[Past Your Eyes]

What are you doing holding an election in an odd year anyway?

[HiTech RedNeck]

The soft run-a-round.

[NativeNewYorker]

Let's just say we practice Chicago style politics, if you know what I'm sayin'...

Practice makes perfect.

[z3n]

It makes perfect sense.

In those areas where you expect democrat turnout to be a minority, make it as difficult as possible for voters to find the polls.

[Saab-driving Yuppie]

The board of elections has to pick the sites for the polling places. Sites have to be willing, of course, and most government buildings are.

Increased voting by mail and early-voting means they are consolidating precincts and locations. Consolidating locations saves them money too since they have to pay rent and pay poll-workers. People are getting moved everywhere. We are going through the same thing down here.

Hamilton County has gone from 1000 to 800 to 600 precincts in the past 3-4 years.

The changes in locations, the changes in voting equipment, etc, are causing a lot of turnover in poll-workers too. The competence is definitely down here from what it used to be.

While I live in a GOP area and about 1/3 of our voters got moved, I know that some people in the heavy D areas are getting moved, too. A local TV station, whichever one serves WLW-AM, went to Ault Park to interview voters, as is their custom, and, well, it's no longer a polling place.

[originalbuckeye]

I had voted at the same place, with the same poll workers for 7 years in my California neighborhood. Then they switched the polling place but had the same workers. Next year different polling place again, same workers. Each time I was told that the previous place didn't want to host the voting again. Changed for 3 years in a row but with the same, 2 older white men and a woman at the table (average Cali suburb, mostly white). The 2008 election I had yet another different polling place but with 3 young blacks at the table. One, a young woman, helping those who were having ‘trouble’ filling out their ballot. I am glad that I won't have to vote in California again. I absolutely believe that the last Presidential election was fixed. We need poll watchers at EVERY polling place for EVERY election from now on.

[mom4melody]

hey - I live in Portage County but I work in Brecksville!

[Salvation]

Sounds like little ACORNS trying to make big oaks in Ohio!

[lionheart 247365]

Just remember ,,,,,, A Pessimist is an Optimist with experience ,,,,,,, your new tag line .

[Nateman]

If you should ever find yourself caught in the same game then

1. Put up a sign at the old place with directions on where to go.

2.Put up a sign in the new place.

3. If this was done on purpose to suppress voting then having a way to catch somebody removing the signs you put up will lead to catching the RATS responsible.

[traditional1]

I'm in Strongsville. My polling place had no signs, either, but being such an off-year election, with only local and State ballot issues, there wasn't the usual glut of promoters outside, etc.

Likewise, voting participation seemed very light, as could be expected in an off-year.

I suspect that in 2010, when the Congressional elections occur, there'll be much more activity and signage.