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  • From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Early voting
  • Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:04:21 -0400


They do ask for ID here if they don't know you personally. I always used
a Drivers License; I don't know what else they would have taken. Of
course our precinct is small...a few hundred voters. Easy to keep track of.

Lynn Wigglesworth

DSanner106 AT aol.com wrote:
> Exactly, so all you have to do is use a name in the precinct book and as
> there are 100,000 more registered voters in one Ohio precinct than eligible
>
> citizens, there have been a lot of names added that should not be there.
> This is
> what ACORN was convicted of in the last election, flooding the rolls with
> fake
> voters and using those names to cast votes with homeless people, etc
> during
> the election. We really need photo ID at the polls. In the case of a name
> not
> on the rolls, they issue a provisional ballot. In most cases they are
> counted as votes unless a recount is called for and are then checked out.
>
> Drew
>
>
> In a message dated 10/27/2008 11:32:21 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com writes:
>
> We don't have early voting in PA (except absentee). When we first moved
> here, we had to show IDs. Now we rarely do because at least one of the
> poll workers knows me. They have a precinct book of eligible voters, and
> check off your name and have you sign when you come in to vote. If your
> name isn't in the book, it attracts a LOT of attention. I only saw it
> happen once...every poll worker gathered around, tsk-tsking about it. I
> don't know how they finally resolved it. In fact, it worked the same way
> when I lived in Philadelphia...if you weren't in the precinct book, you
> had a lot of convincing to do before you would be allowed to vote.
>
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