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JeffLieber over at DailyKos has a great idea on how you can help make the long lines on Tuesday easier to handle.
There WILL BE lines on election day.Long lines.
Some of those lines will be inevitable... some will be due to historic turnout... and SOME will be due to the design of those still hoping they can exhaust the will of change.
And despite the fact that everyone has been warned, people are bound to get frustrated and tired and cold and hungry and bored out of their fucking minds to the point that they will think, "What's one more vote?"
And that's where we come in.
As a last act of giving (by you who have no doubt already given so very much), go out and buy a half-dozen of those two dollar umbrellas, walk to your local polling place and offer them to those who are out there standing in the rain. Ask them, when THEY are done... to pass the umbrella on.
Or rummage through that drawer in the basement with the forgotten winter hats and gloves and (after running them through the washer and the dryer) offer them, at the local college, to some students who didn't QUITE think the whole process through.
Coffee for the weary. A snack for the hungry.
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GoThen · 857 weeks ago
If it's a really long line, you could even step in and replace ten or twenty voters for a while. Make a list of their names and send them shopping or whatever for half an hour. They don't have to wait in person, do they?
Peter Zenger 62p · 857 weeks ago
Once someone is at the polls, if they leave, you can not know that they will come back.
DocJess 71p · 857 weeks ago
There is something else people can do, also. Most local committees (D and R) set up stations outside the polling places. Usually there is coffee in the morning, water in the afternoon, and snacks. You could call your local committee and see what they're doing, and sign up to help.
At my polling place, our table will be setting up about an hour before the polls open. In addition to coffee and donuts, we'll have some folding chairs. Therefore, if there are older people, or people on crutches, we'll take a chair to them while they wait. In answer to "won't other people let someone on crutches go to the head of the line?" the answer is ...maybe. Be prepared.
On Election Day, if you're not working there are TONS of things to do to help: the campaigns, the locals, the polls themselves.
Chad_Nielson 57p · 857 weeks ago