There are long lines where a decision has been made by the powers that be to SUPPRESS THE VOTE. Just because it doesn’t happen to you doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen anywhere.

I live in a very affluent California precinct. I never have had to wait as much as a minute–there are plenty of machines, plenty of poll workers, plenty of free parking. I’m sure you (as well as plenty others, including me) have seen places where voters have to wait in long, multiple-hour lines. Why do you think these happen only in inner city, minority neighborhoods? How many times have you seen people in mink coats waiting in lines? Add two and two, my friend. Voter suppression is NOT a fantasy of the media. There’s a big bad world out there beyond the fringes of your comfortable precinct.

“Ladies and gentlemen, uh, we’ve just lost the picture, but what we’ve seen speaks for itself. Washington D.C. has apparently been taken over — ‘conquered’ if you will — by a master race of giant Democrats. It’s difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive Republicans or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them. The Democrats will soon take over. And I for one welcome our new Democratic overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted independent blogger, I can be helpful in soliciting more fat cat donors, and rounding up others to toil in their mandatory volunteer service corps.”

Its somewhat ridiculous to think there will be 10-hour waits anywhere simply based on the logistics of it. Early voting sites serve the county at-large, but, at least here in NC, each precinct serves a much, much smaller amount of people. Considering that a sizeable portion of that small amount has already voted, I fail to see how people will have to wait that long.

Will there be a line? Most likely, yes. But rarely do people not have to wait in line for anything. It is why I’ve waited until Tuesday to vote as opposed to the other five members of my immediate family. Our precinct isn’t large and I fail to see myself waiting for some absurd length of time.

I’m never one to call out the media, but I will now. They are creating a mass hysteria that I think is completely uncalled for.

Lets look at Durham County, since that is the example mentioned about the magicians. They had seven early voting sites that served 97,697 people. Durham County also has 58 precincts with over 700 pollworkers to serve the remaining 77,151 voters.

As a side note, I’ve watched friends work on down-ballot races in desperate need of volunteers. While it’s great that so many want to help Obama, they should ship some of those volunteers to those other races rather than having them do pointless stuff like belly-dance for voters.