Reply #8: "Voting-rights provocateur Phil Lindsey went and got himself arrested...."

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NOTE: Charlene Davis is a Republican, and this paper tells only the Republican version of the event!

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Voting absentee
http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/13608

Voting-rights provocateur Phil Lindsey went and got himself arrested Tuesday while trying to cast a ballot in Independence, he says.

He tried to vote, he says, when poll workers asked him to provide an ID with a signature, which is not required under state law. He refused, and was eventually detained, he says, for disrupting the polling place.

"Either these people are not trained well enough to handle the job, or somebody's doing what they shouldn't out there," Lindsey said he told Jackson County election officials.

UPDATE: Charlene Davis, one of the directors of the Jackson County Election Board, said Lindsey was disruptive at the polling place -- "screaming" at election judges.

"They were scared to death," Davis said. "They're all over 70...one gal thought she was having a heart attack. I do think they acted properly. They were confused over the identification, but they called.

"He was disruptive at the poll, and that's a violation of the law."

More of Phil's side of the story here (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/6/9488/29311/996/563441).