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koganbotLet's see. Some polls have closed somewhere, yes.
In further GOTV news, two sweet young things together - perhaps they were a couple - came to my door in Obama regalia, and I told them I had already voted, and they looked at me as if I had just said the most wonderful thing in the world.
Listened to a brief bit of a program on NPR where the gist of the five minutes I heard was that this being a big turnout and all, things were messing up and screwing up just as you would expect and that this of course is going to have its most severe impact on the new or infrequent voter, say one whose name doesn't get listed or whose poll worker doesn't know that a utility bill is perfectly good identification (since to get poll workers who know these things you would have to believe in investing money in government and such, so I blame the Republicans, but as I am in parentheses I haven't gotten to the point which we will reach only upon the closure of these parentheses), the point being that none of these screwups were deliberate attempts to suppress the vote but nonetheless it's the new voter (hence likely to vote Obama) who's most likely to be disenfranchised, and I blame the Republicans anyway. [The previous paragraph contains expressions of opinion that were not in the actual NPR report.]
Fortunately, the Obama ground game and emphasis on early voting and so on are likely to mitigate some of the impacts of these problems, the problems not being intentional but I blame the Republicans.
My brother says that when he went to vote in Arlington, Virginia there was an Obama lawyer present, should anyone have had any questions. Only three people were in line however, so I'm guessing that questions at that particular moment were few.
In further GOTV news, two sweet young things together - perhaps they were a couple - came to my door in Obama regalia, and I told them I had already voted, and they looked at me as if I had just said the most wonderful thing in the world.
Listened to a brief bit of a program on NPR where the gist of the five minutes I heard was that this being a big turnout and all, things were messing up and screwing up just as you would expect and that this of course is going to have its most severe impact on the new or infrequent voter, say one whose name doesn't get listed or whose poll worker doesn't know that a utility bill is perfectly good identification (since to get poll workers who know these things you would have to believe in investing money in government and such, so I blame the Republicans, but as I am in parentheses I haven't gotten to the point which we will reach only upon the closure of these parentheses), the point being that none of these screwups were deliberate attempts to suppress the vote but nonetheless it's the new voter (hence likely to vote Obama) who's most likely to be disenfranchised, and I blame the Republicans anyway. [The previous paragraph contains expressions of opinion that were not in the actual NPR report.]
Fortunately, the Obama ground game and emphasis on early voting and so on are likely to mitigate some of the impacts of these problems, the problems not being intentional but I blame the Republicans.
My brother says that when he went to vote in Arlington, Virginia there was an Obama lawyer present, should anyone have had any questions. Only three people were in line however, so I'm guessing that questions at that particular moment were few.
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Date: 2008-11-05 01:33 am (UTC)