Long lines on Election Day could have been helped by a longer early voting schedule, additional voting locations and a shorter ballot, a report from Secretary of State Ken Detzner says.
Other areas for improvement mentioned in the report released Monday include an “unprecedented number of ‘in-person absentee’ ballots cast and the burden they put on supervisors of elections to distribute and canvass in a timely manner; the increased number of overall absentee ballots and the time in which they could be requested, mailed and canvassed; deficiencies in the local administration of elections; and the limited funding by county commissions to purchase the best available voting equipment.”
