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Sorry, it's 2025 but you can't vote bc we didn't print & cut enough small pieces of paper 🤷‍♀️ (europe.pub)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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Very detailed Lemmy post I wrote about this fuckery and more

Local news article containing the quote about the voter registrar

On Homer Plessey Way, board member Daniel Milojevic stood outside the Bywater polling place in the Press Street Gallery suggesting people try the two Jefferson Parish locations.

He said the local registrar of voters gave the district only 300 ballots per location and told them they could expect about 20 people.

“We had to confirm the number of ballots weeks ago,” he said, before it was clear how high the turnout would be. Milojevic conceded that planning had clearly missed the mark.

As one astute gentleman asked while defending Reddit, and accusing me of spreading misinformation:

If hardly anybody knew, how did turnout exceed expectations within 2 hours?

Because the "expectation" provided by the registrar was literally 20 voters per location (60 voters in total) for the entire fucking city.

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[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The thing is this was the first of its kind election for this district, so where did those estimates even come from? If you give a number it’s got to be from somewhere right?

So, this board has never since it's creation had to have an actual election? It's always been someone running unopposed?

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes, in this district nobody has ever challenged a board seat, and it's only happened 7 times throughout the history of the state in other districts.

Usually people just have the seat until they decide to step down.