University students are no strangers to long lines.
But if they wait too long today, they may find themselves at the end of an 800-person line to vote.
Students have traditionally flooded campus polling sites to cast their votes. On Election Day '92, the Michigan Union polling site was extremely crowded.
"Maybe there's just a hell of a lot of interest this year," election official Marshall Franke told The Michigan Daily in 1992. "All I know is, this year is a nightmare compared to other years."
At 5:45 p.m. on that year's election day, nearly 900 people were still in line to vote at the Union polling site. About 800 had already voted there earlier in the day.
Those voters were part of Michigan's highest voter turnout rate ever - 66 percent.
Historically, University students have a high voter turnout, compared to the rest of their age cohort.
John Kingdon, a University political science professor, said that generally, younger voters exhibit the worst voter turnout.
"They're not as politically involved and they're hard to mobilize," Kingdon said.
Historically, the majority of students on campus have voted for Democratic candidates.
The student turnout is often the highest for presidential elections. In 1992, exit polling conducted by the Daily found that students overwhelmingly supported then-Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton. Clinton drew 64 percent of the student vote, compared to the 25 percent taken by then-President Bush. Only 11 percent of students said they voted for independent candidate Ross Perot.
Clinton received 44 percent of the vote nationally and 48 percent of the vote in Michigan. He was the first Democrat to carry the state since Lyndon Johnson in 1968.
In 1994, Daily exit polls indicated that students strongly supported Democratic candidates, unlike most of the rest of the nation and the state.
According to exit polls, 61 percent of students voted for Howard Wolpe, the Democratic nominee for governor. Only 38 percent voted for incumbent Gov. John Engler. Engler won the election by large margin in the rest of the state.
The majority of students, 73 percent, also supported Democrat Lynn Rivers in her bid for a U.S. House seat. Rivers is running for re-election to the House today against Republican Joe Fitzsimmons.
Ann Arbor Mayor Ingrid Sheldon is also on today's ballot, just as she was two years ago. Sheldon, a Republican, won her bid for re-election but garnered only 48 percent of the student vote. Her Democratic opponent, David Stead, took 51 percent of the student vote.
Sheldon is up against Democrat Chris Kolb today.
Kingdon said the voting record does not necessarily indicate that the majority of students have liberal leanings.
"(The results) may be different according to students' place of registration," Kingdon said. "For example, Democratic students might register in Ann Arbor, while Republican students might keep their home registration."