A BIG SHOUTOUT to LibDemAlways and 11Bravo....

[Virginia Dare]

Thank you LibDemAlways for enlightening us here at DU to the true poisonous character of George Felix Allen. I know you inspired many here at DU, and not just Virginians, to support Jim Webb. You, are a true patriot.

Another thank you and congratulations to 11Bravo who I know worked long and hard for Webb.

Thanks to all other DU'ers, Virginians and non Virginians who helped out Webb's cause, financially and otherwise. This has been a crazy dream come true, and we now have control of the SENATE!!!!!

:kick: :applause: :patriot:

[godai]

1. I did my part as an Election Official in NOVA

My congratulations also to those of you who led the way here on DU. I worked on election day from 5 am to 11:30 pm, processing about 1800 voters in Prince William County. It's a grueling, long day but worth it and essential to the voting process. Be aware that there is a chronic shortage of Election Officials, so please consider signing up for the next election. There's a small remuneration ($100 in VA) but that's not the reason I did it.

An interesting note...In the morning, there were poll watchers (repub, I believe) who insisted that the person checking in each voter loudly call out the name and address of each voter. I was surprised to learn that this is permitted by VA law. I understand that this type of poll watcher has a list of registered (repub) voters, checks off those who voted, then goes home in the afternoon to encourage those who had not yet voted, to vote.

I also had someone tell me that they received an email..from the GOP...telling them their correct voting location.

Many voting locations had changed in my precinct and I must have had about 100 voters tell me they went to their former polling place, but it had changed, and they had not been informed. There were also a number of voters who showed up at my location but their voting location had also changed. Everyone was then told of their correct voting location but I wonder how many people failed to go through the process again at the new location, after waiting up to an hour already. I had voted absentee, but I checked if my location had changed and it did, but I do not believe that I was informed. I don't know if there is a story here but it was surprising that this happened. Other voters indicated that they had been informed of the change. Others indicated that they had been switched back to theira previous voting location and wondered why this would happen.

[Virginia Dare]

2. Interesting...

I vote in Fairfax Co., and they call out the names and addresses of everybody voting there, I thought it was SOP.

Those SNAFU's that you describe in Prince William are significant, as they and Loudoun County were really the deciding factors in the Senate race.

Thanks to you for your service godai, my neighbors across the street and two doors down are both election officials, and I believe, along with me are the only Dems on the street, more Democrats need to get involved in the process!

[LibDemAlways]

3. Thank you. Many people who knew Allen

way back when have been spreading the message of his bigotry for years. Another high school classmate who knows reporter Ryan Lizza was instrumental in getting the lengthy "Pin Prick" article about Allen published in The New Republic back in April. If you google "George Allen racism" you'll find articles that mentioned his "racial insensitivity" going back a long time, certainly predating this year's race.

It wasn't until Allen opened his big trap and uttered "macaca," however, that the floodgates opened. So, ultimately, Allen's undoing was his own.

If my warnings helped get the message out, good! Thanks to all of you in Virginia for your hard work in ridding the US Senate of a racist scumbag.