Thread to report voter suppression incidents in IL, OH, MO, FL, and NC.

[Ken Burch]

If it's done to you...If you see it being done to other voters...please post it in this thread. Post any celphone or other visual images as well.

It could get weird and ugly in a lot of places today.

This is one way of establishing a record.

[B2G]

1. In NC I had to show my ID, but the woman in front of me didn't

I thought that was weird.

[Ken Burch]

2. If you would, describe yourself in comparison to the woman in front of you. n/t.

[B2G]

3. Both white, both about the same age (early 50s). nt

[Ken Burch]

4. So nothing that would make you an obvious target. n/t.

[B2G]

5. Nope. Mabye I have shifty eyes. Lol.

[randome]

6. Did you tell them your name was B2G? That might have thrown them for a loop.

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[B2G]

7. Lol!

[jwirr]

9. Could be the people at the table knew her? I walk into my

precinct and they call me by name.

[B2G]

11. I think that might be it.

She was talking to another poll worker about her kids.

But what's the point in passing a law that is selectively enforced? Kind of pissed me off.

[jwirr]

13. I don't blame you. My precinct is very small and most of us

are known by name to each other. However, in MN each of us have to go and sign in so there is not an ID problem as such.

[ncliberal]

10. Weird.

My polling place scanned my ID. Does that mean all of them aren't scanning?

[B2G]

12. No scanning at mine.

They didn't even record any info, just looked at it.

[ncliberal]

14. I wonder if mine was allowed to scan.

Does anyone know if that was ok?

[Ferd Berfel]

15. NO scanning or ID in IL

[ieoeja]

8. They changed the Illinois sign-in. If I saw what they did correctly my ballot is no longer secret.

Previously, they had a book with voter signatures to which they could compare when you signed in. This time, they gave me a sheet to fill out. The woman I gave it to could then not read my last name (I have a pinched nerve, my printing is for shit). After verifying my registration she wrote a number on the ballot, and that same number on the sign-in.

Maybe that number represents something else. But if it is just a sequential number for that precinct, then they could match up my ballot to my name.

I didn't think about it at the time. Just figured it was part of the process. Thinking back on it I can not imagine any other reason she would have to write a number on my ballot. It isn't like my ballot should be any different from all the other Democratic ballots.

[Ferd Berfel]

16. Yea - I'n in the 10th

This is the first election with the digital books. They asked my name printed out a receipt that I had to sign compared it to the screen verified with 2 people (they said it wasn't a great match but let me have a ballot)

I do not trust the digital 'books'. Laptops can fail - then what? THe paper books were printed up ahead of time so always available. Digital is an easy way to have 'problems'. We have to change this.

Side note: There was a Local State Rep (Ed Sullivan) (R) standing in front of the door trying to shake hands. This is a pretty republican district so he was shocked when he stuck out his hand, I grunted and side-stepped and kept going.

[winter is coming]

17. They are not supposed to do that.

Back when my precinct still voted on cards, we spread out about a half-dozen ballots at a time, face down (so we could see the precinct judge had signed them and we couldn't see the ballot's sequence number). That way we didn't know which ballot went to which voter.