POLL PLACE ISSUES & ELECTION
REFORM
POLL PLACE ISSUES
(as of 5-15
)
Election
Protection hotline, 1-866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683), for
problems at the polls or questions about voting.
ie: voter
registration, ID requirements, election procedures, voting
machine irregularities, etc
Interactive website; and a real-time data-base on
reported problems,
www.ourvotelive.org
You will find reports/calls from local polls .
You are urged to report irregularities
Election
Court at the Montgomery County Courthouse has
judges at the
ready to rule on a wide variety of elections complaints An
individual voter can make an appeal but might be best to bring a
lawyer, or someone
knowledgable in the election code
The Election Day
Complaint Team at the Montgomery County District Attorney’s
Office
610-278-3146.. They
work with county and local law enforcement and others to protect
election integrity - and investigate and, where appropriate,
prosecute violations of election law.
Violations of the Help
America Vote Act (HAVA) can be reported on forms available
at
http://www.votespa.com/portal/server.pt/community/complaints/12589
This is for issues regarding voting system standards,
accessibility issues for individuals with disabilities,
provisional voting, voter information requirements or the
statewide voter registration database.
Voters don’t have the right to go to court to enforce
violations of HAVA, but a complaint may be settled after the
fact, which may particularly help in the future.
The Dept of State
complaint form is at
https://www.pavoterservices.state.pa.us/Pages/ReportElectionComplaints.aspx
for registered voters. The PA Department of State, which
oversees all elections in the Commonwealth, says it has no
jurisdiction in these matters and will refer them to the
relevant county election board.
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Emergency Paper
Ballots
are to be issued if half or more of the machines are not
working, the judge of elections will
provide them.
Provisional Ballots
are for those whose
eligibility is in question - they will be verified before being
counted
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Please read the
whole Citizens Call article here :
http://www.citizenscall.net/county-beat/what-if-things-go-wrong-at-the-polls/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+citizenscallnet+%28Citizens%27+Call%29
ELECTION REFORM NEEDED
Click
here to see reforms that are needed - posting polling rules,
monitoring behavior, publishing rules for candidates to run, etc
Election Reform
Network - local irregularities & election issues
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