Up To 160 Votes Not Counted Due To Voting Center Error In Oakland

Associated Press via CBS13 Sacramento ^ | November 14, 2020 at 8:52 pm | CBS Local Staff

[thecodont]

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP/CBS13) — Poll workers at a voting site in Oakland incorrectly told up to 200 people that their paper ballot was only a receipt and that it could be taken home, leading to the votes not being counted, a coalition of voting rights advocates alleged in a complaint to Alameda County’s registrar of voters.

The groups said the errors occurred on the campus of Mills College, where some voters who used an electronic device to mark their ballot were wrongly told it was keeping a digital record of their selections on federal, state and local races and that a printout of their votes was their “receipt” to take home. In reality, the printout needed to be handed to poll voters in order for their ballots to be counted, representatives of 15 civil rights and voting rights groups wrote in a letter Thursday to Tim Dupuis, the county registrar of voters.

In a news release on Friday, Dupuis said the number of affected voters was at most 160 and said 22 of the ballots mistakenly taken home had been recovered by his staff.

“So far, the number of ballots that may have been retained is not sufficient to determine the outcome of any race,” Dupuis said in the statement.

He said there was no indication the problem arose at any other vote center.

[thecodont]

So much for voting in person, eh!

I don’t believe this was an isolated incident.

[tinyowl]

This is called ‘praising with faint damnation.’ These little things are actually good stories for the left ... these are things that could happen in an honest election.

[thecodont]

Yes, but the little admissions are geared to keep everyone’s eyes away from the bigger steal, I agree with you there.

For all the elections I’ve witnessed in this neighborhood/state, I’ve never seen a story admitting to mistakes like that. Only this year.

[tinyowl]

Yeah and/but certainly did not mean to knock your post at all, thanks for posting ... the FACT that it could be from an honest election -> there's no way the IRS would allow a BUSINESS to account for itself the way elections have been allowed to run. Both parties are equally guilty really for the fact that the bank has been left unlocked at night. Probably many Republican's have bought some help from Dominion or similar scams too.

But certainly also ... well with the Republicans they are spineless in general and given to sin, but still see it as a flaw. With the Dems, though, sin is a strength and virtue is for losers. At least the Republicans have some, if not enough, shame.

Mankind is beautiful ... but he is also utterly disgusting :-)

As for this election, it's patently obvious that Trump won it unless we've entered a universe where statistical deviations are the norm ... and we haven't.