SPECIAL WEATHER ADVISORY

[melannen]

MY FELLOW EAST COAST AMERICAN VOTERS

(who have not already been successfully blocked by those undemocratic fuckers* who are messing with registrations)

VOTE AS EARLY AS YOU CAN.

Normally I'm a bit of an early voting skeptic, but you guys remember the derecho, right? AFAIK (and I'm going in as an election judge starting tomorrow, so you'd think I would know) my election board's total disaster-zone-voting-plan is "if there's an ice storm on election day, the governor might extend voting hours, at which point you open this sealed package which you have never seen before and have not been trained on."

Hopefully they will come up with something better within the next few days, but considering their general level of flexibility and logistical genius? Um. And I can tell you right now they don't have enough generators for all of the normal voting locations.

If we have the same sort of clusterfuck* we had with the derecho, which is sounding like a distinct possibility, and then you put the clusterfuck this election was already going to be on top of it...

You will be very, very glad to have already voted before the worst of the storm hits, if you were able to vote before the worst of the storm hit.


*yes, I am still watching The Thick Of It! I even posted a story to ttoi_kinkmeme. I bet you couldn't possibly guess which one was me.

Comments

[cyprinella]

Really wishing VA had early voting. *sigh*

[alexseanchai]

Early voting: not a thing here.

I hope any problems caused by the storm will be resolved before Election Day. And failing that, they bloody well better provide more voting opportunity as soon as the problems are resolved.

[lannamichaels]

Alas, my state does not do early voting, and I do not think "the weather" is a legitimate reason for absentee balloting (yes, we need a legitimate reason for one here). :(

[hannah]

Ah, if New York state allowed for early voting.

[beatrice_otter]

Look at it this way: at least you still have polling places. Oregon went to all-mail-in ballots before I turned 18, which I really hate--so much easier for unlawful interference in voting! So much easier to defraud!

I just moved back to Oregon after school in PA and I forgot to change my mailing address for my ballot before they went out, so I drove over to the county courthouse and got a new one. They didn't ask to see my ID, they didn't ask me what the address the old one had been sent to or what my permanent address was, nothing to check I was who I said I was. They just slapped a label with my name on the outside of the return envelope the ballot goes with and handed it over to me. Even if they have some way of cancelling the old ballot so nobody could take it and vote twice, what if I wasn't who I said I was? Anyone could have gone in there and gotten my ballot!

[derryderrydown]

Thanks to you, I am in love with Malcolm Tucker.

MALCOLM TUCKER.