11 people? This seems like a gross misappropriation of resources more than anything.
180,000 people in Providence, and somehow a precinct has only 11 registered voters? What is going on here?
I waited in line for two hours during early voting here in Texas. And that was nothing compared to folks in many other parts of the US.
How the hell is this even possible?
Rhody here. Providence does a solid job with voting tech: large fill-in-the-bubble cards (paper trail!) and scanners. Things move quickly, even with voter ID law (tablet scanners setup). But…the races weren’t exactly competitive. The Dem primaries had the action. Lots of progressive wins, who now won in the general.
A friend lives near that district. Can’t believe in a city that size they’d have a district that small.
Texas doesn’t want you anyways. Democratic run states encourage voting, Republican ines discourage it.
Fun fact: I lived in that very neighborhood, half a block from the church, from the ages of 1 to 4. Just revisited the area for the first time ever last year.
I don’t know, but wonder if because it’s near Brown there are lots of students and they vote elsewhere. Whatever, what a waste. I’ll have to ask my friend in Providence about it.
I lived in this neighorhood the last five years. This wasn’t our polling place, but even at the much busier polling locations, lines were modest. My mom volunteered at her local poll about a half hour outside Providence and described steady flow of people all day but no particularly long lines. Plus, our elections were basically a coronation of the local D incumbents.
Maybe we should GoFundME a slush fund to move about one-third of the RI/MA/CT dem voters to WY/ND/SD and the Ds will take the Senate in one or two cycles without losing the northeast. Editor’s note: I don’t want to be among the half that moves out west.
Okay, so I looked for a map and couldn’t find one, but I did find a list of precinct results from previous elections and the precinct number, 2807. In 2016 it had a total of four votes in the presidential race (3 Hillary, 1 Trump).
BUT, it was at “First Unitarian Church of Providence - B”. Because there is another precinct at the same location, 2806, that gets the “A”. It had a total of 125 votes in that race (including 4 write-ins and one for Jill Stein).
So a total of 129 ballots, which is better than essentially none, but still. I had to wait in line for two hours to vote early last week. Kinda crazy. I suspect that once again these precincts were combined and shared poll workers.
My guess was that it’s in some part an artifact or redistricting, that precincts will be redrawn in the next cycle. Maybe. In 2012 there was one vote for Barack Obama in that precinct - so much for privacy of the vote. That brings up, actually, a good point. When precincts are that small, it’s not a big mystery to figure out who voted for what. Going back there’s some weird numbering in 2008, and the locations don’t seem to match the newer numbers for any of those older elections anyway. I thought it might be that there were old folks who had always voted in the same place, dammit, and why should they change even if their friends have mostly died off and the big housing block got turned into a mall, and every residence left in the area has been turned into an Air BnB rental?
But the records make it even more mysterious.
Turnout porn
Question: Does anyone live there now?
me either
The problems of privileged white folks - a polling place ready, willing, and able but still unused. Meanwhile, poor people and people of color fight, search, and wait for the opportunity to cast their ballots despite numerous roadblocks erected to prevent them from doing so.
Systemic racism is a cancer on our nation.
Can anyone say Dodge City Kansas? over 13,000 registered voters, 60% Hispanic population, and the ONE polling place was moved out of town, because of construction… A polling place for 11 registered voters, what a waste. *edited to add link
Affluent neighborhood. Can’t risk a rich person being inconvenienced on the off chance he wants to vote.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but I live in Austin. We just had incredibly high turnout.
It was incredibly high all over the state.
that’s one reason I have such a hard time believing that Beto legitimately lost the election.