BBV - Ohio poll worker gets wrong ballot

[harmonyguy]

(Marion County) - An Indianapolis couple volunteered, for their first time, to work at the polls on Election Day, so they requested absentee ballots. On Monday they received a surprise in the mail that had them asking: “Will my vote count?”

“The day that I received the ballots was the same day that the county election board had talked about how things were gonna go much smoother this time around,” said Traci Lipp.

Two envelopes, same address. But when they laid their ballots side-by-side, they discovered their ballots were different. The couple lives in the same house. Yet the ballots are from different Indiana House districts.

“I was very concerned. I was afraid that if I filled it out and turned it in and it was discovered that I had the wrong ballot, that that would negate all of my vote. And I want my vote to count,” said Lipp.
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“This type of thing occurs every election cycle,” said Doris Anne Sadler, Marion County clerk. WELL THEN FIX IT ALREADY !!

http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2402980&nav=0Ra7RlXN

[Metatron]

1. Actually, this happened in Indiana

As a Marion County voter this does not surprise me. Here, we run out of ballots, misspell candidates' names, and send out bizarre postcards to registered voters threatening to remove them from the polls. ES&S screwed the county over, which may still result in a lawsuit. Sadler, the Republican clerk, is ineffective and hardly seems to have the public's interest at heart. The most interesting occurrence was when a former ES&S employee quit the company, turned whistle blower, and became a member of the committee investigating election errors. Johnson County, just south of Indianapolis, is on their third electronic voting system in a couple of years. Indiana doesn't get much attention in the BBV world but it is truly a mess here.

[harmonyguy]

2. What was I thinking?

Let's see - the article clearly talks about an Indianapolis couple, and last time I checked Indianapolis was in......wait, I'll get it yet...........in oh-Indiana?

I must have been thinking about ..........
I have no idea WHAT I was thinking about.

My mistake. I'll try to actually read the article next time.
HG
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