Question for Americans

[pyat]

Why are voting lines in the U.S. so long? I'm reading about six hour waits in some early voting places, and I seem to recall tales of "lines around the block" in the last election. Are there only a small number of voting stations?

I've never heard anyone up here complain about waiting in line to vote - or, if they did it was a matter of "It took me 15 minutes to get to the polling station! What a mad house!" sort of thing.

Do we do things differently, or is this just a matter of freak incidents getting media attention?

Comments

[relee.livejournal.com]

It's a bold conspiracy to make them think regular voting is innefficient so that they'll support easily tampered-with digital voting!

It's a joint effort by the Mole People and the Crab People!

Or something. ^.^

Seriously though it does seem weird. Even their early voters had to wait in line.