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Re:Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Atta... by rsynnott on Friday September 28, 2018 @11:19PM (#18098535)
One oddity of the American system I’ve noticed is that most polls seem to close REALLY early. It’s usually 7am-10pm here, so unless you’re working a 15 hour day (which is illegal in most circumstances) you should be able to vote.

American polling centres also often seem to have massive queues and long waiting periods to vote, I assume due to understaffing and insufficient numbers of centres.

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Re:Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Atta... by ghostly_s on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @11:19AM (#18131025)
> American polling centres also often seem to have massive queues and long waiting periods to vote, I assume due to understaffing and insufficient numbers of centres.

Yep, due to a well-documented campaign by republicans to restrict access to voting that has been ongoing since the civil rights era.

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Re:Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Atta... by alistairSH on Saturday September 29, 2018 @08:42AM (#18100024)
Yup. And that lack of polling places and understaffing is usually an effort by the party in power to suppress the vote in key (opposing) districts.
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