Beware of Voting Irregularities in the Fall

Obama as the nominee is going to do some really strange things to the likely voter models. African American turnout is likely to spike. This will mean that some voting precincts that never had high turnout before will suddenly find themselves inundated.

Democrats around the country need to start calling their local officials NOW and asking them about what they plan to do to accommodate the coming flood of voters in November. What we cannot have is another situation like we had in 2004 where Republican leaning districts had more voting stations than they needed and minority districts had long lines in the rain. Part of the get out the vote campaign needs to be not only registering new voters but working far in advance to make sure that the infrastructure is in place for those new voters to actually exercise their franchise.

I know some of the Citizens have worked as polling place volunteers and/or have personal or technical experience with voting technology. What kinds of questions should local Democrats ask about the November election and which level of government should they ask (i.e. city, county or state)?