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Pre-marked ballots at M Street voting location?
11/08/2016 7:34 AM by John M
Kevin writes in:
At approximately 6:10 this morning I received a paper ballot at City Hall East that was pre-marked for Joe Morrissey. I turned it into an election official and received a blank ballot. There was one other person who had the same issue. Please alert your readers to the issue.
This was an actual ballot, not one of the Joe Morrissey “Progressive Democrat” or Jack Berry’s not-quite-the-Democratic-sample ballot (as pictured below).
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Jack Berry’s not-quite-the-Democratic-sample ballot
Are these illegal?
Hold on. That’s not an actual ballot. That’s a sample ballot. Confusing, perhaps, but not valid.
@Jason Read the words – not the sample ballot that is pictured
He says “Not from outside. I handed my ticket to the worker who handed me a ballot. I went to my privacy booth looked down and saw that an “x” was marking the bubble next to Morrissey’s name”
@johnM. If that’s the case, then holy hell! Let’s report to authorities.
Apparently it’s happening across town:
http://www.richmond.com/news/article_cc73cf63-6319-5c81-8192-95b86ca03f37.html
This happened to my girlfriend this morning at this time. She was handed a real ballot pre-marked for Morrissey. I called the election board to complain and they forwarded me to 804-864-8902. This was a full voicemail with no available operators.
dial 866 OUR VOTE it’s the election protection committee. they had folks out at 31st street baptist checking on irregular activities. or justice department voting rights 800-253-3931
This should absolutely make local and national news. No joke. Spread the word, post and repost.
The Times Dispatch story is about Kevin as well. So it looks like it only happened once. Probably a mixup with someone returning a partially filled in ballot to the stack of blanks by mistake. Let’s no go crazy.
Is Josh Williams a Trump supporter? There was a van outside of city hall east containing a Josh Williams sign and a sign that read “TRUMP: JOBS JOBS JOBS”
Dunno about Josh, but the truck belongs to Jewels, Inc, a local contractor & Trump supporter.
@12 is right, don’t go crazy. I’ll say this, I bore witness to him walking out and voicing the issue as he walked past the line. At no point did an election official mention, to me or anyone near me, to review the ballot to ensure it was free of marks. Given this ‘finding’ they would have done so with absolute certainty, and I have to believe others were checking their ballots before voting. I checked mine immediately after receiving it and it was free of marks; others near me did the same thing. So this tells me he was fishing for attention and marked his own ballot and returned it. Of course, that is if he isn’t just saying it had a mark. All this has done, and maybe it was his intention, was to plant the seed of doubt in people’s minds about the mayoral election. It has literally been the only reported/known incident across the city…….