Jim's NowPublic Postings: Early voting day 4

Wow, where do I start? Running total is now 4420 for 4 days of early voting at the Mooresville Public Library and it was not a day without some controversy.

Once again people, obviously Republican plants were complaining about us being there.

Once again the election judge came out and called a meeting between all the people stumping for a candidate. She named me specifically as being one that people were complaining about, but that we were all guilty of being too pushy with people.

I tried to pin her down on exactly what the complaints were and supposedly we were getting up in people's faces. We told her she's welcome to watch us all she wants, we're not doing anything wrong, but the compromise was basically that we're neutered as to what we can do out at the table. We can't show anyone the ballot now unless they ASK to see it and all we can do is hand out leaflets. She said if there are more complaints we will be asked to leave, which the attorneys have said they actually CAN'T do.

I still don't know if this election official knows that two police officers, one who is a congressional candidate were watching us and saw nothing wrong in what we were doing. She would probably wet herself if she knew we had two bonified lawmen on our side. And don't quote me, but we hear that most of the election staff at this polling place is Republican and so that may account for some of the complaints being believed. Personally I think that the election officers see so many people coming in with Obama stickers and cards, that it just ticks them off.

One DNC worker who was there was shocked to learn that should we ever need witnesses to how we conduct ourselves, the police officers are our backup. I pointed the two officers out to her and told her she can go talk to them anytime she wants if she has any questions about our conduct.

I know some of the complaints had to be a plant, because of how this one lady voter and her daughter came out and said she didn't think it is right that we were even there because no one from McCain's campaign was there. We told her to talk to them, they didn't send anyone, we did. We said they have as much right to be here as we do and if they choose not to send anyone, there's nothing we can do about it, but we for sure will continue to show up.

We had one girl show up with full intentions of voting for Obama and after we gave her the DNC recommendations card a friend of hers started whispering to her, but loudly enough for me to hear, that she doesn't want to vote for Obama, he's an Arab and terrorist and he supports terrorism and sends money to terrorists. I told her, no that's not true at all and to go vote her conscience. She came out and said she voted for Obama and got an Obama sticker for her car. Nice try buddy, but she voted what her heart told her.

This election is getting dicey and people are going to great lengths to try to abridge our right to free speech and get us in trouble. So much for McCain or the Republicans running a clean and fair compaign.

Bottom line, I know that some ticked off Republicans are just making waves out of frustration at the good job we're doing of getting out the vote.