Arkansas Blog

I voted at the train station this morning and there was a sample ballot posted for the dems and the greens but none for the republicans. I pointed this out and they began a search and said "it was there earlier...."

Sounds like the usual dirty tricks.

A girlfriend of mine votes at a Baptist church in Saline County and reported getting the evil eye and general rude treatment after asking for a Democratic ballot. I can't imagine what would have happened if she'd asked for a Green pary ballot... probably an excorcism.

This is another reason why endorsement of candidates by election officials (Sec. of State, county/circuit clerks) gives an appearance of corruption.

I know that this is nothing new - the Republicans experienced this in earlier years, but that's still no excuse. As I said before, some people believe that the Constitution only allows two parties (in some counties, only one).

It's only because we have an incredibly horrible nut-case as president right now that people are deluded into thinking that the two major parties are different. Every four years in stirring oratory, they tout "change," but it is only for changing the faces of the people filling their own pockets.

They're different, Jim. They're just equally putrid.

Boy, that sucks. I didn't have any problem at all in my precinct... they offered me my choice of the three ballots and wouldn't let me out the door without my "I Voted" sticker and a Hershey's Kiss. I was too late for the cookies, dagnabit.

Cookies?

The comments above only fortify my position in having lived across this country that voting should never take place within a house of worship --- anyone's house of worship. They should only be in public settings like schools [how good it would be for kids beginning in elementary school to see adults standing in line to exercise the vote], firehouses, community centers, city halls, malls, etc. This is a backward policy to allow voting in any religious institution. It is intimidtion, particularly if you have to enter a religious institution that is knowingly hostile to your religious tradition or lack of tradition.

I too voted at a precinct in Little Rock that only asked Dem & Republican. I made a stink and got my Green ballot, but it was obvious that they hadn't bothered to offer all three at all today. This pary has worked too hard in finally earning primary recognition to just have it mocked, marginalized or ignored completely.

Cookies. The lovely ladies who mind the polls in my precincts bake cookies. I used to always vote in the morning, so I assume I missed out this time.

Wouldn't you go to the polls if you were promised fresh baked cookies?