Reply #27: I was purged from Ohio's list of registered voters [View All]

[ohio_liberal]

I still have no idea why. I found out on the last day of registration, 1 hour before the county election office was to close. I'm lucky I called--one of my neighbors told me she and her husband were gone from the list and I thought it might be a good idea for me to check on my status. I drove 20 minutes to the office and had to register again at the last minute. Nobody in the office knows why I was purged. I've lived at the same address for more than 10 years and have voted in every single election.

In my county there were hundreds of voters who never received their absentee ballots and had to vote with provisional ballots. Almost 40% of Belmont County's provisional ballots were disallowed. You see, they changed/closed precincts before the election and never told anyone. No letters in the mail, no notices in the newspapers, nothing. And the ones they allowed--Bush 314, Kerry 318- almost 50% in a county where Kerry won at nearly 53%. I would bet money that the overwhelming majority of those 400 provisionals were Kerry votes.