 Rep. Cynthia McKinney did not comment on the misleading phone calls.
 Fourth District candidate Denise Majette turned out about 10 a.m. to cast her vote.
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Posted on 08/20/2002 9:02:36 AM PDT by Coop
Can you say "voter fraud"? I thought you could. Wanna bet McKinney's people are behind this shell game?
That would be the best thing that could happen to Fitz, IMHO. It's the other potential Dem opponents that will be real threats.
Rep. Cynthia McKinney did not comment on the misleading phone calls.
Fourth District candidate Denise Majette turned out about 10 a.m. to cast her vote.
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LOL! However, Je$$e always knows where to go to collect his payoffs and shakedown money.
WAHOOOOOO!
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/metro/election2002/20turnout.html
"ELECTION 2002 PRIMARY
McKinney-Majette matchup sparks heavy voting in Democratic primary
By MIKE MORRIS
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer
With a hotly contested 4th District Congressional race between Cynthia McKinney and Denese Majette, DeKalb County elections officials were reporting a large number of voters casting Democratic ballots in today's primary.
A sampling of precincts showed an overwhelming number of voters choosing the Democratic ballot featuring the McKinney-Majette showdown.
At the Henderson Mill precinct, 300 voters had cast Democratic ballots by 10 a.m., while 54 Republican ballots had been cast, elections officials said.
And the margin was even wider in other precincts, including Rock Chapel (255 Democratic ballots to 7 Republican), Lakeside (220 to 7), Oak Grove (207 to 5) and Coralwood (265 to 13).
Bill Dillon, 67, of Chamblee, who described himself as a "50-year Republican," voted in the Democratic primary because of the race. "If I could vote a thousand times against [McKinney] I would," he said. "I don't dislike her, she's probably a very nice person, but I hate her politics. I'm willing to do everything in my power to keep her from being elected."
Eileen Lichtenfeld, 47, of Dunwoody, said she'd voted for McKinney in the past, but switched this year. "Majette seems very qualified and much more mainstream," she said. "Over the past couple of years, McKinney's taken some extreme positions. I happen to be Jewish, so her endorsement by Louis Farrakhan doesn't help."
Voting at Nancy Creek Elementary School in the 4th Congressional District was steady, poll manager Noreen Zuniga said. About 165 of the 1,200 voters in the precinct had cast ballots by 9 a.m.
"The question we're most often asked is 'Do I vote here still?' We've had several we've had to redirect to other polling places," she said.
Elsewhere across metro Atlanta, a few glitches were reported, and at least one precinct was briefly shut down because of confusion over redistricting.
That confusion prompted the precinct at Margaret Harris High School, off North Druid Hills Road in DeKalb County, to suspend voting for about 20 minutes shortly after opening today, said poll manager Maria Arvelo.
Arvelo said the precinct had recently been moved from the 4th Congressional District to the 5th District, but after several voters came in thinking they were still in the 4th District, "we had to shut the precinct down until we got clarification on it."
"People were confused because there are signs along North Druid Hills saying Cynthia McKinney and Denise Majette, and people were like, 'Well, I wasn't notified [of the change],' " Arvelo said. "But they were notified because their voter's registration says District 5."
She said the precinct, in which four of every five early voters chose Democratic ballots, would remain open an extra 20 minutes -- until 7:20 p.m. -- to make up for the time it closed this morning.
In Cherokee County, elections supervisor Al Stone reported one of his roughest starts of an election day. "We've had some glitches," he said, including instances where voters in newly split precincts turned up at the wrong polling sites. "So far most people are just fine," Stone said. "We show them the map where the lines have been redrawn and they say OK. A few fractious folks want to fuss about it. "They'll say, 'I've always voted here, my daddy voted here and my grandaddy voted here.' But that's changed," Stone said.
Redistricting created 11 new precincts in the county necessitating the training and certifying of 450 poll workers, well above the normal 300 in a gubernatorial election year, Stone said. Some voters had not yet received new precinct cards from the Secretary of State's office telling them of their assigned voting place, said Stone. In another split precinct, a poll manager reported receiving only one ballot style when it should have received two different styles.
"The big thing is that we've increased our number of polling places from 33 to 44. Therefore we had to add poll workers and managers, a lot of inexperienced people," Stone said. "So far today, this has been one of the toughest elections days for us," he said. "I haven't had my cell phone out of my ear. We've been stepping on brush fires."
At the Briarwood Recreation Center in DeKalb County, about 10 people were waiting when the polls opened at 7 a.m. Most of those voting during the first 15 minutes were casting ballots in the Democratic primary, said Dottie Cadenhead, the poll manager. The only early problem was one voter -- the first person in line -- who was at the wrong precinct, Cadenhead said. "He was disappointed, but I think he'll make his way over to another precinct," she said.
At Atlanta's Grady High School, which is the polling place for Precincts 6G and 6K, two of the voting booths for Precinct 6G were inadvertently placed among the 6K booths, but were moved after the problem was noticed, said poll manager William Hammond.
In the first three hours, 89 voters had cast ballots in the Democratic primary, while 15 had voted on the Republican ballot.
In northwest Atlanta, Bill Dennis, poll manager at Morris Brandon Elementary School precinct, said the line upon opening was "about average" for a primary, with about 10 people queued. Dennis said that fewer than 20 people voted during the first 30 minutes. The turnout was even lighter elsewhere.
Only a dozen or so voters had cast ballots by 7:30 at Kimberly Elementary School in southeast Atlanta, poll manager Juanita Peeks said. "We haven't had any problems at all," she said. The secretary of state's office is predicting only about 22 percent of Georgia's registered voters will cast ballots today."
Staff writers Diane Stepp, Bill Montgomery and Amanda Miller contributed to this article.
I know democrats who feel the way about certain conservatives. They actually don't mind very right wing folks who are humble, decent, and unantagonistic. They would if given the choice, vote for them over a bomb thrower who is slightly less conservative in voting record.
I am sick of the bomb throwers, left and right. That is why I am cheering for Majette and Linder today.
No, she's not! She is a powermad - as well as just plain mad - America-hater and, if you're white, she wouldn't p*ss on you if you were on fire.
Maybe all these things backfired on Cindy. But then, she's been on self-destruct for a long time.
If it turns out that the Republican crossovers put Majette over the top, I think the message won't be lost. If she hews too closely to the same radical line as McKinney, she might get the same primary treatment next time around. Perhaps the Republicans can't field a candidate who wins, but if they can play the role of the spoiler, whoever the Democrats elect will have to tread more carefully.
Any idea what this means, if anything? Cross-over for Linder implied, or no?
Thanks for the "news update", though!
Also, why would the 7th district turnout "heavily" influence statewide races? This is all very interesting, even in OHIO!! ;)
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