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shipperxThis is INSANE! Absolute, total insanity. Look, I've voted at the same place for six years and I've never seen it like this. . . and then they screwed it up worse. First, I tried to drive to my polling place. It's in a housing subdivision near me. The frelling thing was backed up for MILES. All the way from Hwy 280 to the polling place (1 mi down the road) was bumper to bumper (and all the way BACK to Hwy 280 was blocked). So I finally got there, found a parking spot. Went in, and thanked God my last name begins with 'W' because the the U-Z line is always the absolutely shortest line every single time. HOWEVER, I got there and... nope, name not on the list. Huh? I've voted in this spot for 6 years and I haven't moved. Well, they've moved people around. Check with the woman at the next table. Woman at next table has a line of about 14 people standing around while she incessantly dials the phone trying to get through to. . .somewhere else. After 20 minutes of trying she FINALLY got through and rattled off the people in line's social security numbers to find their new polling places. Apparently, she explained, they had around 9,000 people registered to vote at this ONE polling place so they decided to create two new ones to try to decrease the people. The guy behind me said, "Well, that would have been great... if you had TOLD us first. It's not exactly helping now because all 9,000 are still having to come here first." (In her defense she said they'd sent out cards. . .in June. Who the frell pays attention to that in June?!
So I had to make it out, through the bumper to bumper traffic BACK to 280 to drive BACK home to a polling place less than one block from my house (a polling place that was damn near empty... no doubt because everyone was in line trying to get to the OLD polling place!)
Oh, and did I mention that it's FLOODING?!
So finally voted and 1 1/2 hours later, headed to work.
Note to idiot who made the little fire station at Cahaba River Road ON 280 a polling place: what kind of idiot ARE you?! No, seriously, who the hell thought it was a good idea to funnel a few thousand people through a tiny fire station that has no parking on THE BUSIEST COMMUTER HIGHWAY IN THE STATE?! Huh? Does this strike anyone as a good idea? 280 (flood and all) is a parking lot this morning.
Sigh. So finally made it in to work.
(And please no whacked out conspiracy theories about how Republicans are frelling up the voter system to disenfranchise voters. The theory wouldn't wash because I happen to live in one of the most consistently Republican counties in the country. This is nothing more than idiot bureaucrats thinking they were helpful and frelling up the system in the process.)
So I had to make it out, through the bumper to bumper traffic BACK to 280 to drive BACK home to a polling place less than one block from my house (a polling place that was damn near empty... no doubt because everyone was in line trying to get to the OLD polling place!)
Oh, and did I mention that it's FLOODING?!
So finally voted and 1 1/2 hours later, headed to work.
Note to idiot who made the little fire station at Cahaba River Road ON 280 a polling place: what kind of idiot ARE you?! No, seriously, who the hell thought it was a good idea to funnel a few thousand people through a tiny fire station that has no parking on THE BUSIEST COMMUTER HIGHWAY IN THE STATE?! Huh? Does this strike anyone as a good idea? 280 (flood and all) is a parking lot this morning.
Sigh. So finally made it in to work.
(And please no whacked out conspiracy theories about how Republicans are frelling up the voter system to disenfranchise voters. The theory wouldn't wash because I happen to live in one of the most consistently Republican counties in the country. This is nothing more than idiot bureaucrats thinking they were helpful and frelling up the system in the process.)
