Mieka West and her family estimate they waited three hours to vote in Calgary's municipal election on Monday.
“There were probably … a hundred people in line, and they had been there for a while,” said West, who voted at the Ward 9 Colonel Walker School polling station in Inglewood in the late afternoon.
“Every time I voted in the past, it's been about five to maybe 30 minutes. It felt like it was a bit of a waste of our time.”
On Election Day, voters across the city reported long and slow-moving lines and questioned why this election seemed different from others.
In Ward 11, Chance Devlin said he wasn’t able to wait and ended up not voting at all.
“I got there and the lineup was really long … I meant to come back, but I also heard from other people it was still a long lineup."
But considering how close the mayoral election’s unofficial results were — on Tuesday, fewer than 600 votes separated winner Jeromy Farkas and runner-up Sonya Sharp — Devlin said he regrets not voting.
“I know that every vote count
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