Velda City Fiasco

Velda City, a community in St. Louis Country Missouri had people wait up to 9 hours in line on November 4, 2008 because of inadequate polling stations, broken computers, poor paper balloting, and an excessively small building in which to vote.

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• accessibility
• equipment
• lines
• poll_worker_problem
• polling_place
• videothevote
• videoyourvote
• voter_id
• voting_machines

[ReliableInsider]

To a lot of Americans, losing a full day's pay is a lot to pay.

They waited for nine hours. That begins to seem very much like a poll tax. (And poll taxes on voting were prohibited in 1964 by the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.)

[ReliableInsider]

I'm just glad this didn't happen in a -black- neighborhood or else this would have seemed like classic VOTER SUPPRESSION.

The man's right. "That's not right."

And St. Louis was the city where Obama held a rally and 100,000 people showed up.

There are some politicians, even some seasoned politicians, who would have a little trouble drawing a crowd that size.