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More Voting Booths Needed For South Mississippi Turnout
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| Contributor | William McKinley |
| Last Edited | William McKinley Nov 04, 2003 01:19pm |
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| Category | News |
| News Date | Tuesday, November 4, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Sheriff's deputies asked to monitor poll watchers in some precincts
Election officials had extra voting booths hauled into South Mississippi precincts on Tuesday morning to accommodate a heavier than expected turnout. Although many voters had to wait in line, only a few mechanical glitches were reported.
The biggest complaint in Harrison and Jackson County has been about aggressive poll watchers. Jackson County Sheriff's deputies were dispatched to two precincts after election holders complained about behavior from poll watchers.
"It got a little hectic in a couple of precincts," said Ben Sanford, chairman of the Jackson County Election Commission. "We had sheriff's deputies go out to the Sue Ellen Rec Center and one other precinct. The election workers said the poll watchers were overstepping their boundaries. At one point, a poll watcher was trying to go in with a voter and help mark the ballot. That's illegal. That was the report I got."
Harrison County Circuit Clerk Gayle Parker also received complaints from election holders.
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