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.

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