Arkansas : Dem SOS candidate "accidentally" left off ballot - Early voting halted

[sunonmars]

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Arkansas-candidate-left-off-ballot-when-early-13327597.php


LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A Democrat running for secretary of state in Arkansas was left off a county's ballot as early voting began on Monday, prompting officials to temporarily shutter polling sites as they scrambled to fix the problem.

The four early voting sites in Garland County were temporarily closed part of the morning after complaints that Susan Inman, the Democrat running for secretary of state, was not listed on the touchscreen ballot, County Election Commission Chairman Gene Haley said. Before the problem was discovered, 222 ballots without Inman's name had been cast. The sites reopened after Inman's name was added.

"That's 222 votes I may not have gotten and every vote counts," said Inman, who's running against Republican state Land Commissioner John Thurston. "We're hopeful this has not been a situation in any other county."

Inman and Haley said there's no recourse for the voters who already cast a ballot without the name, and that voters need to tell election officials if something is missing or wrong on the ballot. A spokesman for the secretary of state's office said it had not heard of similar problems in other counties.

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Accidentally my ass.....and no recourse......

[Garrett78]

1. Shutting down polling sites, removing names from voter rolls and other tactics I expect.

Just leaving a candidate off a ballot is going a bit overboard.

[malaise]

2. This should be the Number One news story in America

This is absolute fucking madness.
This is deliberate.

[sunonmars]

4. and no recourse, the voter can't revote.....

[uponit7771]

3. ..and no one goes to jail for this shit !?!?!

[sunonmars]

5. only if it was democrat doing it.....GOP get to do what they want it seems

[malaise]

6. Unbelievable

This is madness

[0rganism]

7. well that's certainly a step up from illicitly striking voters off the rolls

simply leave opposition candidates off the ballot entirely.

what's next on the anti-democracy agenda?

their endgame seems pretty clear, we've seen it in history books and documentary films, but they still have to play through the midgame first. what's the strategy? they seem to be relying on a complicit public letting them just walk away with it. will it work?

[TomSlick]

8. Remember Hanlon's Razor.

Garland County is just up the road. I sincerely doubt that county courthouse folks would do this on purpose.

It probably really was an accident.