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This headline in today’s Los Angeles Daily News, combined with pervasive voter apathy might reveal the answer [or part of the answer] to long lines at polling stations: Experts Concerned System May be Overwhelmed by Big Voter Turnout.
I’ve been stunned every time I see excruciatingly long lines at polling places across the country on television.
Stunned and pleased. Pleased, in the hope that Americans have finally woken out of their eight-year coma induced by hypnotic lies and scare tactics spun by BushCo, and they’re waiting in those devastatingly long lines to vote Obama for Change; change from Republican domination.
I’m also stunned when I think about these long lines in relationship to not having early voting.
If a third or more of registered voters are voting early, what would the lines at the polls look like if there weren’t so many early voters?
It would be a colossal mess and utter chaos on election day, and as it stands, in some places it’s pretty messy as it.
Does part of the fault lie with election boards across the country who were too lazy and too apathetic to pay attention to the surge in voter registrations?
Let’s hope this puts an end to voter apathy and election board incompetence, and brings about some changes in how we hold elections…although I doubt it will.
Experts Concerned…: http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_10876711
