Heavily black and Latino precincts often have long lines and fewer voting machines on Election Day.

Vote early and you can vote where ever the hell you want. Problem solved.

 

Riiight and what about Mississippi and Alabama and Louisiana? Are all their issues a result of Republican rule?

The prosperity of NYC and Chicago and Houston, is that because of Democratic mayors?

 

Oil prices plummeting will not turn Houston into Detroit. The city has survived and thrived with low oil prices in the past. Houston is way too diverse and has a lot of investment that will actually do better with lower oil prices.

 

Ahem... she was on what I believe is a TV station devoted to African Americans and telling that "community" to vote straight ticket democrat. Straight ticket voting is ignorant, plan and simple.

 

Straight, ugly truth.

 

When has it thrive with low oil prices?

 

Not really, parties have sufficiently itemized platforms and channels of discourse that a straight ticket vote can reflect views on a bountiful bevy of a cornucopial plethora of a myriad of issues. If you were to divide caucasian voters into tranches of 12% of the population you could probably find the same liked-mindedness in each subset.

 

Back on topic. I went at 3pm to vote and I ended up waiting 1 hour and 10 mins to vote. By the time I left, it was easily 1 hour and 30 min wait. I can't imagine what the 5pm crowd.
This myth about minorities and democrat suppression is bogus. Out of the couple hundred people in line, I didn't see a single non-white person. And it was overwhelmingly Republican.
The reason was simple. Three slow elderly ladies handling the checking process.

 

Seriously, man. The people at my polling place weren't elderly, but just inefficient. One person for each stage of the process: ID, printing out the bar code, explaining that you can ask questions and a guy who seemed to only be telling people to get off of their phones.

 

Another way to make it more efficient would make 2 lines. one line for people who know the process, no questions needed to be asked, etc. The other line for the slow crowd, need assistance, has questions, etc.


Common sense would be to have your ID and Voter card out before walking into the polling place. I witnessed some too dumb to even do that. They should have a guy at the door give you a thumbs up if you have those 2 things in hand. If you do not, you automatically go to the slow line.