The New York Times “Waiting Times at Ballot Boxes draw scrutiny” lays out much of the agenda of the Left (pre-registration and early voting) based on the perception of long lines.  Perception because the reality doesn’t support the argument.  It takes most of the article until the author gets to the actual data to support the Democrats new assertion.  The average “long lines” had become the new justification for the zany ideas of federal automatic or universal registration of all Americans instead of actual improvements to the voting process.  If the negative polling hasn’t already, this data should deflate that argument.

The average wait nationwide was 14 minutes last year, according to Mr. Stewart’s data. Blacks and Hispanics waited an average of 20.2 minutes, compared with 12.7 minutes for whites. In the most populous areas — those with more than 500,000 voters in a county — the average wait was 18 minutes, more than double what it was in counties with fewer than 50,000 voters.

…Florida had the nation’s longest lines, at 45 minutes, followed by the District of Columbia, Maryland, South Carolina and Virginia, according to Charles Stewart III, the political science professor who conducted the analysis.

A bit of perspective, tens of millions of Americans waited twice as long for the Super Bowl blackout to end and the game to resume.  A whole 35 minutes.