 8:31 a.m., David Thibodeau tweeted: "Early voting in North Hollywood is a three hour wait and the line continues to grow - 6 polling booths total inside."
Mike Sanchez, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder, confirmed to the Associated Press that people waited more than two hours during peak times Saturday at voting centers in North Hollywood and Culver City. Sanchez said more than 3,200 people cast their ballots Saturday at five such centers in Los Angeles County.
Roughly 5.2 million people have registered to vote in L.A. County. About 2.3 million vote-by-mail ballots have been sent out countywide.
Long lines at early voting outposts have also been reported at various locations around the county including in North Carolina, Florida, Maryland and Utah.
"A lot of people tend to find that when they can fill out their ballot at home, they can take as much time as they want. And then also it's convenient if they want to just drop it off in the mail on their way to work," Duran says.
Your last day to register to vote by mail is Tuesday, Nov. 1.
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