Confusion Greets Voters in Some Precincts (Ohio - Cincinnati Enquirer)

[VolcanoJen]

http://www.enquirer.com/midday/11/11032004_News_mday_voting03.html

Updated 2:50 pm

At the Holy Name Church Parish House in Mount Auburn, where two overwhelmingly Democratic and African-American precincts vote, a person who was to have been a GOP vote challenger was named at the last minute to fill a vacant position as one of the regular Republican precinct judges who are always on hand to monitor voting.

Voters and vote monitors complained that the GOP precinct judge was questioning every voter about his or her address and "being a jerk about it," Burke said.

Burke and Tony Reisig, a Republican administrator at the board of elections, were dispatched to the Mount Auburn polling place to talk to the poll worker.

"We made it clear that if he did not stop, he would be pulled out," Burke said.

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[leftchick]

1. why warn him? yank his ass outa there!!

hey Jen! Happy Take Back America Day!!! :hi:

[Judi Lynn]

2. I think it's possible this was planned, from the article:

Election Protection Coalition monitors were reporting problems at polling places where two or more precincts vote.

"We've had reports that poll workers aren't doing a very good job putting people in the right lines for their precincts," said Molly Lombardi, a spokeswoman for the Election Protection Coalition. "People stood in line for over an hour in the rain in some places only to find they were in the wrong line. A lot of them gave up and went home."
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How hard could it have been to put people in the right lines? I really think it was done maliciously, knowing that as they used up these peoples' time, they easily had very little time left to vote, if they had a schedule to keep.