Trouble voting in Boone County, Missouri

A Family article with View Comments posted 7 November 2006.
Tags: missouri admendment 2, politics, voting

Well, I went to vote in Boone County, Missouri this morning at the Hawthorne Suites in Columbia, MO, and had some trouble. I called Boone County yesterday and changed my address, and I was told that Jennifer and I’s names would be in the “black book” instead of the “blue book”. All of that went okay until I went to turn in my ballot. One of the election judges came over and insisted that I was casting a provisional ballot, and another actually took hold of my ballot and tried to take it away from me. When I didn’t let it slip out of my fingers, she let go. When Jennifer pointed out that she had cast her vote normally just a minute earlier, they finally let me feed the ballot into the scanner. If you are voting in Boone County, Missouri today and you changed your address as recently as yesterday, your ballot is NOT provisional.

They had one electronic voting machine at my polling place. It warmed my heart to hear no fewer than 10 people in a row turn down the “opportunity” to vote with an electronic voting machine. I guess they wanted their votes to actually be counted in this election or something. Some people are funny about that, I guess…