If Santorum wins by 1 vote, I'm going to beat this guy down with his cat paperweight.

And why a cat? Why not something symbolic, like an elephant or donkey?

Got a complaint about your voting experience? Tell it to the comments.

Better yet, call 866-OUR-VOTE to report it to the someone who can do something about it (the Election Incident Reporting System).

From voteprotect.org:

The Election Incident Reporting System (EIRS) is an integrated set of computer tools for recording and analyzing information about voting problems before, during, and after elections. Since 2004, hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals in the United States have used EIRS to help protect our right to vote and assure that every vote is counted as cast.

EIRS is a project of the Verified Voting Foundation, in cooperation with other Election Protection Coalition member organizations, including the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and People for the American Way Foundation.

The Election Incident Reporting System (EIRS) is an integrated set of tools to assist Election Protection Organizations and their members in carrying out a number of activities, including:

• Collect background and testing information from state & local election officials
• Compile and track election irregularity data before, during, and after election day
• Organize and manage teams of people and tasks
• Dispatch attorneys and technologists rapidly to resolve election day incidents at voting places
• Provide an on-line collaborative environment for rapid communication among advocates, attorneys, technologists, election officials, media professionals, and others
• Support subsequent research for election policy-making

I found the comments attached to the story to be most interesting. The bloggers go on and on about voter intimation at the polls –of Republicans!

“I voted today and I couldn't believe what I saw. At my voting place there were 8 volunteers and 15 union men wearing union jackets. The union men were stationed at the middle of the sidewalk and greeted me, two more opened the door, and then one asked me my last name and pointed me to the table to register. Then one table was filled with union men behind the registration table. Others were sitting in chairs or milling around the polls. When I left two union men sat in chair behind the machine where I placed my ballot. I was completely intimidated, like I was being "supervised" or "watched." WHY??? This should be illegal.”

And this gem:

“civil unrest on election day. the dem's will pull out all stops to stop the bleeding.

I purposely wait til the last minute to vote so I can see who is behind all the rubbish. It is VERY apparent who is causing the fracas today, you liberals should be ashamed.

The unions are out, the tax breaks are in and you now have to work for a living.

God help us if the tide turns due to the corruption we are witnessing so far today.”

Um, they do work –that’s how they gained union membership, dumbfuck.

Can you believe the bizarre parallel universe these right wing freaks live in? They control the military and all three branches of government for frak’s sake. Talk about a psychotic persecution complex.

It’s a good thing these cowards are bravely fighting in the 101st Keyboarding Battalion instead of Iraq.

Hillarious, Andrew, but it begs the question: would the GOP voter have felt LESS intimidated, if say the people at the polls had been wearing white sheets over their heads?

OK, I didn't get strangled, but I did have a tougher than usual time voting this morning. My partner and I showed up at our usual polling place at 7 a.m. to find it locked up with a huddling mass of election volunteers on the steps. The pastor hadn't shown up to let them in. They sent us a couple of blocks away so we could vote via provisional ballots. This heightened the anxiety at polling place #2 because they hadn't rehearsed receiving provisional requests. Thank goodness for the supervisor who knew the drill. Unfortunately, I was never asked for any ID.

I had absolutely no trouble filling out my ballot at home and then affixing 63 cents of postage to it before dropping it in the post office mail slot :P

Friends don't let friends beat GOP voters. They hand them shovels.

I was totally wondering about the significance of the metal cat paperweight. Who uses paperweights anymore? Everyone knows that hammers are easierr to use to inflict serious damage.

So it's official. It's Dieboldicide. That hot little shiksa chick Wonkette (who is now one or two guys, depending on who's counting) said so. Must be true.