Posted on 03/04/2020 10:46:42 AM PST by Envisioning
At our primary voting location they formed separate lines for Republican primary voters and Democrat primary voters with separate voting booths for each side.
If they did this in the general there would be blood.
**....they check your ID...**
Not in Vermont, no ID check. Heh.
[unless you are a new voter, and registering on the spot]
That would be a good idea, only in precincts where there’s almost an equal number of Republicans and Democrats. In other places, there will a long line, in one area, and no one voting, in another area.
Texas used to do that many years ago.
Georgia does not and if they did I would be raising all sorts of heck.
What state are you voting in?
In Texas, the party’s controlled the numbers of booths and where these booths were located.
Neither wanted people from the other party using their booths, hence the separation.
Some counties contacted the parties (Dallas county, for example) and asked that they be allowed to allocate booths by precinct and projected voting numbers. Both parties declined.
The result was long lines at some Democrat heavy precincts. Sucks for them.
I am in Pennsylvania, where primaries are closed.
Typically they do have separate machines set up for Republicans and Democrats because the ballots are different. I’ve never been asked to stand in a separate line while waiting but depending on the layout of a particular polling station I suppose that’s possible.
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It went smoothly by all accounts that I have heard.
Interesting that the democrat voting screen warning against crossing over, or losing your privileges to voting in the after voting caucuses to determine voters at the state party convention.
With the electronic machines here in Texas, we get a receipt with an access code that we enter into the machine and then it displays the appropriate ballot for the party. This way, the machines are generic and the lines go faster.
-PJ
This is a good thing.
If there are long lines of Democrats waiting to vote, but only a handful of Republicans, why make the Republicans wait in a long line?
The two will have separate ballots anyway, so this doesn’t inconvenience the party with the long line, and helps the party with the short line.
In my small town here in Texas -— one line and one set of voting machines for everyone. Of course, our District is very Conservative, so the Democrats were welcomed, unmolested, and treated with respect. Wish that could happen in both directions everywhere in our USA.
It also makes it easier to “lose” the republican votes!!
No, it doesn't. It's just as "easy" or hard as it would be if everybody was in one check-in line.
Texas still does this, although you are not required to vote in the line that you are Registered in (For instance, I as a Republican could vote in the Democratic Primary). Interestingly when I voted yesterday there were a dozen people in the R line and I only saw one D even go up to vote.
When I was an election judge in Texas, we had separate lines in the primary because there were separate ballots.
I had fun watching people walk in and guessing whether they would opt for the Democrat line or the GOP line. In general, if they were poorly kempt, rude, could not produce ID quickly, argumentative or not very intelligent, they usually got in the Democrat line. If they were clean, polite, orderly, had their IDs at the ready and zipped through without complaint or problems, they were usually Republican.
Upstate NY....Our primary was the same. I was surprised.
Two lines is a good idea.
Patriots and Democrats
Were the dems handing out fliers for their convention in 2 weeks?
There was no mention of Republican convention last night after voting.
I’ll be filing a complaint county, state, federal.
It’s still done here in Coryell County. I’m not clear on why it’s a problem.
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