Posted on 10/10/2004 6:28:13 AM PDT by foolscap
Oct. 18 issue - It's just about impossible to stop Claude Hawkins from voting. The 24-year-old supply store clerk from Kansas City, Mo., was so enthusiastic about this year's election that he registered to vote three times, just to make sure his application wasn't lost. But when he showed up to vote in the state's Democratic primary last August, the poll worker told him he wasn't on the list. She offered to check with the board of elections. Instead, he decided to leave and go to the local union hall, where he'd voted in 2000. They couldn't find his name, either, even though the voter-registration card he presented listed his ward and precinct. He was given a list of all the local polling places. Hawkins went to the one closest to his house. Nope, wrong again. Finally, he trudged over to the last place he knew of in the area, a Methodist church. Sorry. When he explained the situation, a poll worker took pity on him and gave him a provisional ballot. Fill it out, he was told, and it would be counted later.
He went home, a bit bewildered, but relieved and pleased with his determination. The feeling didn't last long. A few days after the election, he got a call from a Democratic Party lawyer who told him his ballot had been thrown out because he'd voted in the wrong place. The final insult soon arrived in the mail: it was a postcard, days late, telling him the name of his official polling place. "I've seen a lot of people walk away from the polls," he says. The city eventually agreed to count his vote. Hawkins and other voters sued to get the rules straightened out before Nov. 2...
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Here it comes..
Clean count forget it!
Registered to vote 3 times?????
Did I misread that?
Hmmmm. I can't understand why the local elections board might have had a problem with this guys voter registration.
/sarcasm
What did I read, the 'Rats have 25,000 lawyer greasing up and waiting. This election is going to suck. I'll need more Zantac...
I think with 3 registrations floating around, suspicion of fraud would force ANY voting officer to put him on the NO WAY list.
Al Gore?
Why would anyone register three times unless they had cheating in mind? Another question: Why is it that Democrats are the only ones having difficulty with voting? Intellect?
What did I read, the 'Rats have 25,000 lawyer greasing up and waiting
AlGore just sent a bunch of them to Austrailia.
Mr. Carter, and I use the term Mr. lightly, has said that before. We have to have a big margin we win by.
These people are evil.
He registered three times and now complains he can't vote? I wouldn't even let him on an airplane.
Perhaps it's the realization that "regrettable voting mistakes" happen.
Sort of when you go in to the booth to vote for Albert Gore Jr. and in a last moment, and purely by accident of course, pull the lever for the opposition.
I hate it when that happens.
When people re-register, there shouldn't be duplicates, but if it is anything like L.A., they don't have the manpower to check it.
So they say.
Even the most asleep-at-the-switch board would have reason to question that one.
My husband evidently registered to vote twice (without knowing he had done so).
He was naturalized as a US citizen (had been a Canadian with a green card but decided to become an American after 9/11) and filled out a form that was given him at his Naturalization Oath Ceremony and mailed it in.
Then when he got his driver's license later that year, they asked if his immigration status had changed, he said yes, produced his Naturalization papers, and they must have registered him again.
We received two identical voter ID cards in the mail.
BUT, both had same polling place listed, and when he went to the polling place he was only listed on the roll once.
You could register more than once and not cause an issue, as long as you used the same address.
However, if you registerd more than once, and used different addresses, I wonder what kind of checks and balances the county does.
In Florida, you have to show two forms of ID (voter ID and photo ID), so it would be hard to pull this type of fraud off unless you could get numerous driver's license with different addresses.
Its hard to tell in NH.
The coast and border of NH has been populated by many refugess from Taxachusetts who, immediately upon relocating to NH, start voting the way they did in Taxachusetts, thus re-creating the reasons they left Taxachusetts in the first place. I've had a couple Kerry idiots knock at the door, but mostly, I see Bush signs.
I have not heard how many Lawyers the Pubbies have in the wings versus the 25,000 the 'Rats have lined up. I would imagine at least several thousand. But given the prediliction of the ACLU and the trial lawyer groups for 'Rat policies, I'm sure the Pubbies are somewhat less supported.
It's really going to hit the fan on Nov 3rd!
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