Group: Many New York Votes Disqualified

[Wilms]

Group: Many New York votes disqualified

By YANCEY ROY

ALBANY BUREAU

ALBANY — A quarter of a million New Yorkers were forced to vote on paper ballots last fall — and more than 150,000 had their votes disqualified because of disputes with a local election board, a new report showed yesterday.

The number is the second highest among states and comes as the state Legislature deliberates an election-law overhaul. The number is also up significantly from previous presidential election years.

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New York requires voters to be registered 25 days before an election. Many states require 20 to 30 days. But New York had a large number of provisional ballots cast: 257,775. Only California, with 668,408, had more. Similar-sized states, such as Texas with 25,743 and Florida with 27,742, had much smaller totals.

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He said he couldn't explain why so many paper ballots were disqualified.

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http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050503/NEWS05/505030349/1021

[ck4829]

1. Something tells me the Bush 'mandate' has just gotten a bit smaller

[HockeyMom]

2. NYC

I read that Bush got only 20% in NYC. You mean it was worse than THAT? ROFL

[MissWaverly]

3. they were disqualified because they were not for Bush

very simple reason

[Bill Bored]

4. And this helps our drive to BAN DREs and use PAPER BALLOTS HOW exactly???

This story involves PROVISIONAL BALLOTS!

Please do NOT conflate this with PAPER BALLOTS (as opposed to VAPOR BALLOTS used in DREs)!

<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x365317>

[Wilms]

5. It's got nothing to do with DRE's

So?

BTW, will this help explain the NY exit polls and tallys being way outside the MOE?

[Bill Bored]

6. To the casual reader, taking it out of context,

it reads like it's anti paper ballot.
Actually it's a voter registration issue.

I suppose it could explain some of the discrepancy. These were probably NOT Bush voters!

[Wilms]

7. Once I read it less closely, I realized what you meant.

:)

Nevertheless, is this a job for the DU Exit Pollster Strike Force?

[Bill Bored]

8. Better them than us! nt