Montgomery County, Ohio (Long lines and polling place irregularities, dirty tricks, registration problems, absentee ballot
and provisional ballot problems, suppression of minorities, possible fraud)
Additional documentation at end
Polling Place irregularities
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053881 |
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Other ballot-related problem |
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Caller states there was no slot for Kerry/Edwards on his ballot.
NAACP is on its way out there. |
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053622 |
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Other polling place problem |
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Machines for two precincts are in same line; very confusing.
Voter voted in wrong precinct and wanted to ensure her vote would count. |
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051646 |
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Other ballot-related problem; Other polling place problem |
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The top of her ballot was torn off by an election official. The
official only tore the top off of some ballots, NOT all. |
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049435 |
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Other ballot-related problem |
Greater |
Poll worker ripped ballot in half, making it impossible for
voting machine to properly accept ballot. Poll worker refused to give a new
ballot after disabling ballot of caller and several other voters |
Long lines
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039491 |
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Long lines |
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Polling place is operating inefficiently and very slowly. Voters
were leaving polling site in frustration. Election officials were very rude. |
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040827 |
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Long lines |
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Over two hour wait. |
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044566 |
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Long lines; Polling place inquiry |
YMCA |
Polling staff (only 3) were very confused. Long lines, lack of
direction |
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052541 |
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Other polling place problem Long lines |
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Election official made everyone iin
the line show id. |
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052641 |
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Long lines |
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1 hour and a half waiting times |
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060389 |
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Other polling place problem |
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Caller left message in 12/04. Caller lives in rural area outside
of |
Dirty tricks, intimidation, minority suppression, possible fraud
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021944 |
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Other ballot-related problem |
Maria Joseph Nursery Ctr., |
Employer telling employees they can vote at job site. |
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031262 |
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Voter Intimidation |
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Challenged vote-updated vote, challengers were taking names,
very predominately black district. Verbally challenged one man. Challenger
didn't give info on himself. Will my vote count? Very angry. |
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016193 |
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Registration-related problem |
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Household receives info and registration card for person who
doesn't live there. Have reported the problem for 2 years with no success.
Wants to know what to do. |
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051410 |
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Other ballot-related problem |
0092 |
he got the ballot missing
the first page, then he got a page that didn't match the others. |
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051581 |
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Other |
first united methodist |
when she was given a
ballot, it had already been filled out. concerned
that they voided a ballot. |
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051605 |
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Other |
grafton oaks nursing center, |
2 voters were told by
election officials to give punch-card ballots to another individual, who had
no id or badge. voter was told that individual would
put ballot in yellow bag. votger
asked to watch ballot placed in bag and was told youll
be waiting a long time. individual was taking ballot out of sleeve |
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051706 |
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Voter Intimidation |
huber heights library , |
went to 6160 chbersburg
Rd. |
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050984 |
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Registration-related problem |
anna k wantz school, 115
s |
someone else had signed the spot where the voter should have
signed |
Registration Problems/Provisional ballot problems
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017452 |
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Registration-related problem |
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Wants his voter registration card -- has not received it |
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019200 |
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Registration-related problem |
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Caller called on behalf of her daughter who registered through a
registration drive, but never received a registration card. The daughter
called the local elections office and was told they had no record of her
being registered. |
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025063 |
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Registration-related problem |
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She has registered and they cannot find her--she registered in aug and sept with rock the vote-- |
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034326 |
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Registration-related problem |
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Caller registered to vote, but has not yet received a voter
registration card. |
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037179 |
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Registration-related problem; Provisional ballot problem |
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voter not on roll - voted in same location
many years - voter is elderly african-american She
was not on the rolls and voted by provisional ballot... |
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043911 |
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Registration-related problem |
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She was told that she was not registered even though she voted
at the site before |
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050976 |
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Other |
nw priority board, 2178 N gettyburg,
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voter went to new polling place. told he needed to go to his old polling place. information not accurate. he
should have been told to update his address and vote on a provisional ballot. |
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051322 |
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Registration-related problem |
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Went to correct polling place and they told her she was supossed to go to another polling place. She went there
and they sent her to a third place. |
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052492 |
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Registration-related problem |
baptist church - corner of spinning burkhart, |
even though she voted four years ago, she was told
that she hadn't voted since 1993 and therefore deleted her from the register. |
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053254 |
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Registration-related problem |
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Not allowed to vote was registered for last electioin
but is not registered now |
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053290 |
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Provisional ballot problem |
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Some form with provisonal (sticky) to
go on envelope before accepting did not give form did not put on ballot. Ran
out of provisional ballot form with signature, so just signed ballot. Wants
to know if her vote will count without these two forms |
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053573 |
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Registration-related problem |
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she lives in |
Absemtee ballot problems
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016051 |
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Absentee-ballot related problem |
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son in |
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019235 |
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Absentee-ballot related problem |
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Caller requested an
absentee ballot but it never arrived. She thinks it was stolen from her
mailbox by someone who has stolen information before. |
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021237 |
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Absentee-ballot related problem |
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the polling places noted
have not been sending absentee ballots. party
registered for absentee and ballot went out but never arrived. party concerned they will not be able to vote and there is
attempted prevention of voting. would like field person monitor |
http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=3906
Green observer at Montgomery
County Recount:
"It seemed
that the process was less an attempt to see if the machines could accurately
read the punchcards and more of an exercise in
ensuring artificially that the hand recount and machine tabulation of the same
three percent sample were a match."
"Hanging chads,
which caused so many problems in
"Of course the hand recount will
match the computer tabulation of the same three percent sample
if the ballots are prepped to ensure that the machine cannot possibly misread
the chosen sample."
"If the change in the three
percent sample is considered statistically relevant and is extended to the full
100% of the vote, it would result in a pickup of greater than 250 votes for
Kerry."
"The staff was willing and able
to show us anything we requested and provide us with printouts of all critical
data. We even were able to receive the list of rejected provisional ballots
with each individual's personal information." in
"[The] "undervotes"
for which a candidate was designated and voter intent was clear heavily favored
Kerry."
"In some precincts that ran out of envelopes (which bear a code
distinguishing the correct precinct), envelopes were borrowed from neighboring
precincts."
"While the envelope may not have
been correct for a given voter, in certain cases the ballot itself was for the
correct precinct and as such the vote was counted."
Additional notes:
Despite clearly distinguishable voter intent, pursuant to