• GBU_28@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    It’s reprehensible that they closed the polling place.

    But three hours is a small, tiny price to pay to participate in democracy and potentially help tons of minorites and at risk folks avoid another trump term.

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      5 days ago

      With around 200 people ahead of me? It would have taken way more than 3 hours to even have a chance to get in the door.

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        5 days ago

        I acknowledged the issue with them closing the polls. But if you had gotten in, the time would not have been a waste. You dont know you won’t get in this time.

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          5 days ago

          I’m a live-in caretaker for an elderly man that has an out of state doctor’s appointment on the 5th, I won’t even be in the state that day.

          My hands are tied any which way you look at it.

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            5 days ago

            That’s completely different than the situation discussed above.ajd totally understandable.

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            5 days ago

            You couldn’t apply for an absentee ballot? Even in Mississippi you have an ironclad reason that you cannot be present on election day.