Voting issues
Exactly unlike city taxis, the reports of voting problems are rolling in today...
We heard this in the 9th ward:
"I'm registered Independent. I went to vote in District 4, but was not allowed to. I said that I should be able to vote for the two questions, and the poll workers said "they" said I wasn't allowed to. I called Voter Registration and they said they'd call the election site and tell them that independents are allowed to vote on the two questions."
She plans to go back to try again tonight. Good for her.
Atrios has commented that:
"both machines at the Weccacoe Playground polling place are broken."
Classic.
And here's an interesting one:
"A woman said she went to vote in the 13th ward, 11 division and none of the machines worked. They were given written ballots." The, um, unusual part of this is that to fill out the ballots, they had to sit in kindergarten chairs... and, according to this caller, not many people there could read the paper ballots.
Posted by wendy at May 16, 2006 01:05 PM
I heard that ALL the machines are down. A friend of mine went to vote in West Philly. I am going after work. What is going on??? Why is there no reaction from the press? This is disgraceful. Since the 2000 election, it's getting more and more difficult to vote in this country. It's bad enough that Casey is the annointed candidate in the Dem party. Those of us who would like to make a statement in this primary may not even be heard.
