Very detailed Lemmy post I wrote about this fuckery and more
Local news article containing the quote about the voter registrar
On Homer Plessey Way, board member Daniel Milojevic stood outside the Bywater polling place in the Press Street Gallery suggesting people try the two Jefferson Parish locations.
He said the local registrar of voters gave the district only 300 ballots per location and told them they could expect about 20 people.
“We had to confirm the number of ballots weeks ago,” he said, before it was clear how high the turnout would be. Milojevic conceded that planning had clearly missed the mark.
As one astute gentleman asked while defending Reddit, and accusing me of spreading misinformation:
If hardly anybody knew, how did turnout exceed expectations within 2 hours?
Because the "expectation" provided by the registrar was literally 20 voters per location (60 voters in total) for the entire fucking city.
The age old question "Were they stupid or evil?"
I guess we'll see who wins the seat. If it just so happens to be an industry flak who toes the line every time the local oligarchs snap their fingers and gets generous kickbacks for the effort without ever being questioned, I'm putting my money on "evil". If its a clueless perennial candidate who just throws their hat into every race, then takes office and blunders around for six months before being removed by the county/state on ethics charges, I'll concede it may just be election management stupidity.