Screw-The-Vote Tactic ??? - You Decide !!!

[WillyT]

Just heard on one of our local Liberal radio stations, that there have been voting problems in the Central Valley (Stockton\Lodi). Many people apparently went away without voting, because of delays.

The news guy also said, that they were having problems staffing the polling places because "a slew of volunteers withdrew their help at the last moment."

Seems like a new ploy in the game. Make the polling places seem fully staffed for smooth sailing, then yank your help en masse at the last minute.

Will post article if I can find one on this.

Anybody else heard of similar weirdness out there today?

And maybe we can all be back-up volunteers for November's election.

:shrug:

[WillyT]

1. Article Here: Early voting problems in S.J. (1:40 p.m.)

The Record
Published Tuesday, Jun 6, 2006

The Record

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STOCKTON — Computer glitches, election worker errors and an unexpected departure of several poll inspectors hampered early voting efforts in today’s primary election, causing polling places to open as much as three hours late and sending an unknown number of voters away without casting their ballots.

By midday, elections officials said most of the issues had been resolved and all polling locations were operating normally.
Due to machine problems, people were sent away without voting in Stockton, Lodi, Tracy and Morada, and poll workers did not show up to staff other precincts, including some in Weston Ranch.

“Pretty soon I’ll be working the polls,” San Joaquin Registrar of Voters Deborah Hench said just after polls countywide opened at 7 a.m. today. Hench was on the ground floor of her downtown Stockton headquarters, surrounded by employees fielding calls from distraught poll workers throughout the county.

At Lodi Fire Station No. 3, voters weren’t allowed to begin casting ballots until more than three hours after polls opened. David Jackson, who was working at that polling place, said the poll inspector who was supposed to be bringing the precinct’s four Diebold touchscreen machines didn’t show up this morning, and the Registrar’s office had to send new machines, which arrived around 10:30 a.m.

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Link: http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060606/NEWS01/60606008/1001

Hmmm...

:wtf:

[AnOhioan]

2. If memory serves me.....

During the Ohio primary at the beginning of May there were problems in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) that, in part, derived from a lack of pollworkers who actually bothered to show up at the assigned polls, or left early.

[AndyTiedye]

3. I Heard That At My Polling Place Too

Thing is, they just split our tiny community into two precincts.
Both vote in the fire station, but 2 separate tables,
2 optical scanners, and twice as many poll workers needed as before.

If they have been doing this all over, it is no wonder they are
short of polling workers in some places.

2 precincts for maybe 500 voters total. Why? and Why now?
As of when I voted, 37 had voted in "my" precinct, and 10 in the "other" precinct.

[WillyT]

4. I Just Heard That It's Pombo's District, And He's Being Challenged By...

an actual honorable Republican, Pete McCloskey, who came out of retirement to get rid of this corrupt puke!

And...

As the article says, the Diebold guy doesn't show up in the morning with the Diebold machines that were probably checked over, and some other guy who nobody knows, shows up with "different" machines 3 hours later!

Keep an eye on this one everybody!

:mad::nuke::mad: