Thousands of Fla. Voters May Be Refused (they think they are reg.)

[donsu]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=536&e=16&u=/ap/20041002/ap_on_el_pr/florida_voting

Thousands of Floridians who think they're registered to vote could be turned away at the polls Nov. 2 because their voter registration forms weren't completely filled out, officials said Friday.

Secretary of State Glenda Hood said some groups registering voters are turning in application forms with information missing, such as unchecked boxes asking whether applicants are citizens, mentally incompetent or felons.

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America's Families United is suing the Duval County elections supervisor to get copies of 1,441 rejected applications there. Browne said a judge ruled against it Friday.

Previously, the Advancement Project received copies of forms from Miami-Dade, Orange, Hillsborough and other counties. In Miami-Dade and Broward alone, Browne said 12,000 incomplete ballots were turned in.

Acting Duval elections supervisor Richard Carlberg said his office is trying to call the 1,441 applicants to let them know they won't be able to vote unless the forms are completed, but said many of the phone numbers on the forms aren't working numbers.
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I think the bushgang/rove is going to use all of the record breaking new regs. as a way to mess up the elections in EVERY state. all over the country on voting day the polling places will be in chaos.

[Racenut20]

1. They need to do the early vote on October 18th.

[Skarbrowe]

2. If you're not registered, you can't vote.

I remember someone posting that Duval County had thrown out a bunch of registration forms that had been sent in. I hadn't heard anything about again it until this.

I can understand registration forms being questioned that aren't filled out with NEEDED information. Normally, I would trust election offices to take care of this problem and make sure the people were notified if they made a serious mistake on their form. But, in the state of Florida and any other state that is run by republican appointed election supervisors this will be nothing but an open invitation to throw away possibly thousands of registration forms. And, since they are throwing them away, how are we supposed to know if they were actually filled out incorrectly.

At least we know that they are being watched like hawks this time around. They will still do what they can do to stop every Democratic vote they can. I know the Democrats are tying to keep Nader off the ballot where ever they can, but as far as I know they are doing this through legitimate reasons why he shouldn't be on the ballot. If I'm wrong about that, well, then I stand corrected.

[liberal_in_GA]

3. PLEASE tell me

the DNC has their lawyers all over this....