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To: Disambiguator

770 said more ballots being printed/delivered. Still, damage done.


84 posted on 11/07/2006 11:09:17 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Dancing through life like a street mime with tourettes syndrome.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim; Disambiguator
Not a peep of this from the Journal. From the AbqTrib:

Enough is not quite enough

When U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson showed up at the Church of the Good Shepherd off Tramway Boulevard Northeast to encourage voters in the heavily Republican district to vote, she encountered a stream of voters saying they didn't have a chance.

Precinct 603 had run out of ballots. In a district with more than 2,000 registered voters, Precinct 603 had received 150 paper ballots, said precinct worker Linda Ransom.

Polls opened at 7 a.m. and it quickly became obvious there weren't enough ballots, Ransom said. By 8 a.m., poll workers had called Bernalillo County requesting more. By 9 a.m. the precinct was out.

Beyond the area in which electioneering is prohibited, Wilson workers took the names of voters who had been turned away. A representative of Wilson's challenger, Democratic Attorney General Patricia Madrid, stood nearby.

Additional ballots arrived shortly before 10 a.m. and voting resumed, but Wilson called a news conference for 10:30 to discuss the matter.


This and other election day stories here:
The glitches of Election Day...

85 posted on 11/07/2006 11:34:06 AM PST by CedarDave ("O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." ~ Voltaire. "Will John Kerry do?" - Lord (courtesy catpuppy))
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