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[Chris Calloway <ifoufo AT yahoo.com>]

--- Jamie McLendon <domcasualties AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> "If there's hell below, we all gonna go."

republicans obviously hate jesus so much they pray on
streets corners, stone women at wells, push camels
through eyelets, make the children stand in the back,
and change money in the temple. ann coulter is a
traitorous false prophet who hates America and takes
the lord's name in vain.

but if you live in benighted durham, you went 67% for
kerry and had 72% turnout. a shitload of horny virgins
are waiting on you in the afterlife. i may live in a
country where over half the people actually chose a
facsist republic for their form of socialization, but
i have a lower concentration of kooky neighbors in my
corner of it than if i moved to one of those fern
countries to which my pals keep talking about jumping
ship unless they get their way. pros advise me to move
to a kooky korner and subdue it if i really wish to
make a difference. i'd need a job if i did and i think
the main occupation in such kooky korners is cattle
rustlin or something similar for which i have little
talent.

Re lines: There were 99 people in line at Club Blvd
school at 6:30am yesterday, out the door and down the
sidewalk. It took half an hour for that last person in
line at 6:30am to vote and walk out of the polling
place. Most of the voting happened between 6:30am and
8:30am, and it wasn't until after 8:30am that there
wasn't a line. Between 8:30am and 2pm, there was a
steady trickle of voters. Between 2pm and 4pm, things
were pretty dead. There was an uplift between 4pm and
5pm, a taper between 5pm and 6pm, and nearly nobody
between 6pm and close at 7:30pm.

So heavy morning turnout, no lines after that. This
happened despite several people flushing my precinct
all afternoon. Basically, most all the people who were
gonna vote, had voted by midmorning, and the flushing
was kind of redundant. The early voting did its job in
relieving election day stress. Those people who
thought showing up early would avoid the rush were
wrong, but probably got through line faster than if
they'd early voted. We could have spent a lot less
time and effort flushing if more people had early
voted and could be crossed of the list. We had so many
flushers that we sent most of them to precincts where
they were more apparently needed. The PACs and
campaigns were stepping all over each other due to
prohibitions on coordination.

There were no challenges in my precinct and there were
27 provisional ballots compared with 698 actual
election day ballots and 646 early ballots. The
provisionals were mostly sure they should have been on
the rolls except for the few who had moved into
precinct. They could have avoided the problem by early
voting, and generally had no idea they were going to
have a problem when they showed up on election day.

the chief judge was surprised and a little worrired by
the number of 6:30am voters, but he handled it like a
champ. all but one of the election officials at my
precinct, all of them experienced election official
veterans, were of the opinion that early voting had
helped make election day much easier and less chaotic.
the remaining one missed the crowds because she became
bored when the lines thinned out. we could have stood
having one more BOE official at the precinct to direct
traffic. there were 8 official altogether. there were
5 curbside voters. in a brilliant stroke of irony, the
election official who took care of the curbside voters
in my precinct was a neighbor of mine who had his leg
blown off in wwii. so he hobbled out to the curb on
his prosthetic leg. he insisted that he be the one to
handle curbsides. i think he's got one sick sense of
humor.

Someone who has details of a certain Durham PAC
leader's election day altercation, please email me
privately.

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