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   On 12 Nov 2020 at 06:24p, Gerhard Strangar pondered and said...   
       
    GS> I've heard of people waiting in line for over an hour. But what's going   
    GS> on there? Our polling stations are open on Sundays from 8:00 to 18:00   
    GS> hours with 500-1000 voters per station and I'd say they're pretty much   
    GS> equipartitioned over time. Only when church is out there might be up to   
    GS> 20 people at once, but I don't think it takes more than five minutes for   
    GS> all of them to vote.   
      
   What's going on is that the American right has realized that it   
   is a dying minority, and the only way it can hang onto power is   
   via nefarious means.  Thus, they will try and disenfranchise   
   voters or otherwise use authoritarian tactics in desperate (and,   
   frankly, pathetic) bids to stay relevant.  Reducing the number   
   of polling stations, making it harder for people (particularly   
   Black and Brown people), gerrymandering congressional districts   
   to give them an edge in the legislature even though they're strictly   
   a minority most places.... That's what leads to these absurdly   
   long lines etc.   
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