Kolek planning to go pro
I waited a half hour in a REALLY SLOW line this morning. When I got to the front of the line, I realized why it was so slow. The three really nice ladies that were looking up the names and checking IDs were older than dirt. A n d s l o w A F . If they put one old experienced person in there with a couple students, I bet I wouldn't have waited more than 10 minutes.
Ah .. that's no good. We have 3 places, maybe 8 booths, one machine each location. Our bottleneck is the 3 polling workers who are looking up your name, checking ID, getting you to sign, handing you a ballot.So .. this all being said, I'm curious how these waits are allowed to continue. In Wisconsin, it's the municipality that draws the wards and selects the polling spots .. while those are typically drawn by the staff/management, they are voted on by the council/board/trustees. I was a trustee in 2011 and did exactly this, after the 2010 census.So .. if there were giant lines, as an elected official living in the area, I'd receive complaints -- and would be pissed too, after all, these are people in my neighborhood being denied a reasonable path to voting.So this is what I don't understand. Maybe it's different in each state. Saw on Twitter that there are 3 hour waits in Atlanta. The Atlanta City Council is .. mostly minority members. Aren't they outraged? Weren't they outraged 2-4-6 years ago when this happened before? It's not galactically difficult to have more polling stations, helpers, booths. How does this keep happening?
But Benny, how can we keep hackers from tampering with elections when Target can't even keep my credit card information secure*?
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.
Because voter suppression is not in the best interests of a democratic society.
Nothing stopping the students from volunteering.
Should marijuana be legalized, taxed and regulated in the same manner as alcohol for adults 21 years of age or older?
Should the state legislature protect residential property taxpayers by preventing commercial and manufacturing property owners from using tax loopholes to shift the tax burden to homeowners?
I don't want to debate the substance of the referendums themselves, but can we talk about the language of referendums as they appear on the ballot? Today was a perfect example of a well-written referendum and a godawful one.Good:This is concise, apolitical, and just detailed enough to provide real insight into the minds of voters. Every word in that sentence is required to understand the true meaning of the referendum. If this referendum passes, and a state legislator speaks out against corresponding legislation, he or she should have to reckon with this - which as I understand it, is the entire point of a referendum. A+Bad:Excuse me? This is leading AF and never even mentions the substance of the question. This is the "dark store" referendum, and is seeking voter opinion on whether big box stores should be able to lower their property tax assessments by accounting for (the increasing number of) similar vacant properties in their appraisals. Regardless of your position on the dark store theory of appraisal, you wouldn't even know that's what was being addressed here. And using phrases like "should the legislature protect" and "preventing tax loopholes" renders it legislatively meaningless. F, take home and have signed by parents.
Wearing a sticker is stupid af (no offense to the many wearing one, but..)
Two reasons to wear the sticker:1. To get your free slice of pizza at Ian's in Madison 2. To ward off canvassers trying to get you to the polls on election day. "Leave me alone. Didn't you see my bleeping sticker?"
My grandson (16) volunteered at an inner city polling place. He is there from 8am - 8 pm.My wife and I volunteered at for a Jispanic outreach canvass program to encourage people to vote. Served them lunch. Great to see 150+ kids out doing this (mostly minority, probably 40% Hispanic, 40% black and 20% white).
In our fine state, the ruling party is so determined to maintain control that it has tried everything possible to suppress the vote. One thing they tried to do was cut number of early voting days in half, making only one Saturday available, and closing the polls entirely on Sundays. Why close them on Sundays, because surveys showed that was a popular day for blacks to vote after church. Heartless, racist d-bags running things here.
Wearing a sticker is stupid af (no offense to the many wearing one, but..)People feel righteous and special for voting. I don’t get it. Might as well wear a “I washed my hands after hitting the John (pause)” sticker
didja ever come out of the bathroom with wet hands and ya run into someone ya know, they shake your hand and then look at ya kinda funny? well worry no more if ya keep one of these handy-
I think this country should bring back the poll tax . Would get a much better outcome. Too many uninformed people who are easily swayed that vote.
^^^ ban dis gf-person
So according to your response, if I don't post on social media that I voted and/or that others should do the same... I am then suppressing votes?
Tell me again why we want more people to vote?Also, why is voting the only civic duty where we feel the need to brag we did it? I don't go around bragging that I paid sales tax at lunch today...
You can choose not to vote. I wish I could choose not to pay sales taxes.
An hour long wait in my voting precinct. Viva Democracy!8 voting stations in a precinct of 10, 000