why don’t they have more places to vote. i have been voting for over 30 years and it has never taken more than 2 or 3 minutes to go through a line. 5 hours? That’s crazy
I remember 1980. We went after work and waited for a looong time but it was worth it!
Too few voting places, too few machines, way more people in the nation voting! The lines would be ridiculously long, the wait would be many hours, and the voting time would have to be extended well into the early hours for everyone to vote in just one day. We're a nation of over 300 million people now and don't want to pay for extra polling places and machines.
Like Popman said: the lines were just too long, so he'd come back. That's what most people would do (including me!). Some might never come back and skip voting altogether. Some don't have time to stand in hours-long lines (family, work, whatever).
Me, I voted today, but waited a few hours for all the retired folk to vote (they like to take care of things as early in the day as possible, for some reason), and by 1 PM, the line was only about 20 people that moved quickly in this small town.
In my area there are fewer polling locations available for early voting than on election day. Early voting can run for weeks and that's a major disruption to the places that can accomodate it for one day. As always, time in line varies depending on how many others showed up before you.