Error-Filled Instructions Are Sent to Ohio Voters (Wrong Date & Wrong Time To SEVERAL Precincts)
October 22, 2012, 8:55 PM1 Comment
Error-Filled Instructions Are Sent to Ohio Voters
By ETHAN BRONNER
A Republican-run election board in a northern Ohio county sent out voting instructions to several precincts with the wrong date for Election Day and an incorrect description of the polling place location, leading state Democrats to suggest foul play in a presidential race that could be decided in a handful of states like Ohio by tiny margins.
The Ottawa County Board of Elections sent a mailer to three precincts last week referring to Election Day as Nov. 8, instead of Nov. 6, and said their new voting place was in a building on the east side of the high school rather than on its west side.
The Ohio Democratic Party issued a statement saying, “This error is deeply troubling.” A party spokesman, Jerid Kurtz, said it was “paramount that voters not be misled” and asked the board not only to issue a correction but also to review all its correspondence with voters from the past year.
JoAnn Friar, director of the county’s elections board, said that the error was unintentional and that a corrected version was being edited and would be sent out promptly.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/22/error-filled-instructions-are-sent-to-ohio-voters/
MORE HERE TOO:
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2012/10/democrats_blast_ottawa_county.html
btw: i had originally posted this in LB but realize it is from last night.
STILL! WTF?!>
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