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NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
Tue Oct 23, 2012, 03:11 PM Oct 2012

So the repukes are making it harder to vote....

They have shortened early voting times and locations and made more hoops for voters to jump through all in the hopes of keeping voters away from the polls.

I also keep seeing reports of huge turnouts at early voting places and large numbers of absentee ballot requests and returns.

I also keep reading that Democrats requested 2 to 1 more absentee ballots and that most of those standing in line for early voting are traditional Democratic voters...

What happens when the repuke plan is successful on Election Day? What happens when the (lets say) old, white republican leaning voter shows up at the poll on Election day only to see that there is a huge line in front of them? I think that just as many of them would turn around and go home as will democratic leaning voters.

So if more of the absentee votes were Democratic as were the Early votes, and the same number of repuke and Democratic voters walk away instead of standing in the long lines....doesnt that help us win? If the repukes disenfranchise their own base with long lines at the polls they are shooting themselves in the foot.

So go vote early and hope that the repukes wait to stand in line on election day.

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So the repukes are making it harder to vote.... (Original Post) NightWatcher Oct 2012 OP
No Lines in Repiglickin Precincts, Plenty of Voting Machines There AndyTiedye Oct 2012 #1
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