Meanwhile outside the polls

I live in a weird town. Here's my latest example. We went to the polls to vote today in East Hampton. There was a long line winding all the way through the school, out the doors, and down the sidewalk. There were supposed to be two lines: one for A-L streets and the other for L-Z streets. The silliest part was that if you lived on an L-Z street there was no waiting. You could just walk right in. A poll worker yelled at the line every minute or so telling L-Z people to just go right in and that they were in the wrong line. Most people seemed to know this routine though and didn't have to be told. Does it really make sense to have two lines if you haven't taken into account that there are way more streets starting with A-L in town than L-Z?