When Tuesday's ballots are counted, the United States will have elected either its first African-American president, or its oldest first-term president and first female vice president.
June Smith, an iReporter in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, said there was no line when she arrived at her polling place.
"I was surprised," she said.
iReporter Jason Dinant also said there were no lines at his polling place in Syracuse, New York.
But reports like Smith's and Dinant's were uncommon. Most iReporters were said there were long lines and waits as they prepared to cast their ballots.
Indeed, footage from Shoesmith Elementary in Chicago, Illinois -- where Obama voted -- and from Albright United Methodist Church in Phoenix, Arizona -- where McCain voted -- showed plenty of voters in line besides the presidential candidates.
iReporter Lindsey Miller, 23, votes at the same polling place as Obama. She said Secret Service agents were checking names off a list and using metal-detecting wands on some would-be voters as they entered the polling place. The line was around the block at 6 a.m., she said.
"A lot of people were in pajamas. I know I was -- not the time you want to be on national TV," the University of Chicago graduate student said.
iReporter Lynn Linnemeier said it took her about two hours to vote in southwest Atlanta.
"The line wrapped all the way around the front of the building and into the back parking lot," said Linnemeier, whose 9- and 16-year-old granddaughters woke up early to join her at the polls.
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