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In reply to the discussion: 'It was just chaos': Broken machines, incomplete voter rolls leave some wondering whether their ball [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)The numbers of new voters, newly registered in the weeks before the election were large and therefore the printed lists of voters at the polls were not up-to-date and omitted the names of new voters.
Also, decline-to-state-party-preference voters were, as we understood it, allowed to vote in the Democratic Primary and to come into the polling place to pick up a Democratic ballot. But, at the polls many poll workers gave them the pink, provisional ballots. The pink, provisional ballots will not be counted for 21 days.
Whatever the "final" results tonight are will not really be final. I cannot say how much the total will change when the provisionals have been counted after 21 days, but it will change.
We shall see. I worked election protection before. There were problems. In Ohio in 2008, there were two precincts in the polling station in which I observed the election. One precinct was mostly African-American and the other was mostly white. I will let you guess in which precinct the machines "broke down," which group of voters had to wait and wait for the machines to be "repaired." It should not be difficult to figure it out.
Today was worse than that.