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Old 05-21-2013, 10:40 PM
 
Location: Atlanta
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I really think the youth vote turned this one out for Peduto. Most of my friends who wouldnt normally give a rats ass about the primaries were rabid to vote for him today.
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Old 05-22-2013, 04:20 AM
 
Location: Virginia
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Just wanted to pop in and say congrats to the winner!
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Old 05-22-2013, 05:08 AM
 
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Just wanted to pop in and say congrats to the winner!
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Old 05-22-2013, 05:40 AM
 
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I had business yesterday in Greentree around 7AM. I forgot how bad traffic is in the South Hills. Thought I was smart and took Liberty Avenue to get home. Traffic was backed up due to Jack Wagner standing at the entrance to the Tubes with a big Vote for Me sign. People were slowing down as they went by him. Too bad I was in the wrong lane, might have swerved to take him out.

Where's ScottPriester when you need him?
i think this may be what cost him the election!
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Old 05-22-2013, 05:48 AM
 
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also the tax-evading guy lost in wilkinsburg, so that's nice!
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Old 05-22-2013, 06:43 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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When I got home last night there were two voice messages, one left in the late morning and one around 5:00 from someone saying that they were at my polling place and that they saw I had not voted yet, and wanted to remind me that it was election day, and the polls were open until 8:00. Did anyone else get a call like that? Is this a new kind of GOTV? I've received general reminders about it being election day from campaign staffs or robocalls before, but I've never been personally stalked like that. I stopped on my way home from work, so by the time I got the messages I had voted, but the more I thought about it, it feels kind of creepy. Or am I just being overly sensitive?
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Old 05-22-2013, 06:48 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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When I got home last night there were two voice messages, one left in the late morning and one around 5:00 from someone saying that they were at my polling place and that they saw I had not voted yet, and wanted to remind me that it was election day, and the polls were open until 8:00. Did anyone else get a call like that? Is this a new kind of GOTV? I've received general reminders about it being election day from campaign staffs or robocalls before, but I've never been personally stalked like that. I stopped on my way home from work, so by the time I got the messages I had voted, but the more I thought about it, it feels kind of creepy. Or am I just being overly sensitive?

That is creepy. It's never happened to me. I didn't know they could go in and look at the voter rolls like that during an election. Maybe they can't actually look but they figured with turnout so low, they could just call people and assume they hadn't voted.
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Old 05-22-2013, 07:28 AM
 
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One person handing out literature literally blocked me from entering the building while trying to hand me a pamphlet in support of their candidate. I refused to take it and threatened to call the police. There needs to be a law that blocks those vultures from hanging around polling station entrances.
There is in some states. Some places you can't even wear a button or a t-shirt with a candidate's name on it and it is explicitly written into the law. Most places there are laws that say you have to be a minimum distance from the entrance to the polling place. The difference is, here that distance is 10 feet and other places it's 100 (or "at all on the property" if it's a public place in one state, or "100 feet or within 10 feet of any voter if the line goes past 100 ft" in another). This shocked me when I first saw it in Pittsburgh, I'd always taken it for granted that it wasn't done but I guess the laws against electioneering here are pretty lax.

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Old 05-22-2013, 07:44 AM
 
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When I got home last night there were two voice messages, one left in the late morning and one around 5:00 from someone saying that they were at my polling place and that they saw I had not voted yet, and wanted to remind me that it was election day, and the polls were open until 8:00. Did anyone else get a call like that? Is this a new kind of GOTV? I've received general reminders about it being election day from campaign staffs or robocalls before, but I've never been personally stalked like that. I stopped on my way home from work, so by the time I got the messages I had voted, but the more I thought about it, it feels kind of creepy. Or am I just being overly sensitive?
That's a pretty standard GOTV procedure. The voting lists are public knowledge so the poll workers have to show them to the campaign workers if they ask. Obviously how you vote is private but how you are registered and when you voted is not.
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Old 05-22-2013, 07:51 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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The voting lists are public knowledge so the poll workers have to show them to the campaign workers if they ask.
That list is a huge, thick binder. How are they getting names from it fast enough to process and get to a call center? Are they allowed to photograph it or do they walk in with their own list and check-off those who already voted? Even if they do it quickly, I don't see how you do this without interfering with people who came there to vote. If anybody understands the mechanics of it, I'd appreciate information.
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