[Summit] Voting

[Jeffrey Cavanaugh]

Thank you!

Look people, you're not going to be interested in every thread that comes
 along on this list.  Lord knows I'm not.  Use your delete key, e-mail
filters, whatever and be nice.  We can all try to cut down on the noise if
we remember to consider if each thing we post is adding anything or is just
a restatement of something already said, but we will all slip on this point
too, it's human nature.  I'm just glad each comment isn't coming by snail
mail!  There'd be no trees left.

The fact that people fight and die to protect our freedoms is all the more
reason our elected officials should be held accountable to make polls
accessible to the voters  and that includes reasonable wait times. They
fought and died for our right to VOTE and that is what we are talking
about!  I agree that 30 to even 60 minutes in a major election year is not
unreasonable but we have had reports of waits in the neighborhood of 2+
hours which is not.

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Emlyn Addison <noisyblocks at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Soooo in agreement with you Gloria!  With veteran's day coming up lets not
>> forget those who sacrificed more than just a little time standing in line
>> to defend threats against us and our form of government.  We only have to
>> recall 9/11 and WW2, for examples of direct attacks on US soil resulting in
>> reaction by our military.  If all I do is stand in line to help defend our
>> democracy, or at least ensure it perseveres, not bad.
>
>
> Then we're in agreement: the next time someone complains about property
> crime, overnight parking or community gardens, we shall remind them that
> our troops fought to protect the right for thieves to score our stuff, for
> cars to clog our streets and for tomato plants to share our recreational
> spaces and that we should say nothing and bear it in their honor.
>
> I don't diminish their sacrifice, but our military-political history has
> no bearing on why neighborhood voting times jumped 400%.
>
> Emlyn
>
>
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