Posted on 11/04/2014 7:36:15 AM PST by Cecily
On an Election Day with national implications in the U.S. Senate race and a deadlocked battle for governor, voters reported much longer lines than usual Tuesday morning and sporadic problems across metro Atlanta.
Perhaps the most glaring problem: Voters reported having to pay to leave the parking lot adjacent to Georgia Tech’s student center polling site, despite signs announcing free parking.
“We were told inside that we could get out for free with our Georgia voter stickers,” said Elizabeth Stell, an attorney in Atlanta who arrived promptly when polls opened at 7 a.m.
“It took me maybe 15 minutes to vote and more than a half hour to get out of the lot,” Stell added. “It was only $2 but it’s the point that you shouldn’t have to pay to vote.”
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Here we go. Before its over, the AJC will be claiming that Georgia's Jim Crow parking laws suppressed the minority vote and kept the evil Republicans in power.
You're paying to park, not to vote dummy. My doctor's in an office park that charges $1 an hour for parking - keeps the 'riffraff' out of his office.
The day is young, the enemy is just awakening and hasn’t had it’s WIC breakfast/lunch yet.
Get the word out to the gimme voters.
Report from Kansas...a state that some believe will dictate who controls the senate:
Relatively long line at my fairly red polling station. Not the longest I’ve ever seen...but this is a mid-term. I took that as a positive sign.
Also, we have voter ID...and it actually helps speed up the process. No longer does a volunteer have to ask you how to spell your name, and flip through a ledger book. The scanner reads a code on my license, and I sign an electronic pad - very quick. Just another reason to use voter ID.
I think the Orman candidacy has been such a dishonest stunt, that it is driving turnout against him...which will also help Brownback. in his race. We’ll see.
At my polling place, unemployed, unkept-looking, white women were pushing into the line and complaining loudly about their lot in life and how awful Republicans are in North Carolina. Seemed like a planned thing. Main gripe? They could no longer vote a “straight Democratic ticket” in NC; they had to trouble themselves to vote for each candidate individually.
I voted at 6:30 and it was pretty dead. I’m working the polls at noon so I’ll be able to see the lunch crowd.
Good, concise report. Thx
My understanding is that Orman has no ground game, meaning that the GOP machine should be able to drag Roberts across the finish line...
How’s the weather? Forecasted weather?
It is precisely the opposite here in CA. You would not even know there is a big election today. There has been virtually no campaigning among the politicians, not even Gov. Jerry Brown who has millions of dollars in the bank. I live in the heavily populated L.A. area. I am on the freeways every day. You see no yard signs. No bumper stickers, no campaign offices, few signs on utility poles and fences, no phone banks, no precinct walkers no nothing, no sign of ground game at all, and, get this, hardly and political mail or slate mailers at all which I usually get a ton of considering that I am a high propensity voter. I’m telling you it’s dead here. Completely dead. Outside of heavy advertising on the radio for a few hotly contested ballot propositions, you would not know that there is an election going on today. Since this is deep blue CA, perhaps that is a good thing.
They're expecting a turnout near record lows in the state. Heck, a recent statewide poll indicated that four out of every 10 voters in California didn't know that Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown was running for re-election as Governor. smh
I thought that might delay things, but things went as fast as ever at ny precinct.
The party affiliation of the candidates is still displayed on the ballot, but if you're getting off the couch to go vote Demcocrat, it might be too much of a hassle.
Can’t you just put parking on EBT?
Sixty degrees, no rain.
Wow, in Kansas we have been bombarded with tv and radio ads...and more mailers than I’ve ever seen. Its obvious that national money found its way into our races...which is peculiar since Orman is and independent without a national committee....
Well you have highly contested US Senate and gubernatorial races in your state. The outcome of which party controls the US Senate could depend on KS. How does it look for Pat Roberts from your point of view? I, too, am watching KS very closely.
Here in one-party CA the Dems are expected to sweep all of the statewide offices as the state GOP has no money an operates on a shoestring. The best we can hope for here is a very light turnout, and perhaps the GOP can pick up a few House seats here and there and maybe if we’re lucky, a few seats in the state legislature.
I downloaded a ballot from the state elections website here in WA, printed, voted, and put it into an envelope, and chucked it into a mail drop. No lines needed.
The dem candidate got shoved out, because he wasn’t able to raise money. Orman can raise money...or at least put his own money up (he lent his campaign a million dollars). Yesterday, he was literally on the ground, knocking on doors.
Anyway, the rats took him under their wing real quick, and have helped with his ground game...even illegally handing out his yard signs etc. at their offices....and he is using a rat consulting firm. And I guarantee the doors he knocked on were chosen from a rat generated list.
So he’s fairly well mobilized. But the entire scheme is so dishonest, I really think it will backfire.
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