I was in line for an hour this morning to vote because they had to reboot the electronic voting machines twice. There was a crazy woman about 6 people behind me who was sure there was something going on.<\/p>\n
Nice old precinct volunteer lady:<\/strong> I apologize for the delay, but we are having to reboot the system, as one of the machines didn’t come online this morning. CW then got on her phone and started telling the person on the other end about how she was pretty sure she was witnessing voter fraud, and at the very least they were attempting to keep people from voting by making it take forever so they would get discouraged and leave. SHE was going to have none of it, though. She waited in line (with the rest of us, no one got discouraged and left), and when she got to the front took the opportunity to complain again, quite loudly, about how this process was flawed and she wanted to know who was responsible for choosing these terrible machines. To their credit, the NOPVL and the rest of her cohorts were polite throughout, taking her concerns seriously and apologizing for things they had no control over. To top it all off, the man she was with, upon having his ID verified and getting his small, green \u201cverified\u201d card which allowed him to move to the next station, started making jokes about how he\u2019d finally gotten his \u201cgreen card\u201d (har har) and he didn\u2019t know why people complained because it really wasn\u2019t as difficult to obtain as he\u2019d heard.<\/p>\n I guess if there\u2019s any moral to this story it\u2019s this: Morons vote. You should too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was in line for an hour this morning to vote because they had to reboot the electronic voting machines twice. There was a crazy woman about 6 people behind me who was sure there was something going on. Nice … Continue reading
\nCrazy Woman:<\/strong> Is this voter fraud?
\nNOPVL:<\/strong> No.
\nCW:<\/strong> Are these Diebold machines?
\nNOPVL:<\/strong> No, they’re [unintelligible].
\nCW:<\/strong> Are you SURE this isn’t VOTER FRAUD?
\nNOPVL:<\/strong> No, but it’s unlikely, as no one has voted yet.<\/p>\n