Pima County, Arizaon (Systematic Dirty Tricks, registration problems, provisional ballot problems, absentee ballot problems,intimidation,
student voter problems)
Systematic Diry Tricks mostly in minority areas to confuse voters about correct polling place
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031308 |
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Voter Intimidation |
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A message was left on
voter's phone telling him to go to the wrong polling place. He used the
"last number called" phone service and got the Republican
Headquarters. Voter gave them his son's name (son a registered Republican)
and was told it was a "terrible mistake" and was given the correct
polling information. He heard one other person who also received a phone
message with the wrong polling place. EP volunteers phoned Republican Hdqtrs (321-1492), told them of call. Person answering
said they had heard that someone was leaving their number. EP volunteer
advised the Republican Hdqtrs of the use dof the callback feature. Also see case 031651 -
complaint to EP in |
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031651 |
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Voter Intimidation; Other polling place problem |
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Calls all night about sending Democratic voters to the wrong precient; voters have had to be rounded up and corrected.
1000's of calls. |
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037101 |
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Voter Intimidation |
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Voter received call yesterday of "new polling place".
Voter showed up at #27, far from her home. This is the 2nd person our EP
volunteer encountered. 1st was male who received a letter in the mail
appearing to be from Pima Cty. Another EP volunteer
at this precinct has co-worker who received call identifying themselves as calling from RNC reminding her to vote at
wrong precinct. Voter knew this was wrong and contacted the RNC local HQ and
AZ Star reporter. |
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046334 |
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Voter Intimidation |
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This voter complained that yesterday he received a call from a
person named Mark Leftler from the Republican Party
directing him to the wrong precinct. He claims that he knows several people
this has happened to. ***He has the message recorded at his house.*** He talked to "Tom" at command center (Tom
Carr) and gave him the contact information. He did NOT cast his vote at the
wrong place. Two representatives from the county "Division of
Elections" (Laura is one of them) came to listen to his complaint and
said that they would report it. |
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048149 |
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Other |
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Democrats called voter this morning and told him to vote at
wrong precinct. |
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051110 |
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Registration-related problem; Provisional ballot problem |
Chapel in the Hills 5455 S. Westover, |
Voter not on rolls but stated she thought she was in correct precinct.
Rather than verifying her correct
precinct, by calling the Pima Co. Voter Hotline, the poll workers are telling
voters to cast a provisional ballot, thereby nullifying her vote if she is in
fact in the wrong precinct. |
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038707 |
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Voter Intimidation; Other |
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Democratic poll monitor called 11/1. Received call every one
half hour, "polls open 7a-8p" - incorrect time. Wouldn't identify
self. Calling from 866-766-5507. |
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044349 |
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Registration-related problem |
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Was mailed incorrect
information about where to go. Not on list of registered voters here. |
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046020 |
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Registration-related problem; Other polling place problem |
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Precinct 51 incorrectly
sending people to precinct 27 if they are not on 51's list; not allowing
provisional voting. At least nine voters affected. |
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049494 |
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Polling place inquiry |
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Two young Hispanic
women voters asked if they could vote at this precinct although they knew
they were at the incorrect location. They appeared to be first-time voters,
slightly embarrassed they didn't get to the right location. |
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055584 |
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Polling place inquiry; Other polling place problem |
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At
wrong polling place. Poll workers told him incorrect precinct to go to. |
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057652 |
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Voter Intimidation; Provisional ballot problem; Other polling
place problem; Other Malfeasance |
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church 5951 S 12th , |
Member of National Council of La Raza
went into poll to make sure that there were Spanish ballots available. The |
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040342 |
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Voter Intimidation |
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Flyer being distributed stating: "Reps. vote on Tuesday, Dems. vote on Wednesday" |
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Machine problems/possible malfeasance/long lines
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032474 |
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Machine problem |
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Voting machine not working earlier, now OK. EP volunteer called
County, person not available. |
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039500 |
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Other polling place problem Possible malfeasance |
Our Lady of |
At polling place poll worker checked caller in the log book and
he signed. Another gave him his ballot, but he noticed that there were extra
poll workers writing down what he thinks were voter names in another log book
that was not getting signed by the voters. Doesn't know what the other log
book was. He waited for the poll worker to write down his name but she didn't
instead she told him to go ahead and vote. He thinks he voted -- filled out
ballot and put it into the machine. No receipt. Caller is concerned with why
the poll workers were writing down names in another log book, he has never
seen that before. He is also concerned that their failure to write down his
name will impact whether his vote is counted. |
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039622 |
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Machine problem |
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Clerk of the polling place at |
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042311 |
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Other ballot-related problem; Other polling place problem |
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Caller was given a ballot, filled it out, inserted
it in machine. Machine spit it out repeatedly; voter turned it in, was told
to write "spoiled" on it; completed new ballot and saw that spoiled
ballot said "precinct #144" in two places. Lady at table said it
had happened to others as well. (this
is precinct 235) |
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047868 |
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Other ballot-related problem |
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Poll monitor had airline ticket, rental car and local map who was feeding ballots into voting machine-counter. |
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048063 |
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Machine problem; Other ballot-related problem |
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Scanner rejects ballots. Poll officials then tell voters to put
ballots in upside down. Ballot was then accepted. Voter is concerned that
this means the machine could not have scanned his vote and recorded it
properly. He thinks it may be a systemic problem. Voter was told that the
scanner did not count the votes; if it does, he is concerned that anyone who
inserted ballot upside down would not have a vote counted or improperly
counted. |
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055589 |
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Absentee-ballot related problem; Other polling place problem |
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Early ballot was deposited into an unsecured Tupperware-like
container (no locks). "I did not feel comfortable leaving it and poll
worker would not let me put it in the machine. |
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057616 |
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Machine problem |
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Reported via e-mail to eirhelp: When I
finished filling out my paper ballet this morning I tried to feed it into the
Diebold counter and it wouldn't take it. Election
officials couldn't get the machine to work so I, and everyone behind me,
placed our ballots in a compartment on the side of the machine "to be
recorded later." This was in Tucson, AZ - ward 6 , Cong dist. 07, leg
dist. 27 at Trinity Church , 300 E. University. I hope my vote counted and wanted
this recorded somewhere. Thanks. |
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057860 |
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Machine problem; Other ballot-related problem; Other |
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After completing ballot, machine rejected ballot as
"invalid." |
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057866 |
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Long lines |
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Long Line,
man left to go back to work, "My time is worth more tha this," pulling out in his car. |
Registration Problems/Provisional ballot problems
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043948 |
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Polling place inquiry |
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Voter at wrong precinct. |
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055505 |
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Polling place inquiry |
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Was told she was in the wrong polling place |
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055562 |
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Registration-related problem; Other ballot-related problem;
Polling place inquiry |
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Wrong polling place. Also registered to vote and never received
info. Sent in form over three months ago. Was on the rights polling place
rolls. |
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055566 |
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Polling place inquiry |
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Wrong poll? Voted here last election. Sent across street to pct
134 to see if they can vote there. |
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055572 |
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Registration-related problem; Polling place inquiry |
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Voter was sent to different poll when voter registration card
was inspected. She then sent to wrong poll. Other poll worker called first
poll and told them to check voter list, sent voter back to first (correct)
poll. Voter was able to vote. |
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055584 |
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Polling place inquiry; Other polling place problem |
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At wrong polling place. Poll workers told him incorrect precinct
to go to. |
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057689 |
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Registration-related problem; Voter Intimidation |
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Voter told he was at the wrong precinct. He told me that he had
already tried at one other precinct. |
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057693 |
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Polling place inquiry |
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New citizen voting for the first time. Was told this was correct
poll by phone. When she got here, told she could not vote, wrong poll. |
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057829 |
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Polling place inquiry; Other polling place problem |
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Came to wrong precinct, was not allowed to vote. His wife had
same problem, too. Says he was told over the phone to come
vote at precinct 158, even though he's registered in pct 203. Wife call 520-807-1790 and got WRONG polling place info. |
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057872 |
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Polling place inquiry |
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Came to wrong precinct. |
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057945 |
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Other polling place problem |
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Voter said he had gone to polling place very close to his house
and found out that he couldn't vote there because it was the wrong precinct.
They were doing some paperwork when a poll worker figured out he was in the
wrong precinct. He just wanted to comment that it is annoying that he
couldn't vote at the pollingplace closest to his
house |
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046656 |
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Registration-related problem; Machine problem; Polling place
inquiry |
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051117 |
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Other |
Chapel in the |
The Poll Marshall told us voters can't have the Voter's Bill of
Rights info visible inside the polling place. She said voters have to read it
outside or fold them and put them in their pockets. |
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026175 |
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Registration-related problem; Polling place inquiry |
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registered to vote with his friend at college; friend got his voter
id card but he didn't; doesn't know where to vote or his rights as he has no
info |
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045498 |
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Registration-related problem |
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Said he wasn't registered, although he requested twice (Pima
College & Job Corp). |
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Absentee ballot problems
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034661 |
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Absentee-ballot related problem |
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Lady stormed out. Wouldn't accept EP help. Had mail-in ballot
without affidavit. Told by poll worker "wrong envelope",
"can't vote". Lady left. Poll
worker acknowledged that error was made. |
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035235 |
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Absentee-ballot related problem |
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registered absentee in |
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043964 |
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Absentee-ballot related problem; Other |
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Caller went to assigned polling place in |
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057698 |
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Absentee-ballot related problem |
Enchanted |
Woman came out with mail-in ballor,
said she was told it was in the wrong envelope and that she couldn't vote. On
her way in, yellow mailaing envelope seemed to be
sealed, but not on her way out. She seemed to have a ballot without the
signed affidavit envelope. Other voters dropped off mail-ins without a
problem. |
Voter intimidation
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057890 |
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Voter Intimidation |
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Two women from the Grijalva campaign
drove up behind a guy whom they had followed from another precinct. Someone
had reported that this guy was asking people if they were citizens as they
got out of their cars at the polling place. He was asking to see their ID and
had a cameraman with him who would stick his camera in their faces (up to
6" away) as he asked. When he arrived here, he was alone, except for
some press people who were interviewing/filming him. We didn't see him
approach any voters. He wears a black tee shirt with "US Constitution
Enforcer" in yellow letters. He has a military style belt which gives
the appearance from afar that he is armed but he is not. FOLLOWUP NOTES: Two additinal cTV crews came after
the first two left. Seem to be disruptive and intimidating voters. A van
drove up with a man and a woman in it who stopped, looked at the "hub bub" in the parking lot for a while and then drove
away. ([possible voters?) A couple who did vote told
us that the poll workers are talking loudly to one another and to voters
about what is going on outside - loudly enough to make it difficult to
concentrate on the ballot. |
Pima
County Voter Registrar Chris Roads said on the program that out-of-state
students are committing a felony if they register to vote in
http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=3869