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Waiting outside on a cold night for hours[1] is more than just "slightly inconvenient," particularly if you have kids and work.

Also, if people are only voting once every 2 years, then they're still opting not to vote in a lot of elections (elections where there vote has a lot more impact).

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/upshot/why-long-voting-li...

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The solution surely if to make voting quick and easy; I rarely hear stories of long queues for voting from outside of the US.

In the U.S. it's often an intentional way to suppress the vote of certain groups (the same with voter ID laws[1]). That's the problem with efforts to increase turnout - there are plenty of people in power who want to decrease turnout because it helps them politically.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/us/some-republicans-ackno...

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