Election Day Problems?

[progressnerd.livejournal.com]

I figure you might enjoy a thread for your Election Day problems and oddities. I'll start with one of mine: Why exactly are poll workers instructing voters to remove their ballots entirely from the privacy sleeves before feeding them into the optical scan machines? The point of the privacy sleeve is to ensure your vote isn't bought or coerced, so removing it where it's in plain view entirely defeats the purpose. If you're going to ask us to remove it, might as well not give us one at all. I disobeyed the instruction and fed in my ballot directly from the sleeve, without a hitch as usual. I've tried calling the Elections Department to ask about this bizarre practice, but not surprisingly, I just get a busy signal.

Any problems you found?

Comments

[emcicle.livejournal.com]

this happened to me when i went. My husband was on the list, but I was not. I'm not a newly registered voter, we've lived here 8 years, voted in all elections, including the primaries. by the time I went, they had an "updated list" to check and I was on that, so it didn't cause a problem. but i imagine it was quite annoying early in the morning.

[sundaisy-summer.livejournal.com]

yeah, according to your report and to what the news said there seemed to be no rhyme or reason to who was mysteriously removed from the lists. It wasn't merely an accidental error in updating the lists to include new residents. So strange and hopefully it didn't deter anyone from not voting if they had trouble!

[ron_newman]

The Mass. Secretary of State's office claims they gave four CDs to the Cambridge Election Department to print out, and Cambridge printed out only three of them.

[sundaisy-summer.livejournal.com]

Good to know the cause and that it was a trackable error!!!