{news} My write- in was NOT COUNTED in Manchester!! was yours??

[Ronna Stuller]

What is our next step? So far, in New London, 6 people have told me  
they wrote in McKinney (including one who voted via absentee ballot),  
while the town's tally lists zero.

One person in Norwich said he'd been told by the head moderator that  
write-ins would not be counted since there was no official list.  
(???)  Yet I received the Presidential list in the mail! (Not sure  
why, though... perhaps because I was listed as a McKinney elector?)

Well, I guess one of the reasons we sought official write-in status  
for McKinney was to test the system...   (In many places, it clearly  
failed, both in terms of consistent posting and consistent counting.)

Ronna



On Nov 11, 2008, at 1:05 AM, David Bedell wrote:

> Many places did a lousy job of handling write-in procedures and  
> counting
> votes.  Stamford failed to count a number of write-in votes that we  
> know
> were cast, and there was no consistent policy about posting the list  
> of
> write-in candidates. Some polling places posted a list, some did  
> not, and
> even when posted, the lists did not include all the candidates. (The  
> lists I
> saw included all the write-in Presidential candidates, but not the
> Congressional, and not always the state legislature candidates.)
>
> David Bedell