Yes, we can.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

(And yes, I've already posited that question in one of the other umpteen election day threads)

Hmm... maybe we need to start another thread, just on the topic of freebies available today.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

It is illegal to offer incentives for voting.

So free coffee for everyone!

Free coffee? Yip! Where?

[Strangler Lewis]

You used to be able to get a free slice at Blondie's Pizza in Berkeley. Don't know if that's still the case.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

You used to be able to get a free slice at Blondie's Pizza in Berkeley. Don't know if that's still the case.

Do you have to be wearing Birkenstocks to get the free slice?

[JWBear]

Something tells me it's going to be a long and repetitive election day.

[Ghoulish Delight]

2 hours and 50 minutes until live non-results start streaming in!

[BarTopDancer]

I heard rumors of Black Panthers with bats outside polling places and Republican poll observers being kicked out for being Republican. Given the source, without being able to cite sources I don't believe him. I think that would have been all over the news.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

There are contradicting reports about that.

Fox News says that the black panthers were blocking the door. But one of them was actually an official election volunteer whose job was to guard the door. (The other, who WAS - rather ill-advisedly - holding a nightstick, was his friend; he did leave when asked.)

Fox news says that they were intimidating people, and the rumor has expanded to "not letting Republicans in." That's a fallacy in and of itself because how would they know who the Republicans were? You're not allowed to wear paraphernalia or participate in electioneering within 100 feet of the polling place.

Dischell (note: an Obama volunteer) says that earlier this morning a few men who identified themselves as being from the McCain campaign came and started taking pictures of the two panthers on their cell phones. She suggested that they seemed to be baiting the panthers, and that the designated watcher may have given one of them the finger in response to the picture taking.

The police came roughly an hour and a half later. She says she talked to the cops and told them there had been no incident. The police drove away without getting out of the car, she adds.

Some time later, a second, larger group of men whose affiliation couldn't be determined came with real cameras and started taking more pictures. Maybe 15 minutes later the cops returned. This time, they spoke to people on both sides, and told the panther not designated to watch the polls to leave, which he did without an argument.

"There was no fight, nothing," she says.

Fox News arrived on the scene at around that time and started interviewing people near the entrance. The building manager asked the Fox reporter to leave, she says, and he moved further from the entrance.

That's where things now stand. "There has been no fighting, no voter intimidation at all," she said.

Philadelphia DA office says they received no complaints.

Basically, witnesses are saying that the gentleman who was interviewed by Fox News is full of bull****.

Yes, I think it was pretty stupid to hold a nightstick. But the guy seems to be telling racist tall tales since others are repudiating.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I saw the Faux News report on this, with their usual field reporter speaking in outraged tones style. Made me highly suspect of the facts.

[BarTopDancer]

Thanks for doing that research H!!