Election Day: Polling locations and voting

I'm outside of a location in Hyde Park right now. It says that the wait time online is about an hour, but the line could be more inside. We just don't know, and of course we're not allowed inside during the time that people are casting their ballots. But we were over at Travis County Clerk's office earlier, and there was no line. The most amount of people I saw was right at 6:30 when people were lining up to get inside at 7. So just a few reminders, if you're coming to the polls, a really good website to check out the wait time. This is votetravis.gov. You can see what locations are open, the wait time. Some of them are less than 20 minutes. Some of them are over an hour. But this year is very historic. We've got a lot of polling locations, the most we've ever had here in Travis County. I spoke to the Travis County clerk and this is what she had to say. Yeah, this is a historic number of poll places for Travis County, 201 poll places. That's more than we had in the last presidential and more than we had in the last midterm as well. So we're really hoping voters in every corner of the community have easy accessibility, can quickly get in, out, find ease of parking. And if all of our Travis County voters distribute themselves effectively across the county, we should be able to keep those lines short. So you have a little bit of a line behind you right now, Libby, but how are they expecting it to look the rest of the day? I think throughout the rest of the day, it's going to pick up more, especially as we get into the lunchtime hour before parents have to pick up their kids from school or even after as well. So a lot of the polling locations are suggesting that, hey, the sooner you come out, the better. You won't wait in line as much. But also there have been some locations that have been reporting delays. And for kind of odd reasons, we've got one report at UT's main polling location that the fire alarm keeps being pulled, yet people still keep waiting in line. So that has kind of delayed their process. Other locations are being, you know, seamless, and some are taking longer than others. But, of course, if you're coming to vote, make sure you've got your proper ID. You can have your passport, a personal license. You can also have your handgun license as a form of ID to vote. Also, if you have a mail-in ballot, the only location that you can drop that off at is the Travis County Clerk's Office. There's only one location per county. That is where Travis County is. So if you're doing that, keep that in mind. But that's what I've got going on. Reporting live out here in Austin, Libby Farrow, Fox 7 Austin News.