What? Each state board of elections is usually partisan. The number of voting places and their resources is designated by someone who is most certainly partisan. Virtually all places that had huge lines, take a wild guess if it was the left or right that was responsible.
Never thought of it that way! I was watching on the news and wondering where the hell those places were though. I've never even sniffed a legitimate line when I've voted. I have always voted in highly Democratic areas.
I live in a reliably Democratic area of California and I've both seen and been in long poll lines.
I'm not saying there isn't somewhere where local politicians are conspiring to suppress turnout, but often long lines are just a matter of understaffed or under-hosted polling places, which presumably means that the various campaigns would rather have their election-day volunteers calling people or driving them around than running a polling place.
