What are your thoughts on early voting? (please do not reference political parties or candidates)
Long lines for early voting, in some (most) cases, is evidence of voter suppression.
In my county, there were five locations for early voting (actual election day voting has many voting precincts). One of the early voting locations was at a church fairly near my house - which is technically a close-in suburb, and another location was at the library downtown. As a matter of voter population density, the library would be expected to be busier.
Our early-voting timeframe was two weeks. Based on news coverage, social media, anecdote from friends, the first few days had significant waits at all locations. I think there's a lot of early-bird enthusiasm that brings lines at the more-limited number of voting locations.
But after those first few days, I kept hearing that the lines at the church were long and it took over an hour to vote - sometimes even longer. Like I have done it the past, I went down to the library downtown and voted in 15 minutes.
If I presume that all of the conditions are otherwise equal (meaning the same number of booths, pollling place staff, etc.) and each can handle the exact same number of voters over the same time period, then there was simply more demand at the church. But I think it's unrealistic to think all of that was constant and I have no idea really why one would be faster or more in demand than the other. But these are human beings and volunteers, it's not necessarily foul play that one would move voters more quickly through than the other.
But here in South Carolina, if there's any suppression going on, I can tell you who is suppressing and who is being suppressed - it was actually the subject of a recent Supreme Court decision. If that was the reason why lines would be longer at one location than the other, it doesn't hold up to this example.