Standing on line to vote because there is a large turnout is fine. Any student of
queuing theory knows that people can cope with an even slowly moving line. My
complaint was that things in some precincts (4-5 in my district alone) shut down
completely because they ran out of ballots. Copying ballots at Kinkos seems a dubious
practice at best and the info from those ballots had to be hand copied onto official
ballots to be fed into the machine. And all of this had to be done with judges from
two different parties for each ballot. Again in one precinct there was only one
republican judge making a balanced work load impossible. Anyone voting at 7:15 in the
morning (probably after having had breakfast) did not see the anger and frustration of
the people (who were probably cold, wet and hungry) at these polling places at about
6:30 PM when they couldn't even get an estimate of when the Ballots would arrive. If
somebody tells me this was the scene in Edina or Wayzata , I won't comp!
lain quite so loudly. It is certainly appropriate to find out what happened ; who
made what wrong decision and plan how this can be prevented in the future. Just as
it might have been nice if someone had looked at ballot problems in West Palm Beach
several years ago.
