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16:24 - If you only look at one link about this Election Day...
http://www.zombietime.com/ny_broome_st_polling_place_11-2-4/
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...This is the one.
Don't let these photos be covered up. They need to be shown far and wide.
Yes, it's true what Frank J. says:
Of all the things I hear going up to today's election, the one that annoys me the most are people mentioning "voter intimidation." Monitors are placed to make sure made up people like Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy, and Eminem don't vote, and somehow that's "intimidating."
(Say this in whiniest voice possible) "Oh! Someone looked at me funny! I can't vote now!"
People died so you can vote, dingus! If you can be intimidated from the vote, then you don't deserve it!
And I keep hearing how it's worst against minorities. So let me get this straight: the Republicans are sending some white guy in a suit into a minority district to intimidate all the black people.
Either I'm missing some major mechanics here or people are just being whiny little bitches. I know what answer I'm leaning for.
...But this is really, really beyond the boundaries of what anybody ought to consider reasonable.
I had planned not to post anything about the day's goings-on except for my own personal experience; but considering what an absolute world of difference apparently exists between what voting in suburban San Jose and voting in Lower Manhattan looks like, I really have to call attention to just how bad it's gotten, in case anyone think my neighborhood's experience is representative of the whole country.
Apparently it's nearly as bad in other places too. We'll be hearing more details soon enough, from first-hand observers...
(Via LGF.)
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Brian Tiemann
