Baltimore NAACP Sues to Give Baltimore City Voters an Extra Hour to Vote

[Omaha Steve]

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=72255

Baltimore NAACP Successfully Sues to Give Baltimore City Voters an Extra Hour to Vote

9/12/2006 8:15:00 PM

To: State Desk

Contact: John C. White of the NAACP, 410-580-5125

BALTIMORE, Sept. 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- After receiving numerous complaints from city voters, the NAACP Baltimore Branch and private plaintiffs this afternoon filed a lawsuit to keep city polling sites open until 9 p.m. Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Marcella Holland issued a temporary injunction ordering the Baltimore City Board of Election to operate the polls one hour past the normal closing time of 8 p.m.

According to the lawsuit, in citing one example of problems at the polls, a voter said he was unable to vote at 7:05 a.m. because there was an insufficient number of polling judges on duty. The voter said he was unable to return to vote before the scheduled closing at 8 p.m. because of his job.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the NAACP by Jon M. Greenbaum and Jonah H. Goldman of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the NAACP Legal Department.

FULL story at link above.

[GetTheRightVote]

1. This is terrible, a citizen has a right to vote, should stay open longer

This is getting seriously ridiculous with these voting problems all over in MD.

:kick:

[Ignacio Upton]

2. I'm glad they managed to keep Baltimore open for another hour

BTW, does anyone know if ballots in Balitmore have been counted yet for the Senate race? It looks like Cardin will win, but I've heard that Baltimore hasn't come in yet, so I'm trying to be cautious.

[bamacrat]

3. Good to hear, just hope its not in the black republican areas.

If there are any in Baltimore.

[eccles12]

4. It happened in affluent Montgomery County as well.

I think the voters made a mistake in choosing Cardin over Mfume for Nov face off with Steele. I sure hope I am wrong.