Democratic voters in Polk County, Florida were almost turned away from polls after the workers at one precinct told them the primary was for Republicans only.
Theresa Wibert said she and her partner showed up at their local polling place on Tuesday to vote in the closed primary and were given ballots without their candidate’s name. She says the ballot she was handed only had Republican names on it and,”We would have been turned away if we weren’t forceful about it.”
When she asked the workers where the Democratic voter ballots were, she received an outrageous answer:
A woman who was in charge told Wilbert that it was a closed Republican primary and it was not for Democrats.
Ummmm….what?
Wibert they were not the only ones who were told the primary was not for Democrats, apparently a handful of other Hillary and Bernie supporters were also nearly turned away because the workers were idiots.
Not one person sitting at that table questioned the fact that there was no Democrat ballots on the table. We pushed it a little further and the lady called a few people. Finally, she looked in the bottom of a closet and found a box with the Democratic ballots. Then they fixed it. So we were able to vote for our candidate.
What in the world would a box of ballots be doing hidden in a closet? How the hell is a “mistake” like that made? And why in the actual feck are people working at the polls who have no idea who is supposed to vote on primary day?
Although the Supervisor of Elections claims that nobody was turned away, how are we supposed to trust that? She was incapable of hiring a competent staff to work the polls.
One thing is for absolute certain: My state cannot handle ANOTHER electoral embarrassment. We all saw what happened in 2000 nearly 16 years later the state is still feeling the burn of a flubbed election and President Bush’s ridiculous win. Then in 2012, election lines were so long people had to wait more than seven hours to vote for their candidate because there weren’t enough precincts open.
For the sake of the union, and the state of Florida, let’s all hope they get their sh*t together this time around.
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