Monday, October 20, 2008
PRINCETON, W.Va. — Over the last few days I've been through Southwest Virginia, down in North Carolina and now back up into the mountains on the West Virginia side near Bluefield for some stories about the political climate in red states....
GOP shifts gears in voter registration battle with secretary of state (click here)
By William Hershey
Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
COLUMBUS — Ohio Republicans are bringing in state Attorney General Nancy Rogers and the U.S. attorney general in their ongoing squabble with Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner about mismatched voter registrations.
On Tuesday, Oct. 21, Republican David Myhal withdrew his lawsuit from the Ohio Supreme Court asking that Brunner be compelled to instruct county boards of elections not to process or count absentee ballots cast by voters registered after Jan. 1 before reviewing them for mismatches....
No match, no vote and other election myths dispelled (click here)
Sunday, October 19, 2008
(Bay News 9)--Pinellas County supervisor of elections Deborah Clark has heard the rumors circulating: no campaign clothing allowed at the polling place... your driver license address must match your address on file or you can't vote... absentee ballots aren't counted unless the race is close... and on and on and on.
"This type of thing happens every presidential election, but these rumors and other issues need to be cleared up," Clark said. "We don't want voters to be discouraged from voting by mail or going to the polls on Election Day."
Here are the most recent myths and issues, along with Clark's responses:
Someone came to my door offering to deliver my ballot to the Elections Office.
The Supervisor of Elections office was notified of two recent instances of individuals going door-to-door offering to deliver ballots to the Elections Office....
