Electile Disfunction
You knew it was bound to happen. Less than 24 hours before the polls open there were charges of voter intimidation and misleading poll workers. This all took place at an “emergency” hearing of the Marion County Election Board.
Marion County Clerk Beth White said voters have received misinformation regarding their polling places, the GOP was trying to confuse poll workers with inaccurate information and the Republican list of more than 760 election day challengers was meant to intimidate voters. GOP Chairman Kyle Walker denied the allegations.
The controversy, in part, was over the GOP wanting to enforce a new state law which says an individual who casts an absentee ballot cannot “beat their ballot to the box” and vote a second time in person and that vote cancel out the previous vote.
Another matter involved a voter who said he received a robo-call giving him bad information about where to vote. I did later discover that the voter who testified he received misleading information about where to vote had moved and was entered into the system twice. The information he received was based on the previous voting address.
The board only took action on the alleged misleading phone call. I’ve embedded comments from the members of the Board below.
The Board only took action on one of the allegations, which was to forward the matter to the Prosecutors Office and U.S. Attorney. The Election starts tomorrow at 6 a.m. and can’t get here soon enough.
