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 <7743d6phfc1fq2duej4jf1gvhfekfcsjij@4ax.com>):   
   >>    
   >> 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   
   --- SBBSecho 2.12-Win32   
    * Origin: Time Warp of the Future BBS - Home of League 10 (1:14/400)