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Early Voting Problems Could Change Future Elections

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, McCain, Video, Voting

Who else is afraid that election day will be a mess?

Here’s NBC with more on the problems with our voting infrastructure…

Regardless of who wins on Tuesday, you can expect nearly every single Democratic politician in every single state to start pushing for early voting across the board. Especially if the lines on election day are as long and awful and disenfranchising as they threaten to be.

I also think a National Voting Holiday will be on the table, regardless of who the President will be. And by the way, isn’t it about time we get rid of the unofficial “poll” tax?

More as it develops…

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One Response to “Early Voting Problems Could Change Future Elections”

Rich Horton Says:
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:46 pm
How many polling stations are open for early voting? I’ve voted early twice in the past in both Missouri and Virginia. Both times you could only vote at the county courthouse and they had no dedicated staff for the purpose. Their were only a few other people voting, but we had to wait while they directed people to the correct office for marraige licenses or whatever. Now, the vast majority of election day polling places do regular business the rest of the year, so they are not necessarily viable as early voting venues, so we are swamping county courthouses for no good reason. Most of the people voting early now could just as well go to their assigned polling place on election day.

Now, why urban voting precincts have so many troubles on election day is beyond me. When you consider that urban precincts usually have less voter turnout (and less % of eligible voters registered), they shouldn’t have such consistent problems.

I love hearing folks blame the GOP for the fact Democratic county election officials run such poor elections year after year. There is a documentary out there showing election day in some large urban area (Chicago?). Watching it I came to two conclusions: 1) the election officials in the film have a hard hard job, and 2) they were woefully underprepared for election day.

Its funny how you dont see similar problem even in the most populous GOP counties.

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