[IP] Voters disenfranchised in Los Angeles
Begin forwarded message:
From: "r.t." <rickt@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 7, 2006 12:20:00 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Declan McCullagh <declan@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Voters disenfranchised in Los Angeles
Dave, just to add a little extra context to this post...
A number of my friends (6) were seemingly removed from the voter
rolls in L.A. County, CA. They were unable to vote last night because
of this. Election officials were rude and not helpful in the
slightest. All 6 of my friends are politically active, and did vote
in the previous two elections. All have not moved their primary
residences since the last election (where they did receive
information about the election via US mail prior to the previous
elections -- while none of them did this time around), none of them
are felons, and all always vote. It is my understanding that what
happened to them is not lawful?
We also discovered that the www.LAVOTE.net website, which gives
directions to polling stations (among other things) would not
recognise *any* street address at all, and thus no polling station
location or direction data was able to be found. The site did not
error out at all, it simply just said nothing when addresses were
input (I have screenshots of this). The site became usable and
started outputting correct data some 3 hours after the polling
stations had closed.
The "Report-A-Problem" telephone number was also busy throughout the
evening, and when we were able to finally get through, the voice
mailbox was full.
I leave it up to the fine readership of IP to draw their own
conclusions, at least until someone finds out what happened.
Thanks,
Rick Tait, Los Angeles.
On Jun 7, 2006, at 8:56 AM, David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Lynn <lynn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 7, 2006 10:15:19 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: elections
A clip from CNN regarding the integrity of US elections.
In the town I live, these machines were used for the first time
yesterday.
As soon as the polls opened, there were problems with people not being
able to vote due to machine problems.
Lynn
-------------------------------------
You are subscribed as roessler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To manage your subscription, go to
http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip
Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/