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Democrat says she felt 'sheer disbelief' after being left off ballot in 1 Arkansas county
by Staff and wire reports | Today at 11:03 a.m.
An Arkansas county temporarily closed most of its early voting sites after the Democratic nominee for secretary of state was left off the ballot, a glitch the candidate said left her in "sheer disbelief."
An official with the Garland County Election Commission said three of the county's four early voting sites were closed at times Monday because ballots did not include Susan Inman, the Democrat running for secretary of state. The sites have since re-opened.
Monday marked the start of early voting for Arkansas' Nov. 6 midterm election.
I received a text from a friend who went to the early voting poll and said my name wasnt on the ballot, Inman said late Monday morning. Of course I was in sheer disbelief.
Inman said she contacted the Garland County Election Commission. Once the Election Commission confirmed that her name was missing from the ballot, however, officials closed the polls, the candidate said.
This should have never happened, Inman said. This is an actual failure of election officials to check their materials.
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https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2018/oct/22/garland-county-shuts-down-early-voting-locations-a/
SWBTATTReg
(22,171 posts)are deliberately messing up ballots too? Can't believe that no one caught this...
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)MiniMe
(21,719 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,958 posts)not any more. This is the only way the repugnant party can win!
Botany
(70,592 posts)n/t
tinrobot
(10,919 posts)Not recently, that's for sure.
TomSlick
(11,110 posts)The Garland County polls were immediately closed when the error was discovered and reopened when the fix was made.
Garland County is not a rabid GOP stronghold I am sure this was a simple error.
Mr.Bill
(24,330 posts)People have voted for that office without her being there as one of the choices.
Short of tossing all the ballots that have been cast and then letting those voters re-vote, I don't know what could be done. Even that wouldn't be a perfect fix, because some of them may not vote again.
TomSlick
(11,110 posts)Once the error was discovered, they did the best that could be done.
benld74
(9,910 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,049 posts)Where it was supposed to say "Select no more than two", it said, "Select no more than three".
Voters were sent a new ballot that only included selections for that office.