Problems in the Polls in New York...Just One Booth?

Just One?

I heard that there are lots of problems occurring at the polls across the country, but New York might top the charts. Supposedly they have never had so many Black people come out to vote in history, and they were not prepared for the outcome at all. A lot of the polls have only one voting booth. That means there are hundreds of people waiting in line for one person to go in at a time. It is taking people over three hours to vote. Some people are leaving because they just do not have that much time in their schedule to wait. We are talking about the working class of our community, whose boss is not letting them miss that many hours of work.

Then the old people that are running the polls, God bless their souls, are not prepared to handle the crowds. They are panicking and it is becoming a mess. The crazy thing about all of this, is that you would think that the city would have planned for this mass amount of voters. I mean more Blacks have become registered than ever before. Even if they ended up not coming out and voting, you would have been on the safe side.

I think that the city is using the fact that they are not use to this type of turn out as an excuse. Any excuse to give us a hard time for voting. Takes me back to the days when we finally got the right to vote, and them fools did everything in their power to stop us.

Do better and may Barack Obama still win! For every win there are going to be trials and tribulations that come first.

What have been some of your experiences?
What have you heard about some of the polls in your area?

4 comments:

Boss Lady said...: You have to remember Guliani was Republican front runner and Bloomberg just made up the fact that he can do 3 terms in NY, so I honestly think it is there goal to keep the black NYC vote suppressed.

I dont know how true this is but my friend said in Brooklyn Barack's name is spelled wrong at the polls. they have it as Osama and she also said in Hispanic spanish language voting guides it has the date to go vote as Nov. 9th. I hope that is not true, because if it is, NY (my home state and City) has fallen to a new low.; November 4, 2008 3:54 PM
The Krimson King said...: Wow to the previous comment.

I was on edge at 7am this morning, ready for something crazy to happen. Although my station in Central Jersey was pretty packed, it was a smooth process. I was in and out in about an hour.

However at about 8am, I heard one of the ladies that was working the sign in sheets say, "...We already have more voters today than we did in the last general election in total..." I was glad to hear that.; November 4, 2008 4:45 PM
The Socialite said...: Yeah I am happy to hear that so many people are going out to vote! It makes me proud that Barack could get so many people to the polls. And proud of my people for actually exercising their right to vote!; November 4, 2008 6:42 PM
blackwomenblowthetrumpet.blogspot.com said...: Hey there!

I would encourage every person who had problems at the polls to take the time to file a written complaint. Do not let those problems do unreported!

Yes...Barack has won but we STILL have problems in the process that must be addressed....we can't lose sight of our accountability in making SURE that these voting day tactics that are designed to disenfranchise black voters will END!

Peace, blessings and DUNAMIS!
Lisa; November 5, 2008 3:17 AM