Voting in Birmingham

The voting process has been hectic today at St. Mark United Methodist Church in Birmingham. Lines have been long and the parking lot has been filled all day. Around 1,500 people had submitted their ballots at 11 a.m.
It had been like that all day said Jane Brown, one of the directors.
The lines were separated into four groups by letter of last name. The wait for many people was about twenty minutes, but if your last name was in the L through R range the wait was about three or four times that. "I finally made it," one lady said as she got her ballot.
There were four secret ballot boxes lined up in the middle of the emptied out room and also four or five tables where people could sit and fill out their ballots with a cover sheet.
Their was confusion amongst some of the voters and the directors were having to answer several questions. Many people waited in the long, winding L through R line not knowing that they could go on past if they did not fall into that category. There were men directing traffic in the parking lot to control the constant traffic flow.
There did not seem to be much frustration though and voters were very friendly. One lady even joked in the parking lot, "Did you get the deed done?"