Give voters rides from old polling places to new ones...

[Jeebo]

Hey y'all, I just read over at Democrats.com about a problem that I have a suggestion for solving. Where polling places have been moved, we need to have volunteers with vans at the old polling places waiting for voters to show up there, and then to give them rides to the new polling places. That way another Republican vote-suppression plot is thwarted. I can't do this myself; I don't have a van and will have to work that day anyway. And besides, I don't think that's happening where I live. But for Democrats in Philadelphia and elsewhere ... Oh well, here's what I read at Democrats.com:

<< Philly.com writes "You'll be shocked, shocked, to learn that Philadelphia isn't the only place in battleground state of Pennsylvania where Republican officials sought to move polling places in heavily Democratic neighborhoods at the last minute -- a move that could cause some confused voters not to cast ballots on Nov. 2... Campaign Extra! is reporting that officials in Scranton, PA's Lackawanna County last week successfully moved 21 polling places over both citizen and Democratic objections. The GOP had just grabbed a 2-1 majority on the county's board of commissioners. Unlike Philly, there's no racial angle. But Democrats say that each one of the polling places are in districts that vote at least 60 percent Democratic." It's pretty clear when George Bush or the GOP talks about Freedom and Democracy, they are lying. >>

Ron

[blondeatlast]

1. I believe it's already in the works. nt