I got an email from a co-worker from one of our sub-offices where she related her voting ordeal.

She got to her polling place early this morning and waited in line for a bit. Once at the table, she gave her name and ID and was told that she could not vote because she already voted absentee.

“No, I didn’t,” she told them.

She was told to go to the county government center Registrar’s office (I believe that is across town) to do the research into the problem. That took more than an hour. Of course, they had no record of an absentee ballot being mailed to her. That’s because she did not request one. They told her she could vote by Provisional ballot, to which she protested that she absolutely would not vote by that method - she wanted her vote to count! She was told to go to another building where she was able to vote by a paper ballot that she hopes gets counted (I’m skeptical). Total time spent voting - 4.5 hours and most of that was driving and waiting around. The only plausible reason given for the error - a typo when entering someone else’s social security number for their absentee ballot.

I have no clue for whom she voted, but that tale is surely but one of many poor people whose voting experience was less than pleasant.

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