Cleveland Paper Cites Voter Problems - Democratic Underground

RaRa

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Fri Dec-10-04 03:09 PM
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Cleveland Paper Cites Voter Problems

Edited on Fri Dec-10-04 03:10 PM by RaRa

"CLEVELAND - A polling place that served two adjoining precincts counted hundreds of votes for fringe presidential candidates Nov. 2, apparently because poll workers didn't instruct voters to use only the machines for their precinct, a newspaper reported Friday."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=536&e=6&u=/ap/20041210/ap_on_el_ge/voting_problems

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Judi Lynn

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Fri Dec-10-04 03:17 PM
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1. This couldn't happen in Ohio! Guess what, Democrats took it in the shorts.

Once again! How can that happen? From the article:

At the two precincts located at Benedictine, both heavily Democratic, Libertarian Michael Badnarik received 164 votes, almost half as many as Kerry, who got 334. In the adjacent precinct, Constitution Party candidate Michael Peroutka received 215 votes to Kerry's 299.

Because most of the problems occurred in heavily Democratic precincts, the errors seem to have cost votes for Kerry, the newspaper reported.

Michael Vu, Cuyahoga County's election director, said the findings would be investigated, and said they showed the need for more poll worker training.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041210/ap_on_el_ge/voting_problems

Don't overlook rating the story if you are so disposed!

Thanks, RaRa.

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Syrinx

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Fri Dec-10-04 03:21 PM
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2. here's the link to the article referenced

http://www.cleveland.com/election/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1102674912293811.xml

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Fri Dec-10-04 03:25 PM
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3. Duplicate

The original article

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1060398

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