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To: tioga
there are election laws against campaigning within so many feet of a voting booth. they wouldn’t DARE to place a real voting booth at that rally.

They did in Fayetteville, NC at an Obama rally.

Source: AP FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — North Carolina's Republican leaders lashed out at a county elections board that expanded the number of early voting sites open Sunday to accommodate people attending a rally for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. Terri Robertson, director of Cumberland County's elections, said she was concerned that a crush of people Sunday afternoon would leave her staff working all night to process voters. Elections officials are required to process anyone who is in line by close of polls at 5 p.m. "We decided that the best thing to do for our staff was to open two more sites so they weren't up all night processing voters," Robertson said. The full elections board, including one Republican member, voted unanimously on Friday to open two additional voting sites Sunday, bringing the total to five. The county does not plan to open voting sites on Sundays for the rest of the early voting period, but will have polling places open the next two Saturdays as well as week days, according to a schedule on the state elections Web site.

73 posted on 10/26/2008 8:55:48 AM PDT by illinifan (and yes, I am disgusted by my alma mater)
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To: illinifan

these sites were AT the site of the rally? OR were there just two new sites openned at other sites?


79 posted on 10/26/2008 9:06:23 AM PDT by tioga
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