My understanding is the number of machines that goes to each district is determined by the State. The District manager then decides how to allocate them at the site. Here the district manager in question allocated them 50/50 to Dems and Republicans, which was obviously not smart. The reason they did that though is the Republicans denied a request for a joint primary (which would have done away with the 2 separate lines) since all machines were programmed the same way. The end result was no line on the Republican side with most of those machines unused and a 6 hour wait on the Dem side.
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