Was anyone else poll-watching Tuesday? I have some concerns....

[Mc Mike]

13. Harrisburg can be a black hole in the best of times,

and now we have Corbett. Your advice is right. Going through County Elections is the best course.

If I.D. is mandatory next time, anyone that already has a legal form of I.D. should go through County elections to re-register, to make their voter reg name an exact match with their I.D., instead of a substantial match.

There were about 20 different groups who e-mailed me links to verify voter reg and polling place location and give voter rights protection advice. Without a high-tech phone or wireless internet device available on election day, I was forced to rely on OUR VOTE, the command center phone numbers in Freedom U and Friends, and the Law offices down town to give straying voters the right info. We all know our polling place and reg status, but there were over 100 million voters last election, and a good number of them weren't high information voters, but deserve their rights. Probably 70 million were on our side or amenable to us, but it's a tough nut to crack, coordinating an outreach pre-election to that many people. Our orgs weren't cash-rich enough to provide the high-tech tools in the field to help us help the voters, and I saw a E.P. volunteer in Ward 25 - 2,3 trying over and over to load a freezed-up votespa (heavy traffic or GOP skulduggery, who knows) into his smart device phone.

Not insurmountable problems, but difficult to solve from a cash and coordination pov.