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DEL.ICIO.USEvans on long voting lines: ‘We can’t think this is a good sign for November’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
State Election Board member Randy Evans, who earlier expressed concerns about a lack of poll workers today, had this to say to our colleague Ben Smith about the long lines being reported:
“When Walmart sees lines, it will consider the possibility that it does not have enough cashiers. As we now see lines at the polls in Georgia, unacceptably long lines on a primary day (as opposed to the general election) with a very short ballot, we can’t think this is good sign for November. It is not enough to be thankful that voters showed up. Instead, there needs to be an active effort to accommodate the large numbers of voters who do show up so that they will be more inclined to come back again.”
Comments
By Aaron Burr V. Mexico
February 5, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this
And while we’re at it…how about a paper trail instead of electronic vote machines counted by a company that has close ties with Mitt Romney.
By Robert
February 5, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this
How about this… stop the waste of time filling out a form then showing and I.D. then moving to the next person. One person can check my I.D. and off I go it took 4 people to check me in today when one should have been able to do the job.
By Deborah Aziz
February 5, 2008 5:07 PM | Link to this
I’d be happy to work the polls if I could find out how. I did so down in Americus, Ga and had a blast. Heck, I’d do it for free and take a day off of my FT job even.