{"id":6608,"date":"2008-11-02T17:19:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T00:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6608"},"modified":"2008-11-02T18:36:47","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T01:36:47","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-november-02-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6608","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ For November 02, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

2 days until Election Day. <\/p>\n

I recommend that everyone watch the video<\/a> that is our ‘Feature’ article this morning. This is what our election officials think of the voters? How can this woman compare standing on line to vote with standing on line for an I-Pod or baseball tickets? Amazing! <\/p>\n

Lines for early voters in Georgia were reported to be 8 to 10 hours long last week. Lines in other states were hours long with thousands of voters standing in those lines. And now election officials across the nation are warning that lines will be long on Tuesday. What do the long lines do? They serve to turn voters away from voting.<\/p>\n

How many of those voters who stood on line during early voting or who will be standing on line on Tuesday will lose wages from jobs they are not working at so they can vote? Is this not a type of poll-tax? Is it not voter suppression and disenfranchisement? <\/p>\n

Our nation cannot allow this to be the norm. Investigations need to be held to find what are the causes of the bottle-necks and what can be done about them. If federal law needs to written and passed then that must happen so never again do voters have to stand on line for hours and hours so their voices can be heard. It is amazing that voters feel so strongly about exercising the franchise of voting that they would be willing to suffer as they have but they should never have to make that choice again….<\/p>\n

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