The University of Texas also had long lines.
Sounds like this guy should not have gone to a university as his third choice of a place to vote. Maybe he should have just stayed in line at his assigned polling place.
Also, I found an article talking about this guy, and the reasons offered (by liberal sources) were several:
- accidental disabling of machines assigned there
- 11 people, including election judges, did not report to work...coronavirus fears expected. (Per the Austin American-Statesman: "Travis County had 164 vacancies after using up all of its emergency backup workers." The article stated that workers were abandoning their posts because there were not enough people to work the polling places because of the no-shows due to coronavirus fears. Interestingly, they reported that nearby rural counties (relatively speaking) had a full complements of workers. Maybe virus fears are worse in the cities.)
- "busy polling places had too few machines"...the example given? Polling places at grocery stores have been set up for convenience, but with very few machines intentionally. They mentioned that grocery store customers seemed not to mind the lines because they don't have to go find their polling place. They didn't mention targeting blue areas.
The American-Statesman is a liberal rag. I think they would have mentioned the problem you mentioned if it existed.