Reply #102: Yep, I couldn't quite wrap my head around what was happening at first

[Lorien]

and I thought it might have been an isolated incident. Then that evening one of my former students called, sputtering in fury. He said that he had changed his registration from independent to Democrat eight months earlier. He had his new voter ID ready and went to vote where he had always voted before. When he got there the woman checking his info read back his name and address to him, he confirmed it, then she said "you can't vote today". He asked why, since all of his information was correct, and she repeated "you can't vote today"! Then she nodded at a cop who was standing near the door. The cop came over, grabbed him roughly by the arm, and pulled him out of the building. When they were outside the cop said "you won't be voting today, son, so don't bother coming back". He tried calling the Democratic party HQ but the line was busy until evening. That's when I knew for certain that this was an orchestrated campaign to steal the Whitehouse. Coming from the Midwest, I'd never seen anything like it before. Columbus was very Liberal in the 70's and 80's (I was born there in 1965). I had never even heard a white person use the "N" word before I moved to Florida for a job in '89. It certainly is different down here; far more corruption then up North (well, at least until Blackwell came along).

I really like the Short North. It feels a lot more like the city did decades ago. I used to work at an advertising firm there when I was attending CCAD, and still like to hit the Riley Gallery and Martini's when I come up for a visit. It wouldn't be a bad place to raise a family either, especially if you had one of those grand Victorians!(Which years ago sold for only $1 each...unrenovated, of course). ;-)

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