Looks like the repukes in my red county are jacking with people at the polls

[rainbow4321]

Not a surprise...repukes have been showing signs of being pissed throughout this whole pre-election process, all the way back to our voter registration drives. Guess they didn't figure county Dems would also show up as poll watchers!! Collin County is historically a 70% repuke -30% Democratic during past elections.
From North Texas (Collin and surrounding counties)

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/102908dnpolvoterproblems.3e529d6.html

One polling station in Collin County improperly turned away scores of voters. Workers at another asked voters for more identification than the law requires. Party officials elsewhere have quarreled over the validity of some votes.

•At one polling station in Collin County, election workers demanded photo IDs from every voter.
•At another Collin County station, voters whose names were not listed in the state's new electronic voter database – even some with registration cards – were turned away and told to come back later.
•In Denton County, Republican and Democratic officials are at odds over how often poll workers should issue provisional ballots.
•In Rockwall County, a dispute over the treatment of some voters at one polling place has drawn scrutiny from both political parties and the elections administrator.

In Collin County, the treatment of voters as reported runs counter to state and federal law. "Even though judges have been taught differently, some seem to be saying, 'I'm going to do it my way,' " said Dan Dodd, chairman of the Democratic Party of Collin County.

Patty Seals, deputy elections administrator in Collin County, said the county has warned some election judges about their practices. All poll workers are now complying with the law, she said.


On edit: There has been a huge surge of Dems in primary voting, registration drives, and GOTV. The repukes know it, ans they are trying to derail it--at the polls.

[RufusEarl]

1. I tried to take a picture of my electronic voting screen,

and was told i couldn't take any pictures of the voting machine screen. This was in Tarrant country last Tuesday, i even spoke to a lady from the main office and she affirmed the decision by the poll worker.

I've never heard of this law until Tuesday, watching Amy Goodman tonight Bad from Brad's blog suggested we use video cameras to video the whole process. Apparently that's against the law in Texas!

Peace!

[fudge stripe cookays]

3. This is when a mess of brave people need to start risking arrest

to document screen flipping. What is the point of it being illegal? What are they afraid of? Let's check the election code and figure out when it changed (and who sponsored the legislation). Anyone willing to bet it's some asshole like Joe Barton or DeLay?

I'm wondering where in Rockwall County (my former area, although I was technically in Dallas County, the county line ran about a yard from our house)

And Collin County? Who'd a thunk it in beloved ole Plano? :eyes:

[blogslut]

2. Texas is going to break 2004 early voting totals

http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/earlyvoting/index.shtml

Mind you, these are the totals from the top 15 counties:

Overall early voting 2004 - 2,412,952

Early voting as of Oct 28, 2008 - 2,390,051

:)

[rainbow4321]

4. From Collin County: Dems and Independents are out in full force

In SIX days:
107,000 votes have been cast...Dems 24,992 - 33%,
GOP 17,694 - 23%, IND 32,827 - 44%...129 polling locations.(this only totals 75,000 because the rest aren't in the system). Votes will count but not getting into VAN


Watchers and greeters have a local hotline number to call to report problems at the poll.