2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Tonight I witnessed a shameful display of voter supression in Minnesota. [View all]
I just got back from witnessing the worst voter suppression I have ever seen. The Minnesota caucus I attended was an absolutely shameful embarrassment and some senior members of the Democratic Farmer Labor Party should resign over this mess.
In 2008 the caucus site was already overcrowded, but this year they had the brilliant idea of eliminating our overcrowded caucus site and combining it with another caucus site.
It was absolute chaos and I can guarantee a lot of potential voters turned away when they saw the traffic jam.
We had to park blocks away and walk, thankfully we were able-bodied because a disabled person would have never been able to find a place to park anywhere near the entrance.
When we got inside the halls were so crowded we could barely move. When we got to the sign-in table there was nobody staffing it, just a pile of papers spread across the table for us to hand write our names on.
After we wrote down our names we walked to a person handing out ballots, she asked us whether we signed in but there was no verification. It would have been extremely easy for a person to get multiple ballots and there was no one watching the ballot box which was a trash can.
Yes, you read that correct we voted by throwing our ballots in a TRASH CAN.
Nobody was guarding the trash can, we just threw our ballots in there and hoped they were not tampered with.
Apparently Republicans are not the only party engaged in voter suppression tactics, tonight the leadership of the Democratic Farmer Labor Party of Minnesota created a chaotic environment that no doubt kept many people from voting.
Some people should resign over this shameful act of voter suppression, I have never been more angry at my state party.