Have you ever been prevented from voting?

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

No of course not, I live in a civilized country.

[bagelman]

I almost was last year because I was working, ironically doing GOTV for a Democrat that I personally couldn't stand. I snuck away at the last minute to vote for the Green Party candidate ironically enough.

Why would you do a GOTV for a candidate you didn't like?

[Thunderbird is the word]

I almost was last year because I was working, ironically doing GOTV for a Democrat that I personally couldn't stand. I snuck away at the last minute to vote for the Green Party candidate ironically enough.

Why would you do a GOTV for a candidate you didn't like?

because I had experience working in politics and was desperate for a job and still figured that he was the lesser of two evils.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

I almost was last year because I was working, ironically doing GOTV for a Democrat that I personally couldn't stand. I snuck away at the last minute to vote for the Green Party candidate ironically enough.

Why would you do a GOTV for a candidate you didn't like?

because I had experience working in politics and was desperate for a job and still figured that he was the lesser of two evils.

That reminds me of a stoner that was working at my precinct for the Democratic congressional candidate and I was working for Adrian Wyllie's Gubernatorial campaign and he basically shared his life story with me about how he wanted to be a writer but can't due to lack of money so he applied to be a poll worker with this guys campaign.

[Making America Great Again]

Nope.

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

In 2000 I was escorted out of the polling place for a little dustup with a republican poll watcher, I was eventually allowed to vote but 3 cops (one of whom was my first husband) stood between me and her "just in case".

Give 'em hell TXGurl!


No but forrealz what happened?

[DavidB.]

No, I live in Austria the Netherlands - a place which can handle elections properly.

[Badger]

my first year in college i was over 2 1/2 hours from home without a car. i called tthe Allegheny County Board of Eleections for an absentee ballot a few weeks ahead of time, thinking i was being oh so responsible not waiting to the last minute. turns out under PA's archeic laws at the time i needed to submit a request a full 30 days before the election, so i missed voting.

about 10 years later as a young overworked associate, i came home after 9 one niight to see election results on the news. it was an off-off-year primary election with so little buzz, i'd completely forgot. i cheked afterwards and learned there wasn't a single contested race in my precinct anyway.

not sure either counts as "prevented", especially the latter.

[angus]

not sure either counts as "prevented"

I don't think the first episode was the result of prevention.  The rules were in place, but you simply did not bother to learn the rules.  The second one is more of a prevention, especially if it was a situation in which you feared that you might lose your job if you sneaked away long enough to vote.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

No of course not, I live in a civilized country.

No, I live in Austria the Netherlands - a place which can handle elections properly.

Then I might live in both an uncivilized country and a place in which can't handle elections properly (well, that's it, France!).

Well, for the last European elections (iirc 2014 then, yeah), I had a veeeeeeery hard time convincing me to go to vote, I had finally decided to go, but was always delaying the moment to go, finally, on the last mins, I decide to leave the armchair and go back to what they call civilization, it's ok, I can walk fast I need less than 10 mins to go (even if, who knows why, the polling station was on the other side from down town, while some others were closer, but not mine), gosh, maybe 5 mins left!

I run!

I run!

I run!

(well, my armchair legs were kinda chewing gum then, but still, I tried to give my best)

I finally reach the stuff, it's ok, it's not shut, I go toward the openned door, the guy in charge of checking your ID before you enter is in front of it, he smiles to me I smile to him, I say hello, I give my ID and......

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN...

(hmm, it's not easy to do that sound correctly especially without nasals)

Well, the big bell that rings all over the city announces the vote is over, I nicely ask 'it's ok? I can still go?', he looks to at the guy in charge of it in the school room 'there is someone? can he go?' the young guy over there makes big negative signs with his hands and with his quite serious eyes behind his little round glasses say 'no no no, over, the bell has rung, period', I nicely ask him 'oh sure? I can't??' he confirmed it on the same tone.

I might have said something like 'oh well, that's life, too bad for them' to the ID guy, and I fled that stuff, I'm not sure of my mood, I was kinda pissed to have missed it but also kinda happy to make abstention grow.

Anyways I went to the core of down town and decided to do something I had never done so far...going to Subway.

Front National was expected to make it big so eating it in front of TV would be a ruined night all the way!

Front National effectively made it big, 25% of voters, and then could proudly spout out '1st party of France!'.

Subway was, as I expected, something worse than Mc Donald's, and that one in down town has anyhow shut a few months after.

And well, I never again entered a polling station thus participated in an election since then.

[DavidB.]

The point about the Netherlands and Austria being civilized countries was more related to the fact that we are automatically registered to vote. I think that goes for France as well, though I could see the case for you being prevented from voting in a different way. It was a rude thing to do. I have worked in Dutch polling booths, and we always make sure we are reasonable. If someone were to walk in at 21:00, they could probably still vote. 21:05 is a different case.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

The point about the Netherlands and Austria being civilized countries was more related to the fact that we are automatically registered to vote. I think that goes for France as well

Hmm, not even, though big innovation this year, we can register till 2 months before the election, and even by internet, woohoo! modern country!

And 21?

In Castres, like in most part of France it's 18h, only maybe the 10 biggest cities have it till 20h, maybe Paris can make it latter but I'm not sure.