JEFFERSON CITY - With long waits at the polls fresh in their minds, legislators will begin considering tomorrow whether Missouri should allow early voting.
The House Elections Committee will hold a hearing at 8 a.m. on an advance voting bill…
Long lines marred Election Day in Velda City
More than a dozen St. Louis County polling sites had waits of five hours or more on Nov. 4, the St. Louis Voter Protection Coalition said today in a report to the county’s…
Members of Missourians for Honest Elections, a nonpartisan group that first raised questions three years ago about touch-screen voting machines, says that its members “have phoned the 64 people who said they had problems voting in Velda Village on Nov.…
Velda City voters waited as long as six hours
In case you missed it in today’s ink edition, check out the compelling story by Post-Dispatch scribe Elizabethe Holland about the the long lines endured by voters in Velda City.
The culprit: A break area…
P-D reporter Michele Munz, on the scene at Velda City city hall, says the line of voters waiting to vote is about 300 people.
An earlier estimate was 200.
And there are just 10 minutes until Missouri polls close. (Although everyone in…
Problems persist at Velda City city hall, says P-D reporter Michele Munz.
More than 200 people still waited to cast a ballot as night fell and the closing of polls neared. The wait: about 5 hours. Which, oddly, is an improvement…
A county election official talks to an Obama rep in Velda City
At his press conference, St. Louis County Republican Director of Elections Joe Goeke said he was unaware of problems voting in Velda City.
The P-D has described scenes of six- and…
Voters endure a long wait in Velda City
Here’s the story: County election officials told us the Velda City polling place was supposed to get three touchscreens and eight booths for 1,195 registered voters.
Here’s what the P-D’s Elizabethe Holland saw:
Three touchscreens,…
