Some more polling problems today -
A friend of mine in Illinois was told today by the poll worker that he had to see a drivers license "to prove your citizenship" - obviously a DL doesn't "prove" that, and in Illinois other identifications are allowed aside from a DL.
There was one polling place in a city school cafeteria, where there was a huge mural of Obama with "hope change" on one wall, with the Obama logo. Clearly can't have that, it's "electioneering within 300 feet". It was covered.
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Precincts throughout New York City, including many unaffected by last week’s storm, had lines of voters stretching for blocks. In many cases, this was because scanners had broken down or there were simply not enough poll workers to accommodate the perfectly predictable big crowds. As Mayor Bloomberg (a frequent critic of the board) put it, “I kept hearing, ‘What’s this, a third-world country?’ ”
A poll worker on the Upper East Side couldn’t find Mr. Bloomberg’s name in the voter rolls, so she gave the book to him to let him find his own name. Mayor or not, that violates the rules.
Voters were being turned away in Pennsylvania for not having a photo ID card, even though that requirement isn’t in effect for this election.
A voter in the Cincinnati suburb of Norwood walked into a polling place and was handed a “sample ballot guide.” It turned out to be a guide on how to vote Republican on every question, from a party worker electioneering (illegally) inside the polling place.
Ohio’s election board made a serious error and falsely told thousands of people they were not registered. Rather than fix the problem, state officials decided those people would have to use provisional ballots, which will not be counted for two weeks.
Some Latino voters in Arizona who thought they registered on the same day they got United States citizenship were not on the rolls. One Latino voter was asked by a poll worker who she planned to vote for.
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/...-at-the-polls/
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