Ballot Cast by Ned Lamont's Daughter is Thrown Out

GREENWICH, CONNECTICUT (AP) -- If your dad is running for the United States Senate, you might want to make sure you're properly registered so you can vote for him. But that's apparently not the case with Ned Lamont's daughter.

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A well known Republican activist who gives regularly to the party?

Whoops! That's the Ohio standard, not Connecticut.

Anyway, since she's registered without party affiliation, at least she can vote for Lieberman. Wait! She missed her chance.

Try again in November.

shes gorgeous. Id vote for him just for having reproduced that compliment to the female gender.

linky?

...as opposed to what appears a forced death-rictus "grin." :eyes: But she is cute...and entirely too young and rich (not to mention flaky, apparently) for the likes of me!

i wonder if his campaign needs an extra hand...:) :)

...gloat about your youth and wealth to the old, poor guy. Young whippersnapper!

Election officials in Greenwich, Connecticut, are disqualifying her vote in this week's Democratic primary. Seems that when 19-year-old Emily Lamont registered, she didn't choose a party affiliation.

The primary was open only to registered Democrats.

When the teen showed up at the polls, workers let her cast a provisional ballot, which they're now disqualifying. But it won't hurt daddy. Ned Lamont is still the winner, having beaten Senator Joe Lieberman by a comfortable margin.

for voter registration? If one has to register with a particular party, then, it would seem that the voter registrar is partly at fault for not pointing out the omission.

Or, do non-affiliated voters give up the right to vote in CT primaries?

I live in GA where there is no party registration. However, if one votes a particular party in the primary one must vote in that party's runoff election. THe general election is wide open.

A primary is supposed to be where members of the party pick who they want to represent them in the general election. If you want to be an indie, then you get to chose between the representatives the parties chose to run. There is no "right to vote" in a party's primary that you are not a member of.

It seems I have to repeat this speech every primary when I work at the polls. Someone is always indignant after fervently claiming "indie" and then being presented with a ballot that only includes any issues that are being voted on. They then suddenly want to claim a party, after having legally signed the poll book stating their party affiliation as "indie". We call that election fraud in the business.

I just think this is simple careless move by a new voter in CT. She gets a chance to vote for her Dad soon enough.

It's a closed primary, which is how I think primaries should be run. They can't count her vote just because of who she is related to.

was not a Democrat. He's new to the Brooklyn DTC and he thought that the DTC Chair had checked his voter registration before he joined the DTC in March of this year. Guess the DTC chair didn't do this minor check.

When he registered to vote after moving to Brooklyn a while ago, he forgot to mark party affiliation.

At the district in my town where I held a sign for Ned Lamont, a few independents told me that they forgot to change their registration also. Emily Lamont wasn't the only one. Independents had until noon on Monday, August 7 to change to Democrat.