Arkansas Garland County Election Commission Chairman Charles Tapp Shutting Down Polling Stations

[Gates9]

I posted this yesterday, does anyone know what happened with this?
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"A voting drama looms in Arkansas' Democratic senate race between incumbent Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Lt. Gov. Bill Halter.

The battleground? Garland County, a populous county that sits 55 miles from Little Rock.

It was the most heavily populated county that Halter won in the May 18 primary. On that day, the county had 41 polling places open, but for Tuesday's runoff, there will only open two in order to save money."

-Suzi Parker
Contributor, Politics Daily

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/06/08/arkansas-halter... /

[Lost4words]

1. the fix was in apparently! what a surprise, not!

[Art_from_Ark]

2. Save money, my ass

And one of those polling places was in Hot Springs Village, which was a gated community when I was down there.

[Gates9]

3. So did they open more, or just leave the number of polling stations at 2?

[Art_from_Ark]

6. Apparently, only two polling stations were open in the whole county

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4419328

[Coyote_Bandit]

4. Ummmm......

I spend enough time in Arkansas to claim residency there, was born and raised there, have family and extended family there, and can document connections in the state that extend back to the early 1800s.

Only 14 of the state's 75 counties have a population of over 50,000. The population of the entire state is less than 3 million. The population density over the entire state is about 50 people per square mile. Eleven counties have a population of less than 10,000 people. An additional 27 counties have a population of less than 20,000 people. An additional 15 counties have a population of less than 30,000 people. Most of these smaller counties have extremely high poverty rates - rates that sometimes exceed those of the poorest Appalachian areas.

I can't help but note that nobody is complaining about the difficulty some of these folks had voting in the limited number of polling places. Those folks in Garland county were no more disenfranchised than these folks.

[glinda]

5. To save whose money? The Corporations?