Update: Posted this via phone before. Here are more details. Location was Delaware Precinct 2F at 140 S. Washington Street (Zion A.M.E. Church). Holloway was the precinct captain. When we pulled up a woman flagged me down to ask a question. She said she recently moved and didn’t have anything with her current address on it. I told her she didn’t have to and to come back in. She parked again and came in behind us as we were talking to Holloway. We asked him what happened and he said her address didn’t match so he asked her if she had something that matched the address on the rolls. I told him she didn’t need to. As long as she had proper ID and she was registered and on the rolls and at that location she could vote. He then asked a worker to write down her drivers license ID number on the rolls and she was allowed to vote.
I asked him why he didn’t do that to begin with and he didn’t really have a good answer. He seemed to want to play innocent in his asking for documentation with matching address. The woman was allowed to vote after having been completely exasperated. He never told her she couldn’t vote or that she had to have matching documentation, but asking for it does infer she needs it. This should be watched out for. This woman nearly drove away without voting. She actually said out loud “If I don’t vote today I don’t vote today”. I said “If you don’t vote today you don’t vote and that’s not happening”.
Be vigilant.
Original post via phone: Chasing down a voter protection issue in Delaware. 140 S Washington polling place being told to vote provisional if ID doesn’t match rolls precisely.
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Nearly 2 million employees, remember. You’d think this would merit a front page story or maybe even a blog post:
According to a digital recording of a Wal-Mart meeting made by a Wal-Mart employee and reviewed by the WSJ, the meeting leader told employees that their wages may be reduced to minimum wage for up to three months before a contract is negotiated, that union authorization cards violate workers’ right to privacy by including their Social Security numbers on them and that if a small unit within a store votes to unionize, the entire store will be unionized.
“The statements are not correct representations of what the law would require even under the current law,†said Jeffrey Hirsch, a labor lawyer in Boston. “It would be a violation of the national labor relations act to say those things.â€
Wal-Mart said that the three comments don’t reflect Wal-Mart’s understanding of the law and weren’t included in its training.
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Tim is all over The PeeDee and Bizzy Boy Blogger Tom Blumer this morning. It seems the two are up in arms over ACORN. The problem? 5 fraudulent voter registrations. Out of 75,000 submitted.
5.
Of 75,000 submitted.
They find 5.
What’s that? Like .006%? Bizzy himself ought to know that this is a pretty damn good error rate. You might even describe this as “near zero”. General Motors would. Hell, even Honda would.
Yet the cries are loud from Wingnuttia today. You’d think the Plain Dealer would be objective, but apparently they’ve been overtaken by wingnuts too. Their plea is clear: “We won’t have this registration of poor black people who might vote for Obama”.
Meanwhile, in Wal-Mart land, they are having forced meetings with employees telling them not to vote for Obama or the evil union might come and get their low paying jobs with no benefits!
How many employees does Wal-Mart have? Oh, nearly 2 million is all.
I shit you not.
What happens when you search for Wal-Mart on the PeeDee? It asks you if you meant “Awl-Mart”. Again, I shit you not:
Did you mean awl-mart?
Number of matches at the P to the D on Wal-Mart? 7.
Number that talk about reports of Wal-Mart managers and employees complaining of meetings where they are told not to vote for Barack Obama? 0.
In what fucking alternate reality universe does a major paper and wingnut blogger go absolutely apeshit over .006% while ignoring the possibility that nearly 2 million people are being harassed to vote in what can only be described as pervasive illegal activity? The only universe this makes sense in is overly partisan hackery.
These people are fucking crazy. And hypocritical to a degree that is breathtaking.
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