After several problems and delays at polling places on Tuesday, Connecticut Democrats planned to file a complaint to extend voting hours, the Hartford Courant newspaper reported.
“Because of delays and other problems at Hartford polling locations, we are filing a complaint in Hartford Superior Court asking that voting hours be extended to accommodate voters who were unable to vote or were discouraged from voting this morning,” a spokesperson for Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) told the Courant.
When polls opened across the state Tuesday morning, election workers discovered they were missing voter lists, the newspaper reported. The setback resulted in delays across the state capital’s 26 different polling stations.
The race for governor between Malloy and Republican Tom Foley remained one of the most competitive in the country going into Election Day.
The problems at polling places contained a touch of deja vu: The Courant noteed that in 2010 a state judge granted Democrats an extension in the city of Bridgeport after stations ran out of ballots, resulting in a slew of voting troubles.
The state’s GOP signaled its concern with Tuesday’s setbacks as well: Republican State Chairman Jerry Labriola told the paper his party was watching closely.
“We have a team of 50 lawyers ready to review things. We won’t stand by for this,” Labriola said.
Voter fraud! Voter fraud!
But seriously, I saw on the weather this morning that Maine got a foot of snow last night, that’ll slow things down there too.
EDIT: I just read the article and I see the GOP is already concerned and have their lawyers lined up.
Sheesh, I knew they’d be paranoid, but really?
I think it’s time we get serious about reform in this country, but it won’t happen so long as the Koch Brothers have money to burn so that they can turn the US into a serf economy.
The Voter ID Law in Texas is going to cause issues too.
I was first in line-- and the clerk hadn’t gone through her paces with anyone else yet-- which made my ‘check-in’ likely much longer.
Though if the process lengthens every check-in by 15-30 seconds?
That’s alot of people standing around waiting to vote-- ever-longer-- as the day goes on.
F^cking ®s.
jw1
Here in Dallas, probably Wendy Davis’s strongest area outside of Austin, we are getting some pretty impressive rainfall today, 2-3 inches. That will depress voter turnout as well. On the plus side, it will hopefully reinvigorate our lakes and water table. We need the rain badly. Just would have been better tomorrow.
My wife’s voter registration didn’t match her ID (the ol’ put the maiden name as middle name trick the Rs in Texas have been pulling this season). But we were on the watch for it, so as soon as we got our new cards and noticed it in Sept we immediately got in touch with the D party who walked us through how to fix it. Which took several hours of our time to fix. Now imagine if you didn’t know these dirty tricks were being played. If we hadn’t caught it my wife would not have been able to vote. That law has got to go.