By Antonio D. French
Filed Tuesday, November 07, 2006 at 1:17 PM
PUB DEF EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Labels: Election_Day, Exclusive, Interviews
The chairwoman of the St. Louis City Board of Elections says Election Day is going pretty smoothly so far.
Kim Mathis told PUB DEF that aside from some minor problems with a few optical scan machines, the election is proceeding without any major controversies so far.
We asked her about reports of confusion at some polling places -- either with faulty equipment or misinformed elderly judges -- that resulted in some voters being given provisional ballots. Mathis said she had not heard of any of those incidents, but she said even though an optical scan ballot might have been marked "provisional" it wasn't actually a provisional vote if it was scanned and counted on the spot.
Mathis also said she had not heard of any touch screen machines not working today. But when this reporter arrived to vote at Yeatman School this morning, only one of the three touch screen machines was operational. Twenty minutes later, by the time I got to the front of the line, all three were functioning.
Mathis would not predict what time tonight the election board would have the final unofficial vote total. "We'll try to get them out as soon as we can," she said. "But I don't anticipate you're going to see anything longer here than you would find anywhere else."
Watch our entire 5-minute interview with Mathis...
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1 Comments:
When I voted around 3:30 PM at Pct 1, Ward 23, I was given a provisional ballot instead of a regular. I went back up to the desk and they stopped giving provisional ballots and exchanged those of the other voters. The judges seemed genuinely shocked that they had picked up the wrong pile to give out.
11/07/2006 6:54 PM
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