MI: Any Reports of "Undelivered" Reg Forms?

[BQueen]

Got this post on the morningsedition.com blog tonight http://www.morningsedition.com/archives/2004/10/friday_counting.html

Any direction for her?

>>>I have an important story I would like for you to read about the Presidential Voting this year. I am a 20-year-old female, and this is the first political event I have ever cared about before. I was looking forward very much to voting for my candidate for President in the election, so I sent my registration form in 3 months early. I checked every week on the michigan.gov/vote website to see if I was registered. After 6 weeks of not seeing my name in the database, I sent another form in to my local county clerk's office. I waited, and checked, and about two weeks ago, I called up my county clerk's office and asked them if they showed my name on the list, and they said I was not on the list. I asked them if I could register online and they told me it was too late now. This devistated and angered me so much that I was in tears for half an hour. Then I decided I needed to act, to see how many people have sent in their registrations, thinking they are now able to go and vote for the President, when really they will be in for a big surprise when they get to the polls.
I think this is an important short story that should be run, that should be put out where America can see it, and ask them: Are you really registered to vote?
I'm not sure if someone at the Post Office was tampering with them or what, but I think it is too much of a coincidence that two different forms sent to two different locations were never processed.

Thank you for reading,
Kristen Garvey
Hastings, Michigan

Posted by: Kris at October 21, 2004 10:31 PM (EST) <<<
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If you have any help for her or somewhere to report it, there's an e-mail addy link in the msblog post, you can post there, or I can check back in later...

From the case out west, I wouldn't like her chances of getting to vote...but geez, the USPS is one of the few government agencies you can actually count on these days. The presumption oughtta be that the postal workers are doing a hell of a lot better job than the voting registration people this year. Hard to prove that she sent it though; you know the Repugs would cry "fraud"...

and yes, we all know she could have been even more diligent, taken it in personally, checked immediately before registration ended, yadda, yadda, yadda...that's not the point, she shouldn't have even had to send two. :mad: Any chance that they are still processing and she could have gotten a nasty person who wouldn't bother to tell her that?

Peace B-)
BQ

[MI Cherie]

1. Heard from a friend ...

Her 18 year old mailed in the form. Came back as "undeliverable" because the address was "wrong." As if they don't know where the Secretary of State's Department is!

What a frustrating first voting attempt.