Early Voting in Palm Beach Co,FL is INSANE!

Did Castor visibility Saturday afternoon at the Delray Beach Supervisor of Elections office. The line was around the building and had the atmosphere of a street fair. Kerry vols (and voters) vastly outnumbered the Bush vols (only 2) and Bush voters. Easily 10-15 Kerry Vols...Seniors for Kerry...Jews for Kerry...FDP was there...ACT was there...it was fantastic. Average time from getting in line to exiting the building was 3-4 hours!

So I decided to early vote on Sunday. Arrived at my place in line at 11:50...exited the building at 2:28.

You would think that Theresa LePore would have used the last 4 years to figure things out. You would think that she'd come up with a better way than making people play musical chairs all thruout the lobby and down the long, winding hall that eventually led to the actual voting office. You would think that they would have had more than ONE computer and ONE open phone line to streamline the process of verifying each person's eligibility.

Yeah...you would think!

Plain and simple, this was a clusterfuck. The majority of people that waited were elderly. In their wheelchairs, walkers, oxygen masks. They waited patiently and didn't complain. Several of the people sitting in line - myself included- implored the deputy in charge to let the elderly that were seriously sick or had mobility problems to go to the front of the line. It was heartbreaking to see what those folks had to endure to vote.

When I got in the actual office, I requested a paper absentee ballot...since the first one I requested several months ago never arrived. While I waited for my ballot, two voters had machine malfunctions. And one of the workers muttered under her breath 'here we go again'.

All in all, an eye-opening experience. And something that really didn't need to take so long or be as drawn out as it was if only LePore would have done her job right in the first place.

But of course, that's only my opinion