Early voting line goes around the block at Overbrook Elementary School on a rainy Monday in Philly. Some have been here since 9:30 a.m. The site opens at 11:30.

Many have folding chairs, prepared for a wait. The first person in line is Charles Boston, who'll turn 86 in December. His aide drove him here shortly after 9 a.m. He said his vote for Biden will be the most important he'll cast in his lifetime. "The country is in turmoil."

"We're doing this," Marlene Mills-Richardson, 70, yelled to the crowd as she unfolded her chair and took her place in line. A few nights ago, she had a dream it was 6 a.m. Nov. 3 and she was in a long voting line, the kind she'd already seen on TV. "That's voter suppression."

As morning turns to afternoon, line has grown outside Overbrook Elementary School. There's a DJ now too.

Deborah Ryles, 72, of University City, brought two of her neighbors to vote with her today. "My ancestors had to fight to vote," she said. She's submitting a mail-in ballot today, she said, "so that my vote will count."

Andrew Crane-Droesch, 39, of West Philly, had been in line for awhile and was getting hungry. He reported a line online to @PizzaToThePolls and they just delivered a bunch of pizzas. Turns out wasn't the only hungry voter.

Just ran into Marlene Mills-Richardson, whom I first met this morning at 11 a.m. She was walking out from casting her ballot, three hours later. Her eyes were welled with tears as she saw the long line. "This is great," she said. "People really care."

Frank Price, 69, a former police officer and Marine veteran, is casting a mail-in ballot in person today, "because I know on Nov. 3, it's going to be so mammothly crowded," more than today. As a person who's partially handicapped, he said early voting is easier for him.