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Reference pages if there's trouble at your polling place:
http://www.aflcio.org/issuespolitics/politics/myvotemyright.cfm
http://www.moveonpac.org

Also, call 1-866-OUR-VOTE if you have any problems while AT the polls as the Election Protection 2004 coalition can dispatch
volunteer legal aides to assist or offer you "vote support" over the phone. Write this number down and put it in your wallet/purse. Give it to friends, family, coworkers and peers.

You can see incidents as they are reported to the hotline at the VoteProtect.org Web site.

Finally, if you come across any voting issues reported on weblogs, livejournals, mailing lists, discussion boards, chat rooms and the like, make a report to VoteProblem.org and post the URL to the incident mention in the Description field.

I'm off to work the polls. Best of luck to everyone at voting your choices and getting your vote counted!

Please gack & crosspost the aforementioned hotline number and URLs. Everyone needs to know.

Two hours on...

It's quiet here now, but the line is amazingly long.

When I arrived, along with another lawyer from the campaign, they wouldn't let us in - some issue about them not having our names on the lst that had been submitted two weeks ago - and the clerk threatened to call the police if I was upset. Not a nice or sane thing to say to pregnant!woman. She also threatened to have us removed if we spoke to the people in line. Two voters waiting in line whipped out their cellphones to call the cops to have us arrested, as well, which was very scary. Finally, at about 710, 45 minutes after I'd arrived, the clerk came back and said we could go in - she'd gotten our names confirmed with someone who had a clue at the supervisor's office. The first person she'd spoken to was an idiot.

So now I'm inside with my cashews & water bottle, and I don't think I'm going to end the day in jail. The line is long but people are patient and the room itself is a nice temperature.

Wishing you all the best of the day - good weather, no harrassment and an easy experience.

More later if anything is interesting.

Want to see the dog who wandered into our precinct?

Check him out! So funny!

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Anyone know who El Puma is? Supposedly he's a latin american singing star, but anything released after 1998 doesn't easily ring bells for me...

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Anyone know who El Puma is? Supposedly he's a latin american singing star, but anything released after 1998 doesn't easily ring bells for me...

Anyhow, he's in the line at my precinct now, waiting with everyone else...

I was...

Just interviewed by Swiss 24 radio. Anyone want to check them out live or online-streaming and see if my interview gets on? Your choice of t-shirts from cafe press if you get me a digital of it...

Andrew says...

Exit poll numbers have dribbled out. Manm if the numbers hold, especially in Pennsylvania and Minnesota...

Unleash the paranoia!

Note from the polls...

The clerk here at our poll is rather intimidating. She's threatened to have us arrested, thrown out and banned from the room, but she always relents. She won't let us talk to voters here in the room but finally promised that if we left to help anyone, she'd let us back in.

And worst of all, neither she nor the election advisor (who communicates with the supervisor's office) will tell people that they can vote a provisional ballot. It's only after people have become frustrated and leave, or if they know to ask for it when they talk to the clerk, that they can get it. But so far, only one person's walked out without voting. Not a terrible record for a double-precinct.

Twelve hours on...

Man, am I tired.

I want popcorn & mac&cheese.

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I am squeeful over my precinct's numbers, but I cannot share the count.

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Oh thank GOD for Jon Stewart. I really needed this show...