Turns out, I was wrong to mock you in your elections in recent years, for not being able to get your voters through polling stations in time.
Several polling stations around the UK have experienced situations where long queues (hours long in some cases) were turned away as polling stations closed at 22:00. In other cases, the queuing voters were locked in to allow them to vote. I've seen a report that in one case, they ran out of ballot papers, even! There's also a report I've heard that in Sheffield, voters who were turned away have barricaded the polling station refusing to let the ballot boxes leave until they're allowed to vote. (All coverage taken from BBC coverage)
So, USAians: I apologise. I should never have taken the piss out of your inability to run a democratic election. It turns out, it's harder than it looks!
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