Hot Springs Politics- Election 2010

The primary/ run-off elections are over, big business won the day as usual. When Michael Moore said that 4 million Americans read at or below the 4th grade he must have used Arkansas as an example. How anyone can vote against their own best self-interests just to be a part of a group that doesn't exist except in the minds of the people pulling the puppet strings is beyond me.
When the voter yells to vote for the farmers (aka Blanche Lincoln), he is having his strings pulled by someone that needs him to vote against the farmer and in favor of BIG Agribusiness. He does not see himself as a part of the labor movement because he's a "Farmer". Farmers don't "labor" they work the fields and raise the crops that feed their families and the rest of the world. He sees himself "independent" of any force outside of his manual labor required to operate his machines. Government is to protect his interests against those things over which he has no control; weather, over production, under production, foreign imports, and foreign markets. His control consists of machinery costs/repairs/maintenance, health costs and the availability of schooling for his children.
As long as the farmer views himself isolated from the rest of the "labor" force, he will always be a pawn in the electoral process. He will be played like a finely tuned orchestra.
And now we are here in Hot Springs where the process is so ingrained people don't even know anymore that they are being "played". The Election Commission is composed of those selected by the Chair of the local county central committee, Republican and Democrat. They set the rules, select the days for early voting (within set state laws which can be interpreted in many ways or totally ignored), what machines will be used and where the polling places will be. The dominant party will have 2 members on the Election Commission while the subordinate party will have one. As of today they are Charles Tapp, Chairman (Democrat), Virginia (Ginna) Watson (Democrat), and Twyla Brown (Republican).
If you wondered why only 2 polling places were open, consider that Halter carried Garland County in the primary. Labor was behind him (Arkansas Labor, NOT Washington Labor, they aren't registered to vote here). People that "work" are called "labor". When you work FOR someone, drawing wages, you work the hours he/she demands. You get paid whatever they are willing to give you that you can survive on or not. Situations make strange bedfellows and a lot of people are working jobs they hate because it pays the most or the hours give them the flexibility to live a "life'. Rarely does the "boss" care if you get time off to vote or not.
Now we're down to the crux of the matter. The polls were open only during the week when most "labor" can't get off or are too far from the polling place to make it during the hours its open for early voting. Closing the polling locations near their homes and work, disenfranchised "labor" which had supported Halter in the Primary. Lincoln won Garland County.
This is not about who won the Senate race, it's about the polls being manipulated to keep some people from voting. The handicapped were forced to walk long distances because the Election Commission parking lot had few Handicap parking spaces available, lines of cars were forced to maneuver around entering and exiting voters trying to get to and from their cars.