[direwolf]

Originally Posted by flylock shox

Voting problems abound.

There could still be a lot of ugliness over the next couple of days or weeks as the legitimacy of the democratic process comes under fire.

Man, what a mess. It's amazing that the most powerful, technologically advanced country on earth can continually allow this kind of crap to happen. This is some serious 3rd world bulls**t, and it's clear that the GOP has their filthy fingerprints on all of it.

From the article above:

In Georgia, voters waited more than four hours to vote at an elementary school in suburban Atlanta, where some voting machines were not working at the start of the day. Reports of broken machines also surfaced in New York and Arizona.

“This was voter suppression at its finest,” said Takeye Sneeze, 35, a truck driver who said she watched 100 voters leave Annistown Elementary School after discovering the voting machines weren’t working. Sneeze said she arrived at 7 a.m. to discover a long line already formed. Voting didn’t start until after 11 a.m.

In North Dakota, a voting-rights lawyer said dozens of Native American voters were being turned away because of issues with their identification. Poll workers were rejecting identification issued by tribal officials, advising voters not to initial ballots even though the law requires it and discouraging voters from casting provisional ballots when they arrived without proper identification, according to Carla Fredericks, director of the Indian Law Clinic at the University of Colorado.

“After I caught a voter who was being denied his right to vote and told him to go back in and request a set-aside ballot, the election worker told me I was interfering and need to leave,” said Fredericks, a member of the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation, located in central North Dakota.

Complaints also emerged of voting machines flipping voters’ choices in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Texas and Illinois, and of voters with limited English proficiency in the Houston area being blocked from bringing an interpreter with them to vote, as required under the Voting Rights Act, according to civil rights groups.

In New York, Corey Johnson, the speaker of the New York City Council, said the voting precincts were hampered by broken scanners in all five boroughs. Voters stood in lines with ballots in the rain — soaking the ballots and further complicating the process of using electronic scanners.

“I vote at the gay and lesbian center in Greenwich Village,” said Johnson. “Typically I’m in and out in less than five minutes. But today, the lines went inside the lobby, outside the courtyard and around the block. I waited in the rain in the alley for over an hour to vote.”

Johnson said the city had higher than average turnout in the primary and in the 2014 midterms, and officials should have had more or better equipment in place.

Accusations of intimidation also surfaced Monday when the Department of Homeland Security announced plans to run a “crowd-control” exercise near a Hispanic neighborhood in El Paso Tuesday — the hometown of Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who is challenging Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in a closely contested race in Texas.

On Tuesday morning, U.S. Customs and Border Protection abruptly canceled the exercise after critics raised concerns about voter suppression.