Rachel Maddow has a wonderful piece on the issue Florida is having with voting lines.
I voted for Obama and against Florida’s prejudicial Proposition 2, which would deny same-sex partners any rights, in the first hour of the first day of early voting–my wait was only half an hour, so I was lucky. Right now I am off to give out water at the polls, to those who may not be so lucky.
Get out and vote, folks. Take snacks, maybe a lawn chair. If the line is long, please commit to staying in it. Let’s make a difference.
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I love Rachel Maddow. And she’s right on the money with that — it’s a tax, and it’s wholly unnecessary. Oregon has ZERO lines to vote. We have vote-by-mail, and we all had our ballots a few weeks ago. Today there might be nominal lines at the it’s-too-late-to-use-the-mail drop sites, but those lines tend to only take a few minutes to get through. After all, no one is doing anything more complicated at the front of that line than putting an envelope in a slot.
And thank you for your vote against Prop 2.