We cats are not attorneys, but we volunteered to serve as poll observers for the Obama campaign on Election Day. As part of the "Lawyers Bound for Justice" (LBJ) team, we were charged with protecting the vote and helping to make sure that everyone who came out to cast a ballot was able to do so.
We're happy to report that in our assigned precinct in Prince William County, Virginia — the epicenter of the epicenter, it turns out — elections officials were diligent, thorough, pleasant, and respectful of voters' rights. It was a long day, but we had to take very little action. When we did, the situations were quickly resolved.
So with this experience under our belts, you can imagine how amused we are by the reports that the Romney voter-protection effort was, um, completely screwed up.
The Romney reporting app failed, but there was so much more than that — which we know from checking our favorite corner of the paranoid right-wing universe, Free Republic. Get a load of these comments from Freepers who were attempting to monitor the polls for Romney last Tuesday.
"They sent out wrong info, never responded to requests, refused to pay for anything at all."
"I will tell you as someone who signed up as a volunteer — even McCain-Palin ran a better campaign internally. I was horrified in the month or two leading up to the election on the legal team efforts. Horrible."
"We got ridiculous e-mails all along that were sort of like fundraising e-mails and offered no direction, no plan, nothing."
"I tried to volunteer, just so frustrated that there was no phone number on the campaign site.... too hard to navigate. Just had to resort to e-mail, which only got me donation letters every day. :("
"Some of us lawyers at first were asked to spend a week in a swing state and asked for airfare to be covered and we would split the hotel costs with each other and go four to a room — and they denied us. Then we got fundraising e-mails from the legal team and offers of a sweepstakes dinner with Ryan or Mitt!"
"There were never E-MAILS ON WHAT WE WERE SUPPOSED TO DO!"
"I signed up as a volunteer to poll watch, at least six weeks prior to the election, maybe more. Never heard a peep from them."
"Even McCain ran a better campaign as far as the legal team went. WHERE THE F DID ALL THE $$$$$ GO?"
Goodness gracious. We cats wonder: If Willard Mitt Romney is supposed to be such a savvy businessman — why couldn't he properly deploy his poll watchers on Election Day? Axelrod, Plouffe and Messina have run rings around him. Which makes us cats PURR.
(IMAGE: President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act, 1965.)
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