Small city in Louisiana. A suburb without the “urb”.
I voted second day of early voting, a Saturday, at the registrar’s main office. Went in, gave my ID to a young woman at one of about 6 work stations. She printed a label with my information on it and stuck it to a ruled page in a 3 ring binder. I then signed right next to it. She then handed me a magnetic strip card that appeared to be color coded (my precinct I guess). I then walked to another room where a young man led me to a voting machine consisting of a touch screen similar to a Taco Bell kiosk. He inserted the card, and my ballot came up, at which point he went to help the next voter. I voted on the touch screen, removed the card, dropped it in a basket and then got my “I voted” sticker on the way out (a caricature of a crawfish in a tux dancing a second line). Whole process took about five minutes.
Had I waited until Election Day, I would have reported to a park rec center about three blocks from my house. Give my ID to a poll worker, who reads and spells my name aloud as it’s proofed against a preprinted three ring binder by another worker. I then sign, and enter a booth enclosed by a simple hanging curtain. Ballot is on a large preprinted page with a sheet of plastic over it. You then press your votes (feels like a bubble button under the paper) which lights up an “X” by the name of the candidate or initiative, etc. You then review it all in front of you and hit a “cast” button when ready. Then you just walk out. Probably took about 45 minutes in 2020 because of the line on Election Day.