We used to vote in precinct 38. Then they consolidated our precinct and we vote in precinct 28 now. Of course, we got NOTHING from DEMOCRATIC County Clerk Beth White’s office informing us of the precinct number change — as apparently was the case with most of the other people in line for precinct 28. Looks like yet another fucked up election day courtesy of the Marion County Democratic Party and the incompetent Beth White.
Get inside and some poll worker was trying to blame this on the Mayor. I said, excuse me, the Mayor is not responsible for setting up the polls. She tried to recover by saying that the Mayor approved the Clerk’s plan. I said, look, the Mayor is an executive. He signs off on things that are other people’s responsibility to plan and vet. The responsibility for cluster-fucks at the polls (although I was polite and did not use that terminology) is the Clerk’s. She said, well, that’s why I’ve been telling people to call the Clerk. I left it at that, but hopefully I convinced her that she can’t blame the Mayor for something that isn’t his responsibility.
Anyway, the reason people in line were pissed off was because there was only one poll book, and a very slow poll worker digging through trying to find people’s names. In the old days, every poll got two books. Which would have been a good thing here, because a bunch of people didn’t appear to be registered, and it would have made things a lot faster to have two books so that people who actually WERE registered could move along faster. I heard someone actually try to blame this on the ID requirement, in terms of “well, we actually have to look people up and compare the ID.” Give me a break. You ALWAYS had to look people up. At least now you don’t have to ask them how they spell their names, because you have their ID in your hands.
The poll Inspector was on the phone taking care of his day job, which really frosted me. When my Dad was inspector in 38, that shit would NEVER have been countenanced.
The only real catharsis involved was voting for Mitt Romney just to stick my finger in McCain’s eye, and scratching all the school board candidates. I think by definition school board members are among the biggest assholes ever to hold political office. Fuck ’em all.
Oh, in other news: I was the 167th voter in the precinct at 9:45 AM. This may be a really big turnout. I pity the people who haven’t voted yet in 28.
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How the hell did Andre get elected again?
I really thought that Andre and Woody Myers were going to split votes and that Ovidloogie would win the remainder. Weirdness.
I’m still not sure if they’ve decided who is going to lose to Mitch.
You got me, Jeff. Sounds like there weren’t enough Operation Chaos operatives voting down-ballot in HD 86.
My best guess is that the Meridian Hills moneyed-yet-lefty contingent didn’t show up to vote. I keep hearing that all Elrod has to do is turn that constituency and he can win in November.
Also I must note sadly that my friend Ken Morgan did not fare well in his quest to unseat Teresa Lubbers in SD 30. But he got enough votes to make his presence known.
Personally I think the Dems are split too much to make much headway against Mitch.
Over in Warren 7 we had it arranged where the judges would do the initial check of ID, check the challenge list, then proceed to the clerk’s table and the clerk would look up the name and have the voter sign and hand over the ballot.
The clerk would not need to hold up the line to question ID or call over an inspector to question an ID.
The DEMOCRAT ward chairman came and said that Judges were not allowed to see ID, that is up to the poll book holder. I checked with my Ward Chairman and he said don’t argue about it we’ll deal with it later. I looked it up on the Clerk’s website and it reads “JUDGES SHALL CHECK VOTER’S ID”. Plain as day. Even the idiot Democrats have no clue as to what’s going on.
We need to a> Get Beth White out of office in ’10 b> Support the SoS candidate in ’10 so we can get those poll inspectors back!
Oh, Michael, the way you had it in Warren would imply intelligence. In Wash 28 the one judge did the whole thing. Check the challenge list, BTW? What challenge list?
The other judge just handed you your ballot and kibitzed.
The young lady behind me was appalled because nobody was standing next to the scanner to help people feed their ballots and, er, generally make sure nobody was tampering with the machine. I thought that was kind of odd, too.
Like I said, when my Dad was the inspector, that crap wouldn’t have washed. But the people he had under him were actually competent, which helped a lot.