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Originally Posted by richlevy
a part of me wonders if the anti-fraud campaign is a method for lowering legitimate turnout and pushing up wait times at the polls to discourage voting.
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It's interesting being in a battleground state. Never happened for me before. The Obama volunteers are extremely active. They have called us at least a dozen times in the last few months. Our Democratic "neighborhood chiefs" sent us a letter recently urging us to vote early in order to help reduce wait times at the polls for others on election day. That had never occurred to me, but it's a great idea. Virginia has very lenient standards for early voting. The fact that I work in DC, and am out of my county for more than 11 hours of the day means that I'm eligible to vote early. I just voted today, which was way more convenient for me. Took 20 minutes and was on a Saturday. Plus I can also impact the election by lowering wait times slightly for others
I think one of the reasons that my household has been targeted so heavily is that we voted in a Democrat school board primary a couple months ago. Only 5% of the county voted in that election.