ok the Kerry campaign was calling people to ask if they knew where their precinct was and if the person had any questions. Large numbers of people did not know where their precinct was and therefore you told them. Many many people where given misinformation about polling places and hours of operation and so on, not by the Kerry campaign, and the people who did not vote early and tried to vote on election day on their way to work or on their way home where in many cases shut out by this tactic. You can say they should have voted early, but why should they have to?
The challenges, well, that is where a poll-watcher says he does not think a given voter is eligible to vote. Overwhelmingly challenged voters in Albuquerque were in the Hispanic precincts. The NM Kerry campaign was being run by a group of airheads who had decided that the Hispanic vote was in the bag (not) and so there were no Democratic pollwatchers over there. We had a LOT of calls about such things. Now, challenged voters could file a provisional ballot, but these were the ballots that disappeared or were invalidated, along with the absentee ballots filed by the yuppies who wanted to make sure there was a paper trail for their vote, ie the people who felt that Bush stole the previous election, who presumably were NOT republicans. By the way, attempts at a recount were foiled by a requirement that a million some dollars be paid in advance towards the cost of the recount -- the Green Party and I think the Libertarians took that one to court and won, but only recently, years too late to matter. Just rememeber though, every vote counts ;) >What do you mean? > >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:208964 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
