Reply #12: Multiple precincts in same polling location [View All]

[sympa]

In Ohio, there were many places that contained multiple precincts in a single polling place. I don't know the figures for how widespread that was. The problem arises in that people are showing up at the correct polling place, but the poll workers don't know which (long) line to place people in. So if they vote at the wrong table (the one that the poll workers sent them to) then their vote won't count, simply because of poll worker error.

Are there any lawyers who can look into this? I'll ask the one lawyer I know personally to look into it and forward the story to Mr Nader. If you have any others who could look into this, please forward the story along to them.
The story that I linked in my original post happened in Stark County Ohio (yes, home of Diebold). I wonder how many other places in the State of Ohio encountered this same issue. If this was a widespread problem throughout the state, it would have been quite easy for the poll workers to consistently send voters to the wrong precinct table and therefore, many of those provisional ballots that we might have been counting on to close the gap between * and Senator Kerry won't help at all.

As far as I know, my vote counted. I have yet to contact the BoE to find out if it did.

Please forward to link to the original story to people you know. It just so happens that the newspaper that printed that story endorsed Bush...definitely not a lib paper.

Thanks