Arbitration & Mediation

Negotiating Government: Triage the Vote

By Victoria Pynchon

UPDATE:  Courtesy of Blawg Review #184 over at The Faculty Lounge is a link to the Voter Suppression Wiki Home Page.

CNN was reporting yesterday that in early voting the elderly gave up waiting to vote because they couldn't stand in line for 3+ hours.

Let's do what our mothers taught us to do when we were young:  stand up and give our seat to our elders!

Other suggestions for Tuesday:

• bring water, food to distribute to those in need on election lines
• bring as many folding chairs as you can carry for those in need
• engage the line by suggesting that it be organized according to need:
  • frail/eldery
  • those who MUST get to work
  • those with children or sick relatives at home
  • anyone else with a special need to vote quickly
• if the weather's bad, bring extra umbrellas; rain ponchos
• offer to drive people who cannot drive or walk to the polls
• knock on doors in your neighborhood, making sure that everyone who wants to vote:
  • knows where their polling place is
  • is able to get to their polling place
• for anyone who "can't leave home" for any reason (caretakers, primarily) offer to spell that person by "sitting" for them while they go to vote

If you have other suggestions to help our friends and neighbors participate in the democratic process that makes our nation great and guarantees our freedom to negotiate, please leave comments here!

I just learned the new issue of The Complete Lawyer is up!  Read co-columnist Diane Levin's

Full post as published by Settle It Now Negotiation Blog on November 03, 2008 (boomark / email).