A-M and N-Z

[live love laugh]

I went to the wrong polling place today and stood in line to register before I learned that I was at the wrong location.

I noticed that the line I was in was VERY long while there was nobody in the N-Z line.

When I got to the front I found I where I needed to go and sure enough, there were A-M and N-Z lines and guess which lines were longer? Think about it, how many people have surnames that begin with a "U" or an "X" or even "Y" which are part of the N-Z group? Most surnames fall in the A-M segment.

The long lines at the polls could be solved by simply changing the alphabetical breakdown at the check in points.

My tinfoilhat tells me that this is intentional.

What do you think?

[Eric J in MN]

1. Probably unintentional.

In Minnesota, there is one line regardless of last name.

I only waited 5 minutes.

I'm in a suburb of Minneapolis.

Some people in Minneapolis itself waited an hour-and-a-half.

[earthlover]

2. when I voted, the N-Z line was MUCH longer!

Golly, those odd names like Smith are so rare

[NYC_SKP]

3. 26 letters, 13+13, A-M and N-Z

No conspiracy here, they would have had to do a quite a little counting and math to arrive at a fair split at different letters.

[AZBlue]

4. That's very true - our M-Z line had NO ONE in it.