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This is the “My Voting Today Experience Thread”
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[quote:NotStarvingActress:MV8zOTI3Njg0XzcwODgzNzE4X0YzMzY3OTg2] In past years I've worked helping people to vote in Vegas. Most get their jobs because they know someone, and not because they're competent or able to do their job whatsoever. The previous dictator of voting, Larry Lomax, blatantly refused to hire anyone remotely attractive or youthful. I had to fight to be allowed to vote at least once because the poll workers were unfamiliar with election law and blatantly REFUSED to call their supervisors, even though no one else was at the polling location. In the past the DNC in NV has given coffee and doughnuts to homeless if they agree to be driven to the polls. They are then handed a list of people for whom to vote. Culinary & Teamsters' Union harass their members & retirees, with multiple in person visits, until they agree to vote the proscribed slate. They are handed lists. Many casinos also hand all of their employees preferred lists. Growing up in Chicago my neighbor told me union workers were given $ to vote the list. Everyone was afraid to deviate. [/quote]
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Already saw two posts today’s that were interesting, to say the least.
One, someone wrote their daughter in CT went in to vote and noticed TWO others listed at their address on the list. The person lives alone....poll workers marked the entries if the people try to come in today and vote they will be stopped. Then said a murmur ran through the workers as they noticed a few other “duplicates” too.
She also commented that there ARMED POLICE there. Maybe expecting some trouble today. Makes me think of the early days in Iraq after the war, when people literally took their lives in their hands for the privilege of participating in the democratic process of voting. How the hell did America slide this far Way from oir basic beliefs?
Anyway, more on topic: I just thought we needed a thread to keep track of what’s going on at polling stations around the country Tell us where you are (you can just put the state if you want to maintain your anonymity),what you saw or experienced and how busy it was.
I voted early to avoid the polls but I expect there will be plenty of folks with “a story of their experiences” today!
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