FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Broward County elections officials announced Wednesday a plan to help reduce the wait times at early voting locations.

Long lines at early voting polls have continued to be a problem for voters across Broward County since locations opened Monday. Lines were so long in Broward County on Monday that the last person cast their ballot at 10:20 p.m., hours after the polls closed.

As of Monday, more than 11,000 people had voted, breaking records from the first day of voting from 2004 and 2006.

The high early voter turnout has sent election officials scrambling for solutions.

On Wednesday afternoon, Broward County election officials announced a new service that will allow voters to check wait times at early-voting locations. Voters can log on to www.broward.org or call 311 for wait times, which will be updated twice a day.

More voting booths also will be added at several voting locations, and more chairs will be provided for senior citizens.

Florida Rep. Kendrick Meek protested what he called "excessive waits" at polling stations and said he was considering filing a lawsuit to have additional voting machines installed.

In the first two days of early voting, the secretary of state's office reports that 150,766 people cast ballots in Florida.

Early voting will continue through Nov. 4. Eighty percent of Broward County’s 1 million voters are expected to participate in the election process.

Some Miami-Dade Voters Not Worried About Long Lines

Although some early voters in Miami-Dade County said they don't mind waiting to cast their ballots, elections officials there also are working to ease the lines.

On the third day of early voting Wednesday, voters began lining up at the North Dade Regional Library polling place in Miami Gardens at 5 a.m. While some stood in line for more than two hours before voting, most said they were not upset about the long process, Local 10's Kellie Butler reported.

Video: Early Voting In Miami-Dade County

The atmosphere outside the library was festive, as a song praising Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama played on a car stereo as hundreds stood in line.

Voters at the polling place, which is in a predominantly black neighborhood in northwest Miami-Dade County, said they are happy to wait to cast their ballots for Obama.

"Two hours, four hours, even 24 hours, is not a problem," said 84-year-old Lucia Rutter, who had been standing in line for 2½ hours.

Election officials wanted to remind voters that they could return another day or avoid the lines completely by requesting absentee ballots.

"I don't trust the mail. I'd rather come here in person, do it, get it out of the way," said voter Greg Southwood. "This way, it's all said and done."

Elizabeth Judd with the Miami Gardens Democratic Club said elections officials need to do more to speed up the voting process.

"They need to provide enough information for the voter to make an intelligent decision, and also they need to provide the equipment and the tools," Judd said.

To ease the delays, Miami-Dade County is deploying additional ID scanning machines, with 25 more on order. In addition, Miami-Dade County elections officials said that, like Broward County, they are in the process of posting wait times on the county Web site. The system is expected to be up and running by Thursday morning.