I just attempted to vote in Los Angeles County at the elementary school which the government voter guide told me was my polling place. I found this polling place to be odd, considering that I've voted at the same nearby church in each of the last two elections since I moved to the Miracle Mile neighborhood.
Over the last few days, I've received voter guides from Democratic organizations (NOW, the Firefighters union, etc.) as well as Democratic politicians (Dianne Watson and Maxine Waters) which contained contradictory information regarding my polling place (some said the church, some said the elementary school)....continued below...
Since the official, government approved voter guide indicated that my polling place was the elementary school, that is where I decided to go to vote.
When I got there, the poll workers told me 1) my name was not on the rolls, and that 2) I should probably go vote "somewhere else", or, that I could vote "provisionally."
I decided to drive to the church and once I arrived there, was able to vote. When I told the poll workers at the church what had happened at the elementary school, I was told "That's been happening all day, people coming in here who aren't on the rolls, other people coming in saying they've been to 2-3 polling places looking for their poll."
Apparently, LA County officials switched (hundreds of) thousands of people's appropriate polling places LAST NIGHT AT TEN P.M.--too late to notify anyone.
I am not normally a conspiracy theorist, but this is very unsettling to me. The poll workers were all extremely confused and couldn't answer my questions regarding who was responsible for these last minute changes.
Either voter disenfranchisement is currently occuring on a broad scale across LA County, or, our County's registrar of voters is completely incompetent and needs to be fired.
Edit: at 4:45 P.M., a recorded message was left on my answering machine to let me know that my polling place was changed from the church to the elementary school. What the fuck??? My polling place was IN REALITY changed from the school to the church. I don't know what's going on here, but it smells really bad.