Those damn Injuns just can’t be trusted to vote correctly, either.
Nothing actually new here, of course.
Bricker, I suspect, thinks that’s awesome and will state something about limousines to the polling place.
So, saying “Spoiler Alert!” would have been too much trouble?
So either it’s bad governance on the part of the GOP (mere stupidity) or a conspiracy to suppress the vote.
Let’s see if they re-open the 340+ polling places that have been shut down since 2008 in the general election.
Same thing happened in 2004 in Ohio. My second daughter’s best friend was attending Oberlin College at the time and waited in line in a cold November rain for five hours to vote. This was the story in many primarily Democratic leaning districts in Ohio.
Just 120,000 votes. Might have made a real difference. Imagine how many lives might have been saved.
I’ll call it GOP SOP until they prove differently.
Has there been any change in the proportion of available polling sites? What I’m thinking is that maybe the proportion of polling sites available for pee-ons remained the same, but the closing of so many polling places made a “tipping point”. Like, previously, there situation wasn’t all that good, but nobody cared until it unraveled entirely.
Say you have two groups of people, one that regularly overeats to a gross extent, and one that eats about half as much. If you were to enforce a diktat that both groups must cut their intake in half…the porkers will suffer, but the lesser folk may starve. Even though both groups are faced with the same demand, one-half. By way of careful thinking, you could even say they were fairly treated, both sacrificed the same amount. Sorta kinda.
Anyway, that might explain some of the piss-poor thinking that went into this. They cut the budget, but they cut the results “fairly”. Each group lost, say, fifty percent of their polling places, but could vote anywhere at all. So, people with cars drive a little further to vote, people without cars…
Because as easy as it is to buy this conspiracy, I’m still stuck wondering how they ever imagined they would get away with it. Unless they imagined it was totally defensible because, hey, it was fair! Those people getting screwed weren’t getting screwed any harder, any faster, or any more!
One could start with the recent Supreme Court decision that all but killed the Voting Rights Act.
My home township has a population of around 300,000. If we had just three polling places the whole voting process would simply break down. We have 178 election districts. Usually between three and five ED’s per facility, but each ED has its own voting machine.
In presidential elections we get between 300 and 600 voters per machine. Voting starts at 6 AM and goes to 9 PM, 15 hours. So, even in a busy ED about 20 votes per hour. Also there are extra stands (fka booths) set up so three or four people at a time can be marking their ballots. The actual scanning takes about twenty seconds.
In the 2014 general election we had about five people waiting “on” line at 9 PM. There probably will be a few more than that this year, but not too many.
The NYS Board of Elections is totally bipartisan. Neither party wants to give the other an advantage so they have arrived at a pretty decent set-up. Certainly more fair than some of those in other states.
Does the cited article state how many illegals waited five hours to vote?
Go away.
Voter turnout in Cave Creek vs. voter turnout in inner-city Phoenix?
Polling places per square mile in Cave Creek vs. inner-city Phoenix?
You mean the “Voting Privileges for Democrats Act?”
Yeah, that was a shame.
Ooh. Snap.
So you’re on record as opposing voting rights for Democrats.
No surprise.
No, but I might make an exception for aggressively illiterate folks such as you.
So Bricker’s still fighting against voter fraud? Does he know there are far more cases of lightning strikes in America than voter fraud? And lightning often causes severe injury or death, while 99.99% of voter frauds have no effect at all. (Most of the remaining 0.01% just mean one right-winger is elected instead of another.)
Does he know that the Cruzite Sec’y State of Iowa illegally spent federal funds intended to increase ballot access on investigating voter fraud but still uncovered more instances of illegal suppression than voter fraud? And …
Despite this blatant crime by Schultz, I’ll bet Bricker would just grin and say “The system worked! Sec’y of State Schultz didn’t get away with his crime!” … Ignoring similar instances we don’t know about because the Republiocrite got away with it.
Stupid as Bricker is, I think he knows all this. He just won’t admit it here. I’m not sure, with his right-wing holier-than-thou hypocrisies, that he’s even capable of admitting it to himself.
So you’re on record as favoring literacy tests for voters. Jim Crow Bricker. Cool.
No surprise.
What the fuck is “aggressively illiterate”? Somebody accosts you on the street and demands you read to him? Begs you to paint a sign for him to hold up next to the freeway: “Stone Stupid, Please Help!”?
You are the poster child for such. I’m sure you would tell us, if you were able to do so.
Another example of conservative projection.
Voting is a right, not a privilege, Counselor. :rolleyes:
Thanks for the admission of your true motive here, though, even if it’s something you merely let slip.
Maybe they’ll legislate against lightning strikes.