Anybody else hear NPR Affiliates This A.M. - Cheerfully Announce The WRONG Time For Polls To Open?!?
Put on your tinfoil hats.
As some of you may have read early this morning, the local NPR affiliate announced cheerfully at 5:10 AM or so that "The polls open at 7 AM." Wrong. They opened at 6:00 AM. I tried to contact the NPR affiliate, WBEZ, to tell them, no, you idiots. Called three different numbers. No joy. Left an email. No response. So I called the Board of Elections. They were interested in both my tales (the other was an issue with the vote machine--I know, I know, you're shocked.) I then called the station and told them. A colleague in the Science Department office said, Yeah, I was driving in, and I heard the same thing. I was yelling at the radio. I said, So you were listening to WBEZ?
"WBEZ? No, I was listening to WGN".
This is not looking like a coincidence.
Who votes from 6 AM to 7 AM? It ain't the 1%.
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On MSNBC they've had a running notice on poll closing times in all the states. Some close at 6, others at 6:30, 7, etc. My state (New York) closes at 9, but some are open till 10 or 11. 
