[cardcrimson]

a few weeks ago, I had to wait for about 15 minutes. Didn't think about it, but perhaps you're correct, they are trying to suppress conservative votes, even relatively conservative ones at that.

Maybe straying too far into politics here...

I've been in the Bay Area most of my voting life. 

I might chalk up a 15 minute wait to a sudden influx of voters arriving at the same time of me, though I'd be irritated.

Anything more than 30 minutes I would attribute to underfunding, incompetence, or malice.

But actually my wife & I registered as a permanent absentee voters a few years ago.  Now we can take our time to fill out the ballot at home and just drop off a sealed envelope at our polling station the morning of the election.

The main downside of absentee voting is missing late-breaking developments, such as Buttigieg and Klobuchar dropping out a day or two before the election and endorsing Biden.

I'd chalk it up to sarcasm.

[cardcrimson]

a few weeks ago, I had to wait for about 15 minutes. Didn't think about it, but perhaps you're correct, they are trying to suppress conservative votes, even relatively conservative ones at that.

Maybe straying too far into politics here...

I've been in the Bay Area most of my voting life. 

I might chalk up a 15 minute wait to a sudden influx of voters arriving at the same time of me, though I'd be irritated.

Anything more than 30 minutes I would attribute to underfunding, incompetence, or malice.

But actually my wife & I registered as a permanent absentee voters a few years ago.  Now we can take our time to fill out the ballot at home and just drop off a sealed envelope at our polling station the morning of the election.

The main downside of absentee voting is missing late-breaking developments, such as Buttigieg and Klobuchar dropping out a day or two before the election and endorsing Biden.

I'd chalk it up to sarcasm.