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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I worked the polls in the south.  We had no lines. 
There was plenty of parking available. We also have early voting so you have about 6 days to vote. (Five early voting days and the one major voting day.) Our polls are open from 7:00 am - 8:00 pm (extended hours.) Everyone who had ID that showed they lived in our voting district was allowed to vote.  If the person was not listed on our rolls they were allowed to vote on a provisional ballot.

Our Supervisor of Elections in my county is African American.  Our trainers (to work the polls) were all African American trainers.

My southern county also allows mail in voting.

No country in the world allows people to vote without ID.  [/quote]

The “south” is a big place.  How nice that you, personally, “had no lines”.  That really has little relevance to the many many people who had difficulties — that were both predictable and deliberately created to hamper voting. 
You’re leaping from your own, limited, personal experience to an unsupported comment about “no country in the world”— as though either of these things is directly relevant to the concerns that many people have raised.

Let’s start here: The types of ID that some places require have been deliberately chosen to make it difficult for some people to vote compared to others.  If ID is the priority, perhaps you have some suggestions re: making it easy and free for everyone to obtain adequate ID.  Everyone means everyone — not just your personal experiences in your personal county in your unspecified state in “the south”. (Sic)

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