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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP poll workers in Missouri got lost during their lunch break -- and voters were turned away
"One Republican poll worker had a family emergency and left," said Eric Fey, St. Louis County's Democratic director of elections. The other two left for lunch, apparently got lost and didn't come back, he said.
"It was just like a comedy of errors," Fey said. It is unclear how many people were turned away during the 45 minutes it took to get more Republican poll workers to the school, which also had three Democratic poll workers on site.
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Fey said his office found out about the sudden absence of Republican poll workers from the Democrats, who shut down voting something Fey says they should not have done.
"I would have preferred for them to keep going," he said.
There were other problems as well.
Fey said some poll workers were misunderstanding tickets that come out of an electronic sign-in system and were mistakenly giving voters nonpartisan ballots. Those nonpartisan ballots show only the issues, such as Proposition A, and do not include party primary races for county executive or county prosecutor, for example.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/gop-poll-workers-missouri-got-lost-lunch-break-voters-turned-away/
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/republican-poll-workers-break-for-lunch-and-don-t-come/article_e4bf686d-8674-56ed-b511-863dd4784ff2.html
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GOP poll workers in Missouri got lost during their lunch break -- and voters were turned away (Original Post)
kpete
Aug 2018
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CurtEastPoint
(18,656 posts)1. Heckuva pollworker training job, Brownie.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,394 posts)3. "Got lost."
rzemanfl
(29,567 posts)4. If only all Repukes would get lost. Permanently. n/t
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)5. They have partisan poll workers?
Our poll workers are paid temp employees of the Election office.
I usually work the polls as a Dem poll watcher. There are rarely any repugs who show up.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)7. Apparently the state tries to keep it equal. Not a bad idea really.
There are also observers at most polls who are sent by GOO and Democratic organizations. Again, a good idea.
Im not sure there are many true non-partisan people nowadays.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)6. Damn, in NYC we don't have partisan poll workers.
Interesting. And sad.