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2 seniors (husband & wife) switched from Dem. to GOP to vote against Trump. They also commented, repeatedly, they'd never vote for Hillary Clinton.
A couple of others switched their registration to Independent, expressing disgust and horror at both parties, specifically Trump and Clinton. Nobody mentioned Bernie Sanders - I don't think they know anything about him. These elderly folks rely on cable TV for their news - are not on line.
As their local judge of elections, I have to be strictly non-partisan and can't express any political support or opinion one way or the other. But it was very informative to listen to their comments. I voluntarily go there twice a year to help those who have newly moved in to update their voter registration since they have new addresses and are in a new ward and district. Otherwise, come election day, they are not in our register and cannot vote on the machines
When that happens, their options are to (1)get someone to drive them to their old polling places just one final time to vote; (2) get someone to drive them downtown to get a court order allowing them to vote on the machines or (3) sit down with me while I show them how to fill out a provisional ballot - and those ballots aren't reviewed and counted until several days after the election. They typically choose Option 3 - which involves about 30 minutes of my time for each one, between overseeing them using the provisional ballot and then helping them fill out the form to update their registration for the next election. It's frustrating for them and takes up a tremendous amount of my time when I'm supposed to be overseeing the entire election process.
I registered 14 people today, which saves me about 7 hours of work on election day. 2 hours well spent.
And typical of the lazy ass Allegheny (Pittsburgh)Democratic committee people, the husband and wife committee people for my ward and district have NEVER lifted a finger to register voters who move in to the area or distribute campaign literature or put up campaign signs anywhere in their ward/district, let alone work the polls on election day. This is typical of Allegheny County's Democratic machine. Basically all the committee people do is go to 3 big parties a year - the annual primary endosement get-together, and election night parties.
As of 2014, Pennsylvania had 4, 088,149 registered Democrats and 3,030,017 registered Republicans.
We have a ONE MILLION REGISTERED VOTER ADVANTAGE!
Yet both chambers of the state legislature are overwhelmingly controlled by the GOP. The Democratic machine blames this completely on gerry-mandering. I'll consider that excuse after they make a sincere effort to get out the damn vote by Democrats.
http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=572645&mode=2
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