I've been watching the aggregator at Placeblogger.com and it's
amazing: wall to wall elections from local blogs across the country. A
few of my favorites:
Albany
Eye: “Can a Voter Get a Table Dance?” Cincinnati
Beacon: “Tuesday Morning Disenfranchisement:The Ballots Are Already
Screwed Up In Kennedy Heights” Baristanet:
“Montclair’s own Eric Blumrich, a freelance animator and web developer,
is a web star for his mashup parody of Conrad Burns and the Vonage
incident.” Milwaukee
Rising
— “Received this today…. I’m assuming the letter is genuine, even
though it wasn’t signed. Nothing like a little intimidation and
supression effort to squelch a rising controversy, eh?: Recently you
have been publishing on the internet and other places a series of
defamatory statements about State Senator Tom Reynolds. You are
accusing Mr. Reynolds of using his campaign fund for personal utility
bills.” Bluffton Today:
“I have a secret to tell. I’m 41 years old and this year - 2006 - is
the first time in my life that I’ve ever voted.” LAist:
“You really should vote tomor OMG A BUNNY!@” They’re giving out CDs
to voters who can sustain attention on the task at hand — voting. BrewedFreshDaily,
Cleveland, OH, gets an email from an election observer:
“Cuyahoga County is filing criminal charges against me because I asked
some volunteers for the Vote Count Protection Project to call some of
the Election Day Technicians, and ask them if they would be willing to
write down some of the Voting Unit election results on a
data-collection form, to used for vote-count verification purposes…If
you would like to support me tomorrow as they throw the book at me—they
said I was being charged with criminal “obstruction of business”, ORC
2921.31—please come to the Cuyahoga Board of Elections at 1:30pm.
Thanks so much, Victoria Lovegren.” Arch
City Chronicle, St. Louis, MO: No Cloning group has 1000 volunteers
at Polling Places
