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Originally Posted by Raellus
It's really not, if you're willing to be a little proactive. You can vote by mail here. I sent in my ballot two weeks or so before election day. I didn't even have to leave the comfort of my own home.
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I also had virtually no problems. Walked maybe 50 yards to my polling place, had a 2 min issue when they tried to convince me to use a obviously broken electronic voting machine, but I finished my paper ballot in about 10 min (lots of judges to vote on)
These voter waits seem to crop up in years and areas with unexpected turnout. I do think that states would like people to have an easy time voting, but they do not provide extra resources "just in case" and generally base their assumptions on how many voted in similar elections in prior years.
https://www.vote.org/early-voting-calendar/
has a list of what states vote early. I was surprised at the mix of states that don't allow early voting (or restricted it to Absentee only requiring an excuse). Red, Blue, and swing states are all there. Michigan and Pennsylvania (both swing states) had almost unheard of turnout in some counties and that coupled with their lack of early voting could certainly lead to unexpected waits.