I am of the opinion that this is not a HUGE issue, but definitely inneresting.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/201 ... election/#

http://www.newsweek.com/alabama-senate- ... ods-746190

Brittany Bevelle, a web designer and illustrator, started tweeting this morning about being marked “inactive” at her local polling location. “Folks who have lived here longer than I've been alive....inactive,” Bevelle wrote on Twitter. Her thread got people’s attention, and has already been retweeted thousands of times.

people just don't want to work polling booths in bad neighborhoods. so they work with what they work with.

voting paperwork is so menial and easy to do.

The group has also collected reports of people being prevented from voting by the state’s photo ID law because their IDs have expired.

The complaints coming to these civil rights groups mirror the reports coming from journalists and voters on the ground in Alabama.

More war-like verbiage used in reporting. It's an election, not a firefight, and you're some asshole on Twitter, not a Marine.



This is bullshit. You can't present something implicitly accusatory like this and just leave it to hang in the air and expect people to take you seriously. The guy said in subsequent tweets that he didn't see the cops doing much of anything, didn't even mention running warrants again, and had to correct a tweet from "ACLU is dispatching staff here" to "ACLU is investigating".

[ Hence 6-8-10 hours voting lines are becoming increasingly more common.

You have some citation for this?

You have some citation for this?

You have some citation for this?

Ain’t no one got time for that

https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/long-voting-lines-explained

Or you can simply Google "voting wait times". Or watch any network other than Fox on major election days.

Your source doesn't mention an increase in incidence of long wait times at voting centers. It only states that they happen (duh) and what can be done to prevent them.

It's funny how you attempt to muddy up any exchange I have on certain topics in which you weren't previously involved with your typical stances. Just how much space do I take up in your pointy head?

Yes, I muddied an exchange because I pointed out the source you provided to justify your claim of "[ Hence 6-8-10 hours voting lines are becoming increasingly more common" didn't actually mention extended voting line wait times becoming more common.

You're one step away from being LTG-esque in your wrongness. In fact, considering your path, maybe just change your handle to "ltgesq" to better facilitate making fun of your idiocy.

It's funny how you will be the only poster who will attempt to debate the trends in voting problems. I'd ask you why that is, but you have an amazing inability to answer a question.

How about just honestly admitting your motives?

What awful things won't JLN defend that conservatives do/say? Most people draw a line somewhere but I've yet to see one from JLN.

I happen to particularly enjoy deflating that puffed up chest of yours, especially when you make it so abundantly clear that you can't stand being challenged on anything.

What am I defending, here?

Whatever gives you your jollies I guess.

I'm sure you'll say that you don't defend ANYTHING but you always have your lawyer cap on debating the semantics of some REALLY awful stuff that "conservatives" do or say. Your endurance for posting about things you aren't defending is 2nd to none.

This is the same guy who argued that the causes of secession weren't actually the causes of secession. This after being provided with the actual declaration of secession documents which proved him wrong.

What the hell are you talking about? I don't think that was me.

Taking issue with someone intimating voter suppression by police without a shred of evidence is not an argument over semantics. Nor is pointing out that someone's source doesn't actually back up their claim.

Why are there longer wait times to vote and why does it seem to be a race thing? Are the precincts too large and not enough voting machines? My precincts have always had two machines, two clerks, two or three judges and my longest wait has been 30 minutes or so and that was the exception. Usually I'm in and out in 10 mins tops. And I live in the strongest Democrat county in IN outside of Indianapolis. So if they wanted to suppress votes they would try it here.

I'm generally curious how it can happen, in Indiana you have to show ID to vote and then sign the voter book and then head to the machine. What are other states doing that can take up so much extra time?