How Long Will Americans Have to Stand in Line to Vote THIS November?

[UncountedMary]

This week, in a moving tribute to Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones - who did more than just listen to her Ohio constituents when they told her of their systematic disenfranchisement during the 2004 election - Congressman John Conyers brought the issue of election integrity to the Democratic National Convention saying, "Never again would we see justice left undone. Never again will votes go uncounted. Never again will the voice of the people be ignored."

Also this week, the New York Times published "No One Should Have to Stand in Line for 10 Hours to Vote," an editorial about the criminal voter suppression practiced in Ohio during the 2004 election.

Long lines, too few voting machines, voter intimidation, voting machine failures, voters purged from rolls - these are just some of a long list of problems encountered in Ohio on that day in November four years ago.

Watch The Story of Election Day 2004 in Ohio: How Long Will Americans Have to Stand in Line to Vote this November? to learn about what happened in Ohio four years ago - and what could happen again this November. And then prepare to fight back.

Election Day 2004 in Ohio is a perfect illustration of the problems inherent in our electoral system and the process in which massive disenfranchisement becomes the norm.

(The Story of Election Day 2004 in Ohio is a clip from UNCOUNTED: The New Math of American Elections)

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Solution: Let the republicons vote on Nov. 5th

And the Democratic voters on Nov. 4th.

[thunder rising]

2. VOTE EARLY!!!! No excuses. Call your supervisor of elections and ask how/where in your county

Just get it done

[offog]

3. Scary, eh?

I too worry about this "massive disenfranchisement (becoming) the norm." I hope that if/when the Dems get back into the White House, they'll come up with some legislation to address these problems.
It isn't just that Republicans will resort to dirty tricks to win, and write off huge sections of the population. I think that the poor, blacks, Hispanics, immigrants, etc. just don't register as real people on the Republican radar. Up here in Canada, conservative viewpoint stuff in the newspapers has some pretty blatant poor-bashing. I've seen plenty of griping about how those non-taxpaying free-loading losers vote the wrong way. Every time there's a protest about homelessness or poverty, the reaction is "We pay taxes, you don't, go to hell." I suspect that a lot of this poor-bashing is code for minority-bashing.

[yourout]

4. Depends on whether it is a Republican precinct or a Dem precinct.

Pukes....less than 20 minutes.
Dems.....more than 20 minutes.

[diva77]

5. please check out my response to another post; and if you know any lawyers

willing to take action...well, then...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x507385#507418