Waiting in line for hours late at night at a Vaughan, Ont., polling station was likely not the way Kay Baptiste-Douglas and her husband, Clive, expected to spend their wedding anniversary.

And while it was a bit frustrating, they felt they had a duty to wait as long as it took to cast a ballot, she said.

“A lot of people would probably fight for these liberties,” said Baptiste-Douglas, standing in line at a polling station in King-Vaughan, a riding north of Toronto.

The couple was among scores of voters across the country forced to wait in line for hours, some until past midnight, in order to