Fox News Mocks 102 year old for waiting 3 Hours in Line to Vote.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Same here as regards the feebles.  The olds get an no excuse needed chance to request an absentee ballot, or do a walk-in absentee.  (SC doesn't have generalized early voting, but if you are eligible to vote absentee, you can do it in person at the voter registration office in your county.)

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I waited in line for 0 seconds to vote. It helps to not have Republicans running things.

The only place that had really bad lines in South Carolina in the last election was Richland County, which is run by Democrats, so incompetence in running elections really isn't something that is exclusive to one party.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Here in Memphis olds and feebles are allowed to skip the line and go straight to the voting machine. Don't know why every place doesn't do this.

Agreed.  Or, I don't know why she just didn't vote absentee.

Some people like to publicly perform their civic duty of voting rather than treat it as something shameful to be done in the privacy of their own home as if they were handling porn rather than a ballot.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I never figured out why we had so many long lines? What was the cause of this? Shortage of poll workers?

I wrote it in the other thread already: Some places in the US have a non-working system with too many voters assigned to 1 precinct (or even worse: they are not even assigned, they just come and vote there).

The US badly needs uniform voting standards for every entity (precinct/town/county/state/country), preferably a system which automatically registers people and eligible voters, election notification cards need to be sent to every voter 1 week ahead of the election with the precinct and its address on it and a system in which there is 1 precinct for every 500 or so voters and not 1 precinct for every 50.000 voters, which would lead to smooth election days. Also, you should only be able to vote in this precinct that is shown on the election info card that is sent to you via post 1 week ahead of the election (unless you requested an absentee ballot and bring that absentee ballot with you to another precinct, then you can vote at all other precincts as well). Also, voting should probably be held on a weekend to increase turnout.

Save for weekend voting and the automatic handing out of voter IDs, that is pretty much the system here in South Carolina and has been for years. Rather than 1 precinct per 500 voters, it is supposed to be at minimum 1 voting machine per 250. Precincts are supposed to be split once they are over 1500 to keep the place from becoming congested, with more poll workers at the larger precincts. The problems I mentioned in Richland County were due to an incompetent new administrator who severely underestimated the number of machines needed per precinct.  I think she was hoping to show she could run the process more efficiently and cheaply than her predecessor.  Instead, she no longer is the one in charge of voting in Richland County.