Schwarzenegger's name was marked as having already voted when a poll worker was testing some procedures or some such nonsense. The issue was worked out, but it's what's buried a few grafs down that frosts me:
Schwarzenegger's aides were informed of the problem when they arrived Tuesday to survey the governor's polling station. When Schwarzenegger showed up later, a poll worker told the governor he would have to use a "provisional" ballot that allows elections workers to later verify whether the same person cast two votes. McCormack said the poll worker did the correct thing.So he "insisted," eh? Wow, bet that would've worked for everyone else, right? A provisional ballot is the proper protocol even when there's been an obvious error with the list. Why does he get special treatment?
The governor insisted on using a regular ballot and was allowed to do so
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i cant see how allowing him to vote with a regular ballot was the legally correct thing to do.
maybe he's guilty of violating some sort of election laws
or maybe the pollworker should have then "challenged" the voter/ballot in accordance with election code
Yeah, that was kinda my thought too.
Seems to be a negative times a negative equaling a false positive. A poll worker screws up. So then to unscrew it up, more election procedures are tossed out. That's a realllllly bad idea. I don't think the governor violated any laws, but the poll workers might have by allowing him to cast a regular, as opposed to a provisional, ballot.
Either way - it's the aspect of the story I haven't seen much outcry over (yet). The first transgression gets the attention - the second transgression gets lost.
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