Field Report from Ohio - Election 2008

A month after Election Day, filmmaker Sanford Lewis released a video report profiling the problems that numerous Cleveland area voters had casting their ballot. According to the filmmaker, voting did not go as smoothly as was commonly portrayed. Many voters faced serious problems with mail-in voting. Thirty thousand voters in just this one county cast provisional ballots that were not included in the results announced on Election Day; by the time provisional ballots were counted 10 days after Election Day, 7000 of these ballots were invalidated.

Had this election been closer, we would have heard a lot more about these disenfranchised voters, and theres no question in my mind that many of the provisional and absentee votes would have been contested in court, said filmmaker Sanford Lewis, who is also an attorney, based in Amherst, MA.

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• reform
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[h8tebred]

This is why you should have to go to the polling station or not vote. Too much trouble.