The ordeal surrounding voting in the US always sounds so bizarre. I never had to wait in line or even spend more than a few minutes to bother about voting.
Though I guess inner city area and not being the victim of voter suppression goes a long way towards that.
Yeah, it is what happens when elections are run on the cheap. In Mexico they open nearly 150,000 polling stations, and no station can have more than 750 registered voters. I have never had to walk more than 3 or 4 blocks to a station, and the longest I once waited was about 15 or 20 min: usually you show up, vote your 6 ballots and are out in 15 in total. But it is a huge logistical exercise, and costs a pretty penny.
Roughly the same like here and in Sweden.
Austria for example has 11.000 precincts for 6.4 million voters. That's 580 voters per precinct, but 15% vote with postal ballots, so it's closer to 500 per precinct.
In the US, it seems there are about 5.000 voters per precinct ...
In Indiana it generally is 200-1500. Lines usually happen just because 6-8 is when the vast majority of people vote.
