There are two problems here: (1) Who is the person that claimed authority to make that decision? (2) Who and why were the poll workers taking orders from someone without authority?
Because of the indoctrination that we all experience in school that teaches us to defer to Authority no matter what basically just to go on autopilot and do what the person saying that they are in charge says
That's not indoctrination. Don't be so grandiose. There's no thinking behind it. It is merely human nature. But when people are in organizations, they ARE indoctrinated in the command structure, and either their superiors failed to do that or they simply decided to do the wrong thing because it fit their prejudices (or both).
There are two problems here: (1) Who is the person that claimed authority to make that decision? (2) Who and why were the poll workers taking orders from someone without authority?
Because of the indoctrination that we all experience in school that teaches us to defer to Authority no matter what basically just to go on autopilot and do what the person saying that they are in charge says
That's not indoctrination. Don't be so grandiose. There's no thinking behind it. It is merely human nature. But when people are in organizations, they ARE indoctrinated in the command structure, and either their superiors failed to do that or they simply decided to do the wrong thing because it fit their prejudices (or both).