WRITING CULTURE 2012: Film, Food & Beyond

CowGummy / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND

Along with just about everyone having sort of a psychological breakdown due to super-storm Sandy there are residual problems, like voting accessibility, coming to light. Polling sites are being moved around and administrators are learning about the new changes imposed on procedure just the night before Election Day. As the sites are being maneuvered, despite extreme gas shortages, the new locations have incurred damage (especially damaged sockets) and are, nearly to completely, unusable. Delays in opening have exceeded several hours and supply shortages are causing more aggravation to fickle sanity in such a fragile time.
Many of the affected areas are poor neighborhoods with lack of resources to begin with. The election is tight and the inability to vote will widen the victory gap as it is likely that neighborhoods hold united position. The direction is unclear so far.
Email voting has been extended to some resident and workers in the area. It doesn’t make much sense as there is no power in many areas let alone internet, phone and fax. It seems that it is a process which will require more trouble than an actual poll, if there even is a functioning one around. The waits are very long causing the suffering people to just quit and focus on the recovery.