Election 2004: Vote Early and OftenCalm before the Shit Hits the Fan
Sunday, October 31, 2004, 04:09 PM
My day as a verified voting person starts tomorrow at 8 a.m. because of a last minute scramble for folks at the national call centers. Which means... yes, dear reader, it means that I probably won't sleep at all this week and that I'll be even more backlogged on posting in a couple of days. I'll try to sneak away and post some updates, though. I imagine there'll be plenty of news coverage; I already saw some coverage of our work.
Here's the wrap-up for the past few days.
The new story seems to be election-day challenges of a voter's elegibility at the polls. Lawsuits range from those trying to limit the number of challengers from either party that can appear at the polls, to controlling the way challenges are handled procedurally so that the rest of the people beinhd in line don't have to wait a chunk of time for each challenge to be resolved, to blocking such challenges completely. And just to add to the mix, lawsuits about Ohio challenges are now being filed in New Jersey.
These lawsuits are all expected to be settled Monday. Let's see how long that expectation lasts.
When someone writes a book about this later, no one is going to believe it.
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