CDR: Re: Courts interfering with election

[Tim May]

At 9:32 PM -0500 11/7/00, Harmon Seaver wrote:
>          The real question is why weren't there enough polls to take
>care of the number of people who want to vote -- it's not just St.
>Louis, the same thing is happening in many places. In most states,
>however, the polls are just staying open. If you have a line of people
>waiting to vote, how dare they close the polls? The people should take
>the polling officials outside and hang them from the nearest lamppost if
>they try to close the polls.

And what is wrong with simply closing the lines at the closing time. 
Put a cop or other official at the end of the line and say: "You 
arrived at 8:01. Polls are closed. Everyone ahead of you will be 
allowed in to vote, but you are too late."

--Tim May
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