Report: Long lines led to lost jobs on Election Day

Long lines marred Election Day in Velda City
More than a dozen St. Louis County polling sites had waits of five hours or more on Nov. 4, the St. Louis Voter Protection Coalition said today in a report to the county’s election board.
As reporter Phil Sutin writes today, veteran civil liberties advocate Denise Lieberman presented county election officials with a report that said five people either lost their jobs or were disciplined because they were gone too long on Election Day.
Others, Lieberman said, had to leave the line to take care of their children.
“This amounted to disenfranchisement of the voters,” Lieberman said.
The best known and longest wait was at the Velda City City Hall where the delay reached seven hours. Some people caught in that situation were expected to talk to the election board this afternoon.


What was the cause for the delay?
What can be done to to prevent it in the future?
“five people either lost their jobs or were disciplined”
Decrypted: One person lost their job (because they went to the bar after voting) and 4 others were told that voting shouldn’t take so long. (they call that disciplined.)
Gotta love ambiguous statements.