VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE found on Travis County Clerk's website

There apparently is an internet rumor going around - the message from our clerk will explain.

A widely circulated Internet message telling people to vote straight party and to vote again for their choice for president needs to be ignored, Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir said. Their vote for president won't count if they do that in Travis County, she said Wednesday.



"We've been hearing about the rumor for the last three weeks, and it's all over the nation," DeBeauvoir said.



The message tells people that if they vote a straight-party ticket for the Democrats, they then also must mark the box for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, she said. In the county's electronic voting machines, that move would deselect the voter's presidential choice, she said.



On Monday, a man was telling voters at a Randalls grocery store at 2025 W. Ben White Blvd. to do the double voting, DeBeauvoir said. After an election official confronted the man, he fled in a Chevrolet Impala covered with stickers for GOP candidate Sen. John McCain and the Republican Party, she said.



DeBeauvoir said that was the only incident of a "polecat" she has heard about in Travis.



If Travis County voters mistakenly vote that way, a message will appear on the screen saying that they have changed their choice, she said. The electronic ballot allows voters to reselect that candidate, which means that their selection will be counted, she said...

What I've been hearing is that is if you select "straight party" it automatically selects McCain for president.

This IS a form of Election Fraud and needs to be reported to the County's Election offices and the Democratic Party's HQ's.