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Last edited Tue May 21, 2019, 11:57 PM - Edit history (1)
We went to vote today in the KY primary. (For some reason KY does its state office primaries in the off year). In the past we have voted in a meeting room of our City Hall. For reasons unknown to us, our polling place was moved a few blocks away to a High School Gym along with several other precincts. No biggie.
We got there sometime after 3:00. We walked into the gym where the poll workers appeared to greatly outnumber the voters. After we voted, I got to chatting with one of the poll workers. Our precinct has 11,000 registered voters. By the time we voted we were #52 and #53 to have voted. The polls close at 6:00.
Seems like Democracy is dead.
On edit,
Update: Looks like every candidate we voted for won! So maybe #52 and #53 helped after all!
Karadeniz
(22,516 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Sad but true. If the majority did, the modern Republican Party would have died two decades ago.
BigmanPigman
(51,591 posts)despite only 33% approval rating?
AJT
(5,240 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Most people are at work at 3:00. Could that be it?
It's baffling why so many people don't vote or take an interest in politics.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)It sounds like KY does it this way to depress votes.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)poll workers said they already had 20 percent of voters in, this was at 2.
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)We're a cranky bunch.
TwilightZone
(25,471 posts)pecosbob
(7,538 posts)#GOTV #Talibama