Nov 04 2008
Election Irregularities – Let the Games Begin
Check out these headlines and claims of possible election irregularities or general Election Day weirdness.
- McCain Sues Over Military Ballots – The McCain suit, meanwhile, seeks an injunction to extend the date by which federal write-in absentee ballots must be received to be counted. The current deadline is today, but the suit seeks to have the date changed to Nov. 14. “Because many counties in Virginia failed to mail absentee ballots in time to our men and women in uniform stationed overseas, service members are being disenfranchised because they are unable to return their ballots before the November 4 deadline,” campaign spokeswoman Gail Gitcho said in a written statement about the suit, which is scheduled to be heard in Williams’ courtroom at 1:30 p.m. today.
- GOP Election Board Members Tossed Out of Polling Stations – GOP Election Board members have been tossed out of polling stations in at least half a dozen polling stations in Philadelphia because of their party status. A Pennsylvania judge previously ruled that court-appointed poll watchers could be NOT removed from their boards by an on-site election judge, but that is exactly what is happening, according to sources on the ground.
- Toledo Police Brace for Possible Civil Unrest – In an internal memo obtained exclusively by NBC 24 News, officers are ordered to “Have their riot equipment with them Tuesday and Wednesday”. Police chief Mike Navarre confirms, officers will have gear similar to the equipment they used during the 2005 race riots. “They have been asked to have their helmets and their gas masks available tomorrow and Wednesday.”, Navarre says, “That’s the equipment they would not normally carry with them on a normal day”.
- Voter surveys litter Interstate 4 roadside – TAMPA — The intersection known for years as “malfunction junction” has another notch on its belt. Highway workers discovered hundreds of papers with voter information early Monday on the shoulder of the westbound Interstate 4 ramp just before the entrance to southbound Interstate 275 in Tampa.
What a mess.
