[Text of Tweet: George Takei: If you are turned away at the polls because your name is not on the register, don’t walk away. Say this: I REQUEST A PROVISIONAL BALLOT AS REQUIRED BY LAW.
Don’t let them steal your vote]
Additional info:
“Provisional Ballot Laws are laws that require a provisional ballot upon verficiation of the idenity of the voter if a voter fails to present proper identification at the polls or when registering before voter registration deadlines.”
I just got done with a 3 hour training class on Monday about being a pole worker (in the state of California) and this is very important.
we will ask for your name and address twice. there are two lists. the white list may not have your name but the pink list most likely does. If your name is not on that second list and the pole worker says you cant vote tell them you want to vote provisionally then call the local registrar of voters (the number should be posted in there) and report that pole worker because WE ARE SUPPOSE TO GIVE YOU THE PROVISIONAL BALLOT UNPROMPTED AND THERE ARE VERY FEW CASES WHERE WE CAN DENY YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE!
Also, regrading providing ID’s you are not required to show any unless asked for it and we must point out to you, on our paper list, that you have “ID required” next to your name. when you need to show it and what counts as ID varies from state to state but in CA you only need it when you vote in a federal election for the first time
In my part of Pennsylvania, here is how things ought to go at the polls:
You are asked your name. A poll worker finds your card in our box of cards and gives you your card. Next you go to the person with the list, who checks the list to see if there are weird circumstances. The most common one is ID REQUIRED, if you haven’t voted at that location before; this is the only case where you should be asked for ID. There are a few other notes on the list but they are rare. You sign the list and then we take you to a booth and set up your ballot.
If you aren’t in the box or aren’t on the list we can help you figure out why. We’ve had people come to us when we’re not their voting location, and then helped them figure out where to go — this is actually pretty common among people who recently moved to the area, or among people who don’t vote often. They go to the closest place, which isn’t always the correct place.
If you’re in the right place but still not on the lists, you can say you’d like to vote provisionally, and the Judge of Elections (who is basically in charge of the poll workers at a location) will help you out.
I KEEP FORGETTING THEY’RE BIPEDAL
A featherless biped?
Diogenes:
THEY ARE WHAT???
so i’m riding the elevator up to my apartment when the emergency phone in the elevator starts ringing
and i just stand there for a second because this thing is like thirty years old and has never rung or even been used from what i know
but eventually i answer it thinking maybe something’s wrong with the elevator?? it’s an emergency phone it’s probably an emergency??? i dunno
except i shit you not it’s a telemarketer
a telemarketer that’s as confused as i am when i finally interrupt him mid-spiel to inform him he has the wrong number and then interrupt him again to explain further that “uh, no, seriously, this is an elevator phone. i’m standing in an elevator. talking to you. on the emergency phone. i really think you got the wrong number”
“oh,” says telemarketer guy.
“yeah,” i say.
there’s some mutually-confused silence.
“so, this is my stop,” i say. “i gotta go.”
“oh,” says telemarketer guy.
“good luck,” i add, because telemarketer guy seems like he’s having an existential crisis. and then i hang up on him, because he’s having an existential crisis and won’t actually end the call, and because again i’m talking on an elevator emergency phone and, you know, this is my stop, i gotta go.
i’m just a big fan of the tone in which the ending was told
a shame when the only “fresh produce” inner city families recieve is rotting nutrients found in corner stars. check your privilege brain, it may not be expensive but sometimes it’s inaccessible.
Also $11 is a lot of money for some people? That could go to a larger amount of longer-lasting food, like how much soup, beans, pasta, and rice could that buy? What if you need a new pair of work pants or extra gas money?
11$ is some people’s food budget for the week, AND they have to get enough calories to survive 10-12 hr workshifts on their feet. that means rice and ramen. fresh seasonal peaches and plums are the very definition of luxury for most working people.