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Re: The "Fix" is in on Prop. 56 and 57

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From: Tim May
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 04:47
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<bearclaw-6FA2DD.19463825022004@newsclstr01.news.prodigy.com>,
<bearclaw@cruller.invalid> wrote:

> In article <qp7%b.29773$hv6.3468461178@twister2.starband.net>,
>  "Roger Schlafly" <rogersc1@mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> > Democrats and Republicans send observers to the polls.
> > Nothing wrong with that, as long as they are just observing.
> 
> As a poll worker in several California primaries and other elections, I 
> can tell you that the only time I personally ever saw anyone campaigning 
> at a polling place was when some drunk guy who kept yelling "Reagan for 
> President! WhooHoo!" showed up to vote. Yeah, we let him vote if he 
> promised to be quiet. That was at a precinct in east San Jose.
> 
> BTW, working the polls is very hard when it isn't deathly boring. Treat 
> the poll workers nicely, they are your friends.

No, they _aren't_ my friends. Most of them ought to be sent up the
chimneys.

And the "fix" I was referring to had nothing to do with LWM staffers
"campaigning" inside the voting place but _everything_ to do with
mysteriously lost ballots.
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Subject: Re: The "Fix" is in on Prop. 56 and 57
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 20:47:02 -0800
From: Tim May <timcmay@removethis.got.net>
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