heartSoul
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| Tue 11/04/08 11:39 AM |
By KSPR News
Story Created: Nov 4, 2008
Story Updated: Nov 4, 2008
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Voters in some Kansas City precincts had to spend extra time in already long lines this morning because poll workers were given the wrong voter registration books.
Voters at All Souls Church at 45th and Walnut Streets and at a polling place in Westport were told by poll workers that they were not on the list of registered voters for that polling place. There also were unconfirmed reports of other precincts suffering similar problems.
The problems caused delays in what was already expected to be a busy day at the polls.
Lines at polling places across Missouri formed well before dawn, with voters showing up in the dark with chairs, books and plenty of coffee.
http://www.kspr.com/news/local/33834934.html
My oldest child had to vote provisional because my child's name wasn't in the book.
It seems being registered doesn't guarantee that they let you vote.
Odd things happening at a few places in KC and the suburbs.
Anything strange happen where your voting today?
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Edited by heartSoul on Tue 11/04/08 11:39 AM
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reydar
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| Tue 11/04/08 11:41 AM |
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Republicans hard at work here... let me tell you.. those areas are majority "minority democratic areas" thats republicans at work.
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polaritybear
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| Tue 11/04/08 11:49 AM |
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Smooth sailing, no lines at all.
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heartSoul
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| Tue 11/04/08 12:07 PM |
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Republicans hard at work here... let me tell you.. those areas are majority "minority democratic areas" thats republicans at work.
happening in precincts were it's both parties
has nothing to do with one affiliation or the other
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reydar
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| Tue 11/04/08 12:08 PM |
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well, just a little fyi.. I live in this area (kc metro and the two precincts you referred to in the article were both lower income areas.
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heartSoul
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| Tue 11/04/08 12:21 PM |
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well, just a little fyi.. I live in this area (kc metro and the two precincts you referred to in the article were both lower income areas.
the article may be referring to that but I have friends that live all around the area and it's happening
happened to my child and that's not in the low income area
that should not be an issue anyway
just because someone is low income doesn't mean they are democrat
I know a lot of republicans that are low to middle income
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becca777
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Winx
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| Tue 11/04/08 12:30 PM |
We put the ballots into a new machine. It just sucks the ballot right into it. It used to be a box.
It spit mine out a few times. It wouldn't even take another person's ballot. The person working there didn't know what to do about it.
It only took me 30 minutes to vote. But..I have friends that voted very early in the morning and it took them 1 and 1/2 to 2 hours to vote.
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heartSoul
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| Tue 11/04/08 12:36 PM |
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We put the ballots into a new machine. It just sucks the ballot right into it. It used to be a box.
It spit mine out a few times. It wouldn't even take another person's ballot. The person working there didn't know what to do about it.
It only took me 30 minutes to vote. But..I have friends that voted very early in the morning and it took them 1 and 1/2 to 2 hours to vote.
friends I know have had problems voting today
I told them not to give up
hang in there it's too important to just shrug off
also
it's strange
there were to different ways of voting
my parents had the little stick that makes the holes and I hand a stamp like a little permanent marker
I thought that was strange, but the light turned green so my vote counted
I guess that's all that matters
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Winx
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| Tue 11/04/08 12:38 PM |
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QUOTE:
QUOTE:
We put the ballots into a new machine. It just sucks the ballot right into it. It used to be a box.
It spit mine out a few times. It wouldn't even take another person's ballot. The person working there didn't know what to do about it.
It only took me 30 minutes to vote. But..I have friends that voted very early in the morning and it took them 1 and 1/2 to 2 hours to vote.
friends I know have had problems voting today
I told them not to give up
hang in there it's too important to just shrug off
also
it's strange
there were to different ways of voting
my parents had the little stick that makes the holes and I hand a stamp like a little permanent marker
I thought that was strange, but the light turned green so my vote counted
I guess that's all that matters
A light turned green? What light?
I used a pen to color in the circles. The only other choice was the new machines.
I didn't know that there were so many ways to do it.
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heartSoul
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| Tue 11/04/08 12:40 PM |
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QUOTE:
QUOTE:
QUOTE:
We put the ballots into a new machine. It just sucks the ballot right into it. It used to be a box.
It spit mine out a few times. It wouldn't even take another person's ballot. The person working there didn't know what to do about it.
It only took me 30 minutes to vote. But..I have friends that voted very early in the morning and it took them 1 and 1/2 to 2 hours to vote.
friends I know have had problems voting today
I told them not to give up
hang in there it's too important to just shrug off
also
it's strange
there were to different ways of voting
my parents had the little stick that makes the holes and I hand a stamp like a little permanent marker
I thought that was strange, but the light turned green so my vote counted
I guess that's all that matters
A light turned green? What light?
I used a pen to color in the circles. The only other choice was the new machines.
I didn't know that there were so many ways to do it.
you know the light that means go
they are doing it 2 ways at the precinct I went to
I couldn't make a whole in my ballot no mater how hard I tried
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