Example of a voter whose absentee ballot was rejected.

[Eric J in MN]

http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/34853669.html

If the hand recount of ballots to determine a winner in the U.S. Senate race has Minnesotans edgy, pity poor Robert Marvin.

The Roseville man was too ill to risk a long wait in line on Election Day, so he dutifully filled out an absentee ballot, only to discover Thursday that his vote never got counted.

Now his wife, Ruby Marvin, is hopping mad.

"Oh for cripes' sake," she said when a Star Tribune reporter told her that election officials said her husband's ballot had been rejected because he wasn't properly registered.

"We've lived here for five years and voted in every election," she said.