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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSeeing Twitter reports of high turnout in AL, AND broken voting machine in pro-Clinton polling place
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1 working voting machine at Frazer polling place. Long line waiting with filled ballots in hand. Poll worker says 2nd machine broke & the crowd is bigger than expected, that they've reached out twice for another machine
Brad Harper is a reporter in Montgomery.
According to the replies there. the Frazer polling place would be Frazer United Methodist Church, and Frazer precincts went 52-44 for Clinton.
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Seeing Twitter reports of high turnout in AL, AND broken voting machine in pro-Clinton polling place (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Dec 2017
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Girard442
(6,075 posts)1. Election theft in plain sight. nt
librechik
(30,674 posts)2. The usual voter suppression--as usual.
what a nightmare.
kimbutgar
(21,157 posts)3. Then the votes have to be counted by hand
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)4. I only have twitter on my tablet
Could someone maybe start tweeting this to Tom Perez?
pandr32
(11,586 posts)5. They are hoping people waiting in line will have to give up
Bad knees, kids to pick up, a need to use the bathroom, hunger, a job, etc. are all things that would cause people to have to bail.
There should be a quick response to fix or replace machines with problems. Lots of time to prepare for this.
They probably have extra machines in Republican strongholds to keep people there and voting.
brush
(53,784 posts)6. Yep, the usual repug dirty tricks. They save all the broken machines and put them in black/dem...
polling places.
peacebuzzard
(5,174 posts)7. Rigged election, if this is true
This is unacceptable