When my husband and I voted in northeast Ohio in the '04 presidential election, we waited in line--outside in the rain--for 4 1/2 hours to vote! If our young children hadn't been in school that day, we wouldn't have been able to vote. We've seen what a bad case scenario can look like on Election Day. (Especially when aided and abetted by then-Ohio Sec'y of State, GOP Ken Blackwell, who was hell-bent on supporting Bush and suppressing the Ohio Dem vote, but that's another diary entry.)
At the risk of sounding like a Chicken Little--but informed by my trying, 4 1/2-hour marathon experience at the polls 4 years ago--here are some suggestions for helping things go better this time.
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