Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Chelsea Clinton runs into voting problems
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A famous political name does not guarantee hassle-free voting, as former "first daughter" Chelsea Clinton discovered Tuesday.
She turned up shortly after 6 a.m. at her polling site on West 20th Street -- in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan -- only to be told her name was not in the voter registration books there, a voting official said.
It turned out the registration book for her district had been mistakenly sent to the wrong location, said New York City Board of Elections Executive Director John Ravitz.
She filed an affidavit vote -- a paper ballot that allows election workers to confirm that a voter is properly registered after their vote is cast. If the voter is not registered, the vote is not accepted.
OMG. Now the Clintons are getting in on the "wacky election" act. Kind of like Chelsea was right there on 9/11.
We need to clamp down on this constant fighting over election results. The peaceful transfer of power is fundamental. Every election since 2000, the (Dem) complaints/funny tricks seem to get more widespread.