NP - "Them rats ain't a-gonna fk themselves."

[David Morris]

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Rocking_The_Vote

In Texas, where a strict voter ID law is in place for the first time in a
major election, the state emailed counties Tuesday morning to inform them
that the statewide voter registration system was down. According to Janice
Evans, elections director for Brazoria County, it remained down at noon
local time. That meant poll workers were unable to access information about
a voter's registration status, likely leading many voters to have to cast
provisional ballots. A spokeswoman for the Secretary of State's office
downplayed the problem. "They're experiencing problems with the system,"
she said. "It's one less option for voters to find their polling place.
It's now working intermittently." And of course, a large but unknown number
of voters will be disenfranchised by the ID law. Several Texans spoke to
msnbc Monday about the massive bureaucratic hurdles they went through as
they tried unsuccessfully to get ID. Here in Harris County, the state's
largest county, machines at several polling places weren't working. At the
West Gray site near downtown Houston, where only two machines were working
for much of the morning, some voters said they waited an hour and a quarter
to cast a ballot. Another nearby site was down entirely for the first hour
of voting due to electrical problems. Maureen Haver, an election protection
activist with Common Cause Texas, said voters who had to leave because of
the delay weren't offered the chance to cast a provisional ballot.
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