[Paleo Conservative]

Admin Moderator. I know this may be a "vanity" thread, but I am reporting events that I actually witnessed.

[MineralMan]

The Motor Voter thing doesn't work very well here in Minnesota, either. When I moved here, I checked the box when I got my MN driver's license. It was quite a while before the election. I never got a registration card.

I called the registrar of voters and asked about it. The person I talked to said that the Motor Vehicle people sent those registrations in about once a year, to the Secretary of State's office, and that I should register again. I did, and got my registration card a week later.

The more people in the loop, the worse the results, it seems.

[FNG]

This happened to me in White Oak, TX. I was not allowed to use a provisional ballot, but told to register for next time. I filed a complaint with the state office last night. This needs to be investigated. I posted this earlier here and the thread got pulled. Maybe because I posted this last night in chat, but meant to put it here. Anyway, the polling official said this happened to "a lot of people."

[Bigun]

I am an election judge in another part of Texas and can testify to this as well.

I did more provisional ballots yesterday than I ever have in more than 20 years of doing this and EVERY one of them were caused by this BS. After the folks who had to endure this process had voted, I told every one of them that even tho this provisional ballot process you have just completed is supposed to ensure your being registered at your new address, DON'T count on it! Go physically to the voter registrars office and make SURE that you are registered.

[Paleo Conservative]

Here's another thread from last night about a Freeper who was denied the right to vote due to screw ups by the DPS. It wasn' just the precinct I was working in yesterday that had problems.

FREEPER DENIED RIGHT TO VOTE (TX)

Posted on 11/07/2006 8:19:26 PM CST by FNG

I just stood in line an hour to vote here in TX, and I was denied a vote because I was not registered. I put in for registration when I changed my TDL address, but it was never processed. The official at the polls told me it happened to a bunch of people. I live in Gregg county, and the DPS office is in Longview. I'm planning on calling the state number and complaining. If I were not a Caucasian Republican, I'd have an army down here tomorrow and make the news. This SUCKS. FNG out.

[deport]

This isn't the only thing that ought to be automatic in todays computer age. There should be an automatic notice filed with the registrar of voters when a death certificate is filed with the county, same with any felony conviction via the courts, etc. and probably others that should be automatically reported.

[WildBill2275]

Having drinks with neighbors last night while we got depressed anticipating results.
One of my neighbors had renewed his drivers license and indicated register (motor voter). Unfortunately our post office had changed (to another county) but not our physical addresses . He had to file provisional ballot because it messed up his registration.
Motor voter -- may be good idea in urban areas but messed up in rural areas where post office town may not match physical address town.

[DrewsDad]

I worked as an election judge and heard this over and over. We probably had about 80 Change of Address Forms and had to send several voters to other precincts to vote. Every change of address gets called in and the number was busy for up to 15 minutes sometimes. When you actually got through, you were put on hold for up to 10 more minutes. Meanwhile voters have to sit there and wait.

After the line started stacking up we went down the line and tried to process as many address changes as we could while we were on the line. We ended up with 8 provisional voters who already had enough and didn't want to be sent elsewhere. Anyone who moved between counties was pretty much denied the right to vote on anything.