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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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.
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
Should have clarified, this was Tarrant County, Texas. Never saw this separation before. The Republican line was about 4 times longer and still out the door when we left 15 minutes until the polls closed. Got there at 5:30 and left about 6:45...
You and I both vote in Texas. I’ve never seen separate lines.
I early voted last Thursday and there were not separated lines outside or inside. Selected the ballot I wanted and was told to pick any open machine. Same as it’s been for many years.
In Amherst, NH. There are two voting machines to count the paper ballots, but not separate “lines”.
Also sort by 57 genders.