My girlfriend is an attorney and is volunteering for the Obama campaign.. she was assigned at a polling place in the city. Her reports are scary. It is a mess here.
Lowlights:
1) People who have their names as registered on the PA website but not in the book
2) At least 7 people at her polling site received phone calls (presumably from Republicans).. telling them to push the straight Dem button and then the Obama button. Problem is this voids the whole vote
3) There is a supplemental list of voters that the stations have.. many dont know they have it and are making people vote provisionally (Provisional votes are bad.. machine is much better)
Even when we win.. we need to fix the system!
More:
From ThinkProgress:
More reports of widespread provisional ballots in PA
A poll worker in Ward 43 told ThinkProgress that an unusually high number of provisional ballots — roughly 50 in one location alone — were cast this morning by registered voters who for whatever reason were not on the voter rolls.
José Rodriguez was one of those voters, who left frustrated just after 6 PM waiving his provisional ballot slip. “I voted four years ago, I’m registered and got confirmation of my registration,” he told ThinkProgress. He added that he planned to call VotesPA to try and get his ballot counted.
AriBerman on twitter;
AriBerman: Polling places in PA are running out of provisional ballots. Polls close at 8 pm EST. Voters with problems should call 866-Our-Vote
more from THinkProgress:
Voters at Cayuga Elementary School in northeast Philadelphia are leaving the polling place frustrated because their polling location was changed at the last minute — and at least one voter wasn’t notified of the change until earlier this morning.
Laura Elam had voted for 20 years in the same polling place before getting notice earlier in the day that her voting location had changed. Exiting the school, Elam told ThinkProgress that she had still not voted after three tries at three different locations.
Versions of her story were repeated several times in the school parking lot, with other longtime voters explaining that they too were unable to find their correct polling place.
h/t to ThinkProgress: I think they always do great work.. and my girlfriend- volunteering from 6:30 AM to 8 PM today!
EDIT
h/t Grollen via Mother Jones
"We suspect there has been an unreported purge of voters in Pennsylvania," said Barbara Arnwine, head of the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights. There are "too many voters being affected by this for us to think it’s voter error or voter confusion," Arnwine said.