democracy at work

Hell, why try to suppress voter turnout when you can just make them wait until they give up?

Near the end of election night, two women decided not to vote at West End Middle School’s Wharton campus because the lines were too long.

One was enticed back inside with a chair. The other eventually decided she couldn’t wait any longer.
“The line is too long. It’s not even moving. I think it’s a conspiracy to keep people from voting, and it’s working,” said the woman who declined to give her name.

There were only two voting machines at the Wharton campus. Rhonda Hamilton who had been driving people to the polls all day as a volunteer for the Democratic party said there were 10 machines where she voted earlier in the day in Belle Meade.

Seriously, how hard is this? 2 machines?? TWO?


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As you can’t hold office in this town without membership in the Democratic Party I was wondering when the whiny titty babies would start crying “Voter Supression!”

Let’s look at our Election Commission.

Chairman Eddie Bryan is the Secretary-Treasurer for the Tennessee AFL-CIO, a well known GOP front organization.

Commissioner Ana Escobar-Burchwell is originally from Columbia. The drug mule place, not the Mule Days place. She’s in the Junior League. Clearly that betrays her dirty disenfranchisment past.

Commissioner AJ Starling is another organized labor stooge in the employ of Karl Rove.

Commissioner Lynn Greer was part of that secret Leadership Nashville cabal.

Yes, clearly there is something fishy going on.

That’s not really what I meant – the voter suppression bit was a bit tongue-in-cheek – i.e. who needs complicated suppression conspiracies when you can just make people wait in line.

The issue that I am really angry about here is, well, that people are waiting in line to vote and giving up. That’s fucked up whether it happens in East Nashville, Brentwood, or Hermitage (and I believe it happened in all three).

Yeah, I know. I just had to get my voter suppression rant out of my system. After watching that bullshit last night, people in line until after midnight, I knew that some folks wouldn’t accept incompetence as an excuse.

My polling place had three unused machines sitting in reserve.

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