Comments on: Voter Suppression Update – How You Can Help

By: baratunde aka jack turner

baratunde aka jack turner — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:41:36 +0000

great point. i did that in the sidebar, but have now updated the post with the numerical-only version as well. peace

By: JoyIA

JoyIA — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:22:01 +0000

Seems as if votes in AZ are being set up for suppression… 200K ballots won't be processed until TWO days *AFTER* the election???

http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelecti...

Reed said 827,380 Maricopa County residents had requested absentee ballots or had voted early as of 2 p.m. Friday. The county has seen 566,656, or 68.4 percent, of those ballots returned. There are about 1.7 million registered voters in the county.

Early ballots figure to create a significant delay in the compilation of final results. Officials expect that about 200,000 early ballots won't be marked or mailed early but instead will be walked into a polling place or will arrive via mail on Election Day.

Those ballots won't be processed until two days after the election, Reed said, and Maricopa County hopes to have all of them compiled by Nov. 21.

By: Anovelista

Anovelista — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:06:27 +0000

You know... chances are people will be calling in the heat of the moment from a cell phone when reporting any voter irregularities as they are likely to be on the scene. Thus, I think it would be helpful to list the corresponding numbers to phone numbers like 1-866-OUR-VOTE since the letters and numbers on a lot of cell phones (i.e. Blackberries) don't match.

I don't have a landline at home, but I just dug around in my closet for my old wall phone so I could match the numbers.

1-866-OUR-VOTE = 1-866-687-8683