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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: D. Long who wrote (2536)6/29/2003 11:46:50 AM
From: Ann Corrigan   of 793888
 
Just returned from vacation, so my response is hopefully better late than never.

Yes, I agree that's the best way to make the point that voters should never be harrassed by candidate's suporters.
The workers should be directed to stand a distance back from poll entrances, so that voters can quickly enter & cast their ballot without the need to run the literature gauntlet. Each party is also permitted a watcher inside the polling place. Their job is to check off registered voters for their particular party. Those who do not show up are called before 8pm. That to me seems like another questionable practice that only discourages a certain number of citizens from voting at all. Their names fall off the lists after failing to vote in consecutive elections.

There is another tradition that probably differs in each area of the country. That is the practice of the Repub & Dem parties paying their poll workers each election day. Unenedorsed party candidates are in that way discouraged from running since they are up against deep financial pockets. Quality individuals who are interested in public service fall by the wayside if they do not happen to be "endorsed" by the local party leaders. It's 19th Century back-room politics at its worst.
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