Posted on 02/06/2008 1:50:28 PM PST by Kaslin
Voters in Non-Super Tuesday States Complain That Polling Places Are Closed
Hoping to vote early, vote often — or both — thousands of citizens from some of the 27 states that did not hold primaries or caucuses on Super Tuesday mistakenly turned out to cast ballots anyway. Many of them called local officials to complain their polls were closed.
Caught up in the buzz surrounding yesterday's contests — the biggest day of primary balloting in this or any previous year — voters in states like Washington, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Virginia, which won't hold primaries until later this month, showed up at shuttered polling places and called their boards of elections to complain.
Several hundred people in Florida, mostly in Palm Beach and Orange counties, contacted their county supervisors to complain they could not vote. They actually could have voted, only a week earlier when the state held its primary on Jan. 29.
"I'm hearing Super Tuesday, Super Tuesday, Super Tuesday all week and all month long. I just figured it was voting for everybody. I didn't hear anything different for Wisconsin, though I guess maybe I should have," said Ethel "Penny" Goodwin of Milwaukee, who along with half a dozen neighbors showed up at a local school yesterday at 6:30 a.m. to be first to vote.
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“Several hundred people in Florida, mostly in Palm Beach and Orange counties, contacted their county supervisors to complain they could not vote. They actually could have voted, only a week earlier when the state held its primary on Jan. 29.”
These were the same counties where people couldn’t follow a line from the check box to the candidate back in 2000.
I see the collective IQ of those Florida counties has not improved.
The dumbing down of America is true my FRiends......these people should be removed from the planet,,,talk about UNINFORMED.
Geez...not Flori-DUH again!
Someone needs to post that pic (Not this s*** again...)
I dunno, at least they wanted to exercise their right to vote and, not to mention, they are “live” voters.
These people put the “mor” in moron
>> These people shouldn’t be allowed to vote
Years ago, they used to require a literacy test before voting. Back then, it was a technique that, in conjunction with poll taxes, kept those of certain races away from the polls.
There ought NEVER AGAIN to be a poll tax.
But I’m thinking it might be good for US to bring back some sort of literacy & civics knowledge threshold a voter has to clear before voting.
It’s disgusting when the average voter knows more about what Paris Hilton was doing yesterday, than what their senator/representative/POTUS did last week.
Like I said, they shouldn’t be allowed to vote
What a dumbass, all she has to is wait for the bus loads of voters to show up from Chicago and she’ll know when to vote.
stooopid, stupid stupid....
I wish someone had asked which political party they are registered as.
I’m guessing the vast majority were Dems.
I believe voting used to require you to be a property owner. That, or something similar, might not be a bad idea. Only those with a stake in actually producing something get to vote on how those resources are used by government.
somebody post him: “that’s racist!”
"Goodwin, a schoolteacher in her 60s, was not discouraged by her failed attempt to vote in what she called a "history-making election."
>> I believe voting used to require you to be a property owner. That, or something similar, might not be a bad idea.
Yeah, or maybe: Everyone (that meets age and other requirements) gets ONE vote. Those who actually paid some income or property tax get ANOTHER vote.
That might bring some of the “income redistribution” schemes to a screeching halt, if those who actually had to pay for them had a little more influence than those who benefit from them.
Maybe the non english speaking media were the only outlets to announce the appropriate date.
/sarc
WOW!!! You said a mouthful!!!!!
I'm sure there is a thread in DUmmieland where they are indignant the Florida screwed up the vote with this.
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