Election 2008 Open Thread

[luna_k]

Y helo thar, neglected political blog. I suck. But I come bearing linkspam!Happy Voting Day! Tell me your voting stories, come spam me with pics of your polling place, or just pull up a chair in general. This is such an exciting day! Even though I'm sick (having thrown up 4 times this morning, ugh) I'm so excited because I think my state (Virginia

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[koljeff]

I don't know if this (or this sort of thing) will make national news at all, but here's my story from today:

I was hanging out at the union office where the GOTV doorknocking in Mankato was being organized earlier, and I heard one of the staffers talking to someone who was at the polling places for Minnesota State University's dorms (and then talked to her about the story afterwards): apparently the GOP has teams of "challengers" out with the sole mission of challenging people's registration at the polls - and they're instructing the judges to turn away first-time voters who are trying to register with someone vouching for them. (You know, since MN requires either an ID with current address or an ID and a bill or someone from the same precinct to vouch for you.)

What they're claiming is that the voucher and the vouchee need to live together - you need to bring a roommate or someone, or it doesn't count. Which is clearly not the way the rules are written.

The DFL folks are mounting challenges of their own (well, not challenges so much: the "challengers" that the Dems have out are there with the express purpose of defending challenged voters), and they have a lawyer out on the ground working on it, but yikes.