one-stop early voting

In January 2012, the Wake Board of Election UNANIMOUSLY approved requesting enough funds from the Wake County Commissioners to have 25 to 30 One-Stop Early Voting sites for the 2012 General election. The County Commissioners only approved roughly HALF the money. The BOE staff worked up a plan for roughly half the total number of hours for early voting we had in 2008, and 1/3 the sites originally asked for.

Saw this on Facebook today - http://charmeck.org/mecklenburg/county/MediaRoom/PR/Pages/BoardofElectio...

Mecklenburg is getting 22 locations and 2741 hours of voting.

Mecklenburg County has only slightly more voters than we have in Wake, but we turned out nearly 30K more voters in 2008 than they did. Yet somehow our County Commissioners feels we only deserve HALF the sites and hours for Early Voting than Mecklenburg is getting this year.

Can someone explain that? If that's not a Republican attempt at Voter Suppression, I don't know what else it can be!

Well my wife and I voted today. It seemed quick and painless, almost fun even. But we did not think about the long-term consequences. We voted against Amendment One, you see, and can already feel the sanctity of our marriage slipping away. I ordered Legends of the Fall on Netflix and put Logo in my favorite channels lineup. My wife, the poor dear, is learning that peeing standing up isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Tomorrow will be the most difficult part. Not only do we have to tell the kids that we're gay but we also have to set aside hours indoctrinating them into the gay lifestyle. Then there's my Dad. He voted against as well and will have to give up his bachelor lifestyle to go out and get gay married.

Luckily this is happening all across the state so it will be easy to find partners to gay marry. In the meantime I'll live to live with the cruel fact that my wife is now open to lesbianism yet that no longer interests me as it once did.

By attempting to shut down early voting sites:

Suzanne Rucker, chairwoman of the Cumberland County Republican Party, told the Board of Elections on Tuesday that early voting costs too much money to justify all of those locations, especially when turnout is normally poor during the one stop period.

Ralph Reagan, who was chairman of the local GOP in 2008, was a big critic of early voting. He called it a burden on election officials and an opportunity for ill-informed citizens to vote. He hated Sunday voting, too, which he said benefited Democrats over Republicans in Cumberland County.

Or, could it be because those "ill-informed citizens" put Barack Obama so far ahead during the early voting of 2008?