Me: Ireland - Approximately 2 minutes until poll in hand is the longest.

I’ve been seeing long lines for the US elections even for early voting. Seems completely unnecessary.

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    15 hours ago

    Houston, Texas. 4.5 hours

    The lines are intentional to discourage you from voting

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        14 hours ago

        ditto when i moved to austin.

        anecdotally: the length of the lines correlate with the wealth of the voting district. i think that texas is like arizona & georgia in that when the lines are long; they’re REALLY long compared to the long lines i experienced in california, new york, & illinois; but the short line places always seemed to be much emptier on election day for some reason.

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          10 hours ago

          For sure, my area isn’t necessarily more wealthy, but it is definitely more republican. Coincidence?

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        14 hours ago

        Fwiw it was less than 10 mins in the affluent neighborhoods I lived near San Francisco, California and New York and 1.5 hours in the poor neighborhoods in those same cities

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          That’s an interesting one. I live in a small town (~10K). It’s a fairly middle-class suburb of Dublin and the only place I’ve ever voted (but many times). Makes me curious if it’s different in other neighbourhoods.

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            14 hours ago

            i’ve lived in 11 cities in this country over the decades chasing work to maintain my health insurance and my experienced seemed normal to my neighbors who had lived there most of their lives as well.

            most of those cities had a large proportion of transplants like me and their experiences mirrored mine.