[sammyg2]

I worked a little late last night (I do my part to support those that won't work) so I got to the polling place at 7:15 pm.
The line was out to the street.
Directly behind me was an older lady who didn't speak english, but she was very capable of speaking Vietnamese. She demonstrated this by yelling into her cell phone constantly. When we got into the door, I politely tapped her on ther shoulder and pointed to the large sign on the wall that said "TURN OFF ALL CELL PHONES INSIDE POLLING STATION".
It said that in 5 different languages so you would think she would understand, nope. She continued yacking in a very loud manner until finally the people working there got tired of the complaints. One of them walked over, took the large sign off the door, and held it up in front of the lady's face.
She then continued talking on ther cell phone, but at a much lower volume. I was proud of myself for controlling my temper which was near boiling at that point. Usually I just go ahead and make a scene when stupid people do stupid things that affect me, but I'm working to control that.

Several places behind her was a large group of people who.... well let's just say they take the short bus to school.
They were all mentally handicapt to varying extremes, and were being herded by a few social workers. Coincidentally, there was a proposition on the ballot that would benefit these people a great deal. so the social workers got them all registered, coached them to vote, and then herded them down to voice their opinion. Yeah right.
During the hour I was waiting in line two of them got into a shouting match, one passed out on the floor, at least three of them started crying hysterically, one man relieved himself in his diaper (and it wasn't in the front, nice smell) and the rest were content to make as much noise as possible and generally cause all manner of disruption.
The people working there decided the best thing to do would be to put them all at the head of the line.
Um, No.
In fact I think my response was he11 no.
I told them that I would not stand by while therse people get in front of me and spent a few hours playing with the funny machines. I was very vocal in my disaproval so they let me go in front of these people with special needs. Then the rest of the people who had been waiting in line protested, so they got to take their regular turn also. it almost got ugly.

In addition to these very special people, I looked around at the rest of the crowd and was horrified that these are the people who help make the decisions that affect all of us.

SOME PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO VOTE!