Because there's a certain strand of nonsense that seems increasingly out of place over on the old Workblog.

9th May 2012

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“We’ve seen political party observers who are not precinct officials. They can ask to be observers. They want to challenge and confront and it’s a problem for our precinct officials.”

He said the reason for the confrontations varied, from calling up the board of elections to complain that there wasn’t a chair for them to sit on to pushing officials to get people to show ID at the polls.

“They have been clogging up the phone lines and getting mad at us,” said Sims. “People have to state their names and addresses and we check them. But they are challenging officials to make them show ID. They have an agenda, the ones that we’ve been getting trouble from.”

When asked whether the trouble was coming from the groups for or against Amendment 1, Sims said: “Put it this way: we had zero Democratic party observers.” He added: “I’ve probably said more than I should.”

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I’m always sad and angry when a democratic vote makes a bad, prejudiced decision which is going to sit like a stain in the history books. But when one side is fucking with the system itself to achieve it? I seethe.


Via the guardian.

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