the thing is, we were so saturated here -- we had more political advertising than anywhere in the country except Miami, and most people were getting at least half a dozen political calls a day -- that I find it really hard to believe that people would *not* realize you had to register in order to vote. Really hard. I am trying, believe me, Big Brother :)
lol Dana On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:57:27 -0600, Russel Madere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As an election commissioner in my parish, I can say that the 5 > provisional ballots in my precinct were voter cluelessness. > > Russel Madere > Webmaster > 504.832.9835 > > > SunShine Pages by EATEL > www.sunshinepages.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: dana tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 11:24 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Louisiana Provisional Ballots > > yeah, the numbers here are 6600 or 10,000 depending on who you talk > to. That's just Albuquerque, not the entire state. I am not sure how > paranoid it is to wonder about this. It seems to be about 2% of the > electorate, which might be a reasonable factor for cluelessness. On > the other hand, I know from working the phones that the vast majority > of newly registered voters had cards that said see the sunday paper > the weekend before the election where it should have said precinct.... > > Whether what is going on here is just cluelessness, voter and county > clerk both, I have not yet decided. I do wonder why it is so hard to > register to vote here when we seem to manage to register cars ok... > > Dana > > On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:54:58 -0600, Russel Madere > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just heard that over 3500 provisional ballots in Louisiana were > thrown > > out. All of them were by people who were either not eligible to vote > in > > the parish where the vote was cast OR had tried to vote twice. I > wonder > > how many of these were for Kerry? > > > > Russel Madere > > > > Webmaster/Internet Coordinator > > > > 504.832.9835 x3509 > > > > SunShine Pages by EATEL > > > > www.sunshinepages.com > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:136198 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
