A poll worker started choking a voter for turning in a incomplete ballot

[Robbien]

When Steitz, who was being paid to work the election and assist voters, looked at the rejected ballot, he told Miller it didn’t go through because he’d left all the judge elections blank.

After Miller insisted that he did not have to vote for the judges, Steitz allegedly assaulted him, Yates said. (Voters can cast ballots in any or all of the races, as they see fit.)

Steitz is accused of choking Miller and then pushing him out of the polling place, said Paula McCraney, a spokeswoman for the Jefferson County Clerk.

Another worker at the location called the main election office to report the incident and election officials sent sheriffs’ deputies to relieve Steitz of his duties, McCraney said.

When deputies arrived, Miller came back inside the polling place and asked that charges be filed against Steitz, McCraney said.

Yates said once the charges were filed Miller was allowed to cast a new ballot.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061107/NEWS0106/61107078

Yikes. Voting is now a contact sport.

[dysfunctional press]

1. i ALWAYS vote "NO" on the retention of ALL judges.

it's my thing.

[bluedogyellowdog]

6. I do too

This practice of voting "up or down" in judicial races is anti-democratic - it's how things are done in one-party communist countries and in shareholder elections for corporate boards of directors, not in a liberal democracy. I vote no on retention of all judges as a protest against a one-candidate race with an "up or down" vote. It's a matter of principle. Not all states do their judicial races like this. Some do.

[2Design]

8. Florida had a bunch of liberal judges and many want them out

When I researched ahead - they are liberals and vote the law not like republicans - and there were sites to get them out - so voting no can have consequences you do not want

[ailsagirl]

2. Good grief!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kikosexy2]

3. Voting is ...

getting violent....Are we voting in Africa or the U.S.?...

[yellowdoggess]

4. This is Kentucky, where

"politics are the damnest in Kentucky"....Jesse Stuart

[Gabi Hayes]

5. pretty funny, cause I just voted, and did the EXACT same thing.

we have a separate ballot for judge retention, and I told them I didn't want to vote on any of them. they gave me a funny look, but took my ballots (paper), put them through the machine (with a little hassle because of the blank ballot), and that was that

one other thing: the person next to me had her registration challenged, and the pollworker, who looked like a pug, showed me her signature, which wasn't even close to the one on her registration. she went to the car to get ID, but I didn't see her return.

[Imalittleteapot]

7. Mostly uncontested R judges here. Voted only

for R opponents - maybe 2 or 3 judges. I left a lot of blanks on the judge side of the ballot.