On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 19:04:32 -0400, Amy Guskin 
wrote:

>>> On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 12:43:16 -0400, Charlie E. wrote
>(in article ):
>> 
>> It is not that they don't allow it, they just don't like it!  8-)
>> 
>> You always get strange looks when there are two of you trying to
>> squeeze into a little space... <<
>
>I seriously do not understand this.  If someone came in with a cast on their 
>writing hand from a bowling accident, no one would question them going in 
>with assistance.  Ditto elderly people who don't see well and have shaky 
>hands.  We have a lot of people going in with someone assisting them, for all 
>sorts of reasons (and for those listed as permanently requiring assistance, 
>the voter rolls don't tell us what their disability is; just that they have 
>already registered the fact that they'll require assistance in the voting 
>booth).  Nobody thinks anything of it.  And we have miniscule
"cubicles"; 
>really just tall spindly tables with three sides and a light, with the 
>writing surface probably no more than sixteen inches on a side.  Someone 
>going "in" with them merely means they are standing next to
them at the 
>shielded table.  It's basically too small for one, to say nothing of two.  
>But in any case I don't see why the size would have anything to do with a 
>reaction to a voter requiring assistance.  I think you maybe just have awful 
>poll workers in your precinct.
>
>Amy

Its probably just our own perception,  more than actual disapproval...
;-)

Charlie
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