It is awful that people have to wait hours in line to vote

[dsc]

and letting the 102 year old woman cut would not have solved the problem of others having to wait hours to vote, but I do have to say, that the people in that line should have let that lady cut. If it were my grandmother, I would want to have someone do that for her.

[pkdu]

1. Context please! Nt

[dsc]

2. the 102 year old lady at the SOTU

[Warpy]

3. I imagine some people were courteous

and let her go ahead of them in line. A lot of people probably didn't since they'd been standing there for hours, themselves.

This whole thing cries out for a civil rights suit against the officials who were behind all the cuts that resulted in such long waits on election day.

[aptal]

4. At our polling station

At least when I was there we let several older, pregnant, and disabled people go straight to the front of the line.

[FleetwoodMac]

5. This is what Mike Biundo,Romney's former Deputy National Director of Coalitions had to say yesterday

http://www.facebook.com/mikebiundo/posts/10151715012071959

Countless Americans have given their lives so we can have a right to vote but yet standing in a line is too much of a burden? #SOTU

And the sycophants came out of the woodwork to support him.

[dsc]

6. No he is saying the lines are OK

I am saying that the lines are not OK but given that there were lines, a 102 year old woman should have been permitted to cut. In NC, we have a special handicapped lane where you can vote curbside. Our lines were bad but not Florida bad. I think Florida should have had that or some other way of having 102 year old people not have to wait in line, even for a more reasonable half hour.

[csziggy]

7. In Florida it's up to the local officials

Here in Leon County, FL, our supervisor of elections has people checking the lines for anyone who needs help to vote, or who needs to get to the front of the line quickly.

Our primary date was the day after I was released from the rehab hospital following knee replacement. My husband dropped me off at the polling place and then went to park the car. By the time he parked and came to look for me, an election official had spotted me, took me to the front of the line and helped me get my ballot. When they realized that my husband was looking for me, they let him jump the line so he could vote and get me back to the car quickly.

During early voting, when I no longer needed special treatment, I watched them patrol the lines waiting to get into vote. Older people, people with mobility problems, anyone who looked distressed, all got special treatment. The total wait for those without a special need was less than 45 minutes, but the election officials still made sure anyone with a need did not have to wait that long.

But our supervisor of elections would NEVER let there be lines hours long. He has fought for fair and verifiable elections. Every state needs more like him. Ion Sancho is a local hero.