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- From: roder@cco.caltech.edu (Brenda J. Roder)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Not being allowed to vote.
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 01:15:41 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- lfinkelstein@vax.clarku.edu writes:
-
- >A friend of mine showed up at the poles to vote in the Presidential election.
- >After spending quite a while on line he was told that he couldn't vote because
- >they had sent him an absentee ballot. He never requested an absentee ballot,
- >and never got one. He wondered if maybe his family had registered him as an
- >absentee, but was told that only he could do that.
- >After much arguing he was still not allowed to vote.
-
- I had this happen once because I _had_ requested an absentee ballot and then
- came home again in time for the election. I meant to bring it back with me
- so that they could see I hadn't used it, but forgot and left in in New Jersey
- (I live in CA). I went to the polls and they looked in up in their book.
- I was quite impressed, there was an entry for "absentee voter shows up at polls
- without absentee ballot". They let me vote, but placed my ballot in a special
- envelope with my name outside it. Presumably, they checked that no absentee
- ballot was received from me before adding my ballot to the rest of the batch.
- So, perhaps it depends on the state rules or on the competence of the polling
- place workers.
-
- --
- -- Brenda (roder@cobalt.caltech.edu)
- Thought before action, if there's time.
- _The Edge_ Dick Francis
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