CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis County election officials now say 253 voters, not the 600 originally announced, were mistakenly advised that they are ineligible to vote in Tuesday’s election.
Republican elections director Rick Stream said Thursday that letters were mistakenly sent to 600 voters telling them they missed the registration deadline. But Democratic director Eric Fey later told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that was only an estimate, and that the real number was 253.
About 150 of the voters caught the error and were restored to the rolls. Election officials are trying to reach the others.
The error was caused by confusion over voter registrations that arrived after Missouri’s Oct. 10 deadline. Election workers were unaware that registration forms postmarked or signed by Oct. 10 should have counted, regardless of when they arrived.
“Unaware”. Because, y’know, there’s no training in this kind of thing, and no one in the office who knows the settled law and can be asked for advice.
GOP locally, nationally. The party of voter suppression and cheating.
1 is too many.
Seems a little like they can’t get their story straight.
Rick Stream-R, my former State Rep., tried to run for St. Louis County Executive and lost to Stenger-D (who should be seen as a Republic with all the crap he has and will pull.