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Three simple rules for voting this November 2; assuming of course that you want your vote to count, and to count for whom you support:
1. If challenged by “watchers”, ignore them and go straight to the election officials and report the incident. By doing so, you put responsibility for the challenge on an official and public basis, and those who challenge you will have to give a reason for so doing. They most likely do not have one, other than preventing you as a Democrat from voting for John Kerry, or more importantly, against George W. Bush. If you let them engage you in conversation outside the hearing and sight of those actually responsible for polling at your precinct, they can and will try anything to keep you from voting Democratic, including, I have no doubt, physical restraint. TAKE IT INSIDE!
2. Read the ballot and the punchcard (if your precinct is not practicing touchscreen voting) very carefully. Now with Bill Moyers on Friday, October 29 revealed that in Cayuhoga County, Ohio (an almost completely Democratic area), to give just one example, the order of the presidential candidates on the ballot book is reversed on the punchcard used to register the actual vote. Anyone who automatically and thoughtlessly follows the name of John Kerry over to the corresponding punchcard location and “punches it out” will be registering a vote for George Bush. This ballot will not be employed in heavily Republican areas of the Buckeye State known to be favorable to Bush.
The same caveat applies to those who will be voting with touchscreens: Read the ballot very carefully. Then read it again. Then, just to be on the safe side, once again. MAKE SURE YOU KNOW FOR WHOM AND FOR WHAT YOU ARE VOTING.
3. Get to your polling place early, and plan to spend as much time as it takes to register your vote the way you want it to be counted. The watchers, challengers, to use their correct term, the Intimidators, will be there solely to keep you from exercising your most precious right as an American, the right to vote for whom you choose. You must be prepared to fight for this right on Tuesday. They most certainly are prepared to fight to deny it to you.
1. If challenged by “watchers”, ignore them and go straight to the election officials and report the incident. By doing so, you put responsibility for the challenge on an official and public basis, and those who challenge you will have to give a reason for so doing. They most likely do not have one, other than preventing you as a Democrat from voting for John Kerry, or more importantly, against George W. Bush. If you let them engage you in conversation outside the hearing and sight of those actually responsible for polling at your precinct, they can and will try anything to keep you from voting Democratic, including, I have no doubt, physical restraint. TAKE IT INSIDE!
2. Read the ballot and the punchcard (if your precinct is not practicing touchscreen voting) very carefully. Now with Bill Moyers on Friday, October 29 revealed that in Cayuhoga County, Ohio (an almost completely Democratic area), to give just one example, the order of the presidential candidates on the ballot book is reversed on the punchcard used to register the actual vote. Anyone who automatically and thoughtlessly follows the name of John Kerry over to the corresponding punchcard location and “punches it out” will be registering a vote for George Bush. This ballot will not be employed in heavily Republican areas of the Buckeye State known to be favorable to Bush.
The same caveat applies to those who will be voting with touchscreens: Read the ballot very carefully. Then read it again. Then, just to be on the safe side, once again. MAKE SURE YOU KNOW FOR WHOM AND FOR WHAT YOU ARE VOTING.
3. Get to your polling place early, and plan to spend as much time as it takes to register your vote the way you want it to be counted. The watchers, challengers, to use their correct term, the Intimidators, will be there solely to keep you from exercising your most precious right as an American, the right to vote for whom you choose. You must be prepared to fight for this right on Tuesday. They most certainly are prepared to fight to deny it to you.