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They are already screwing with the vote here in Missouri

by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 7 November 2006

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I just listened to local radio and they had people calling in to report what is happening at polling locations all over the area. The folks from Kansas reported no problems. Missouri was a completely different story.

Some of the problems:

Voters at one polling location were given the wrong ballot. A woman who was running for office came to vote and saw that her name was not on the ballot. So she complained and they changed the ballot. Another voter asked what they were going to do about the voters who had already cast ballots. The poll worker said "It’s been taken care of" When pressed for more info, she repeated (in less than kind voice) "It’s been taken care of".

Voters at another polling location in a low income area showed up to vote and discovered their poll had been moved many blocks away. The reporter said these were elderly voters who had walked to the poll to vote and it was too far for them to walk to the new location. So they walked back home. The reporter went to the new poll and reported this and the workers said all voters were mailed postcards telling them their polling location had been changed. He said well obviously not everyone got that card.

My friend called me at 7 this morning to tell me she had asked for a paper ballot and the poll workers told her they had ballots but no machine to read them. So she had to vote on the touch screen machine. I called the election protection name I had and was told the touch screen machines read the paper ballots, there is no separate machine for this.

Two of my co-workers were told there were no paper ballots available at their polling locations.

Another co-worker reported that she had been asked for ID when she voted this morning. She said ’but I thought that law was thrown out’ and the poll worker said ’show us ID or don’t vote’.

There have already been reports of vote flipping in the St. Louis area by advance voters.

Based on all this nonsense, I am making this prediction: Talent will steal the vote from McCaskill. But I think the stem cell issue will win, the polls show too large of a spread for it to be stolen.
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