Coincidence? Pffft!
"From Canada, students seek rides to vote" by Julie Masis, Globe Correspondent | November 4, 2008
MONTREAL - Several students attending Canadian universities have been scrambling to get home to Massachusetts today to vote, with some saying they did not receive their absentee ballots despite having requested them months ago.
Sociology student Emily Burns, 24, of Newton, said she requested her ballot a few months ago but never received it. Burns and a friend, both at Concordia University, were desperately looking for someone to drive them from Montreal to Boston yesterday.
They even posted an online ad on craigslist, but, Burns said, no one had come forward by yesterday afternoon. "I wanted to vote to decriminalize marijuana," she said, adding that she was also going to vote for Barack Obama.
Umm, quit smokin' the weed, kiddo (did you send that request in?), because the question is NOT a "decriminalize" law.
Burns explained that she just bought a new computer and, with a negative balance in her bank account, does not have the money for a bus ticket to Boston. Concordia student Carmen Cartterfield, 19, from Cambridge, also did not receive her absentee ballot.
Yesterday afternoon, her iPod in hand, she was waiting in Montreal's Central Station for a Greyhound bus to Boston. She said she is missing classes and spending $120 for the bus ticket to get to the polls.
"I tried to get my absentee ballot and they didn't send it to me, and then I lost track of when the due date was with midterms and stuff," she said. "It was really important to me that I vote in this election because it's a really big one and I think change needs to happen."
She said she is voting for Obama. Cartterfield said she knows four people who did not receive their absentee ballots. Some of them were planning to travel to the United States this morning, she said, adding that one friend - who is from Boston and goes to school in Montreal - could not go because "she couldn't miss an exam." --more--"
"Scores of Cambridge voters learn their names are missing from voters lists
Scores of angry Cambridge registered voters this morning discovered that their names were missing from lists of eligible voters as city election officials alerted the state to the problem -- and provided a solution.
"They have no problem collecting taxes from me, but they can't get my name on the (voting) roster," said Laura Gamel, whose husband was on the list but she was not. Gamel was married earlier this year, but has lived in the same Cambridge neighborhood and voted in every election, including the September primary, at the same polling place during that time. She also personally filled out the city census card.
At the Friends Center at Longfellow Park poll -- Ward 8 precinct 2 -- about 20 voters were stunned to learn their names had not made the final list of voters at 7 a.m. One of those, Beverley Earle, said she and her husband, John Sloan, voted together in the September primary. Today, Sloan's name was on the list, but Earle's name was missing. A neighbor who has voted in Ward 8, Precinct 2 for 20 years, was among the missing, Earle said.
"Our names weren't there, and they (poll workers) were just overwhelmed,'' Earle said in a telephone interview. "It was just so disappointing. It just felt like it was very strange and really scary - if this could go on a major scale across the country. It was really very upsetting,'' she said.
Cambridge residents also reported the same kind of problem in at least three other wards scattered around the city. --more--"
There are no FAIR ELECTIONS anymore, are there? Even in LIBERAL Massachusetts, huh?
How come these "glitches" ALWAYS FAVOR REPUBLICANS, huh?
