Polling place drama

[kddani]

Anyone have some funny stories of their polling place drama?

Waited about 45-50 minutes... there were a ton of people there, only 3 voting machines. We were held up by a crotchety old disabled man. As way of background, they let the disabled find out who they would be in line after, then go sit until their place in line got there. Which is perfectly fine. This particular crotchety old man came in about 20 minutes after I and the people around me got there. However, he goes in about 1/2 dozen people ahead of us. He starts throwing a FIT because they want to see ID.
He's hooting and hollering that they're breaking the law, he's not a first time voter, etc. He goes aside, calls the elections office,
tries to put them on the phone with the polling person, he keeps
fighting. Everyone's getting bitchy b/c he's totally holding up the
line. He keeps on saying they're breaking the law. I say to him,
"sir, you're breaking the law. You're disrupting the polling place."
Of course, he's like "how am I disrupting?". Me: "you've seen the
line, you're holding up hundreds of people from voting". That kinda shut him up a little, he stopped bugging the poll workers (they were nice, they found humor in it- they asked me if i'd like to show my id, I said i'd rather them guess. Another kid in line offered to give a butt print, haha) and went over and talked to the two "observers" from the parties. Dude, if you have an issue, fill out the provisional ballot and talk to the lawyers. GRRRR. This other little old lady said she was going to fight him, we encouraged her!