Democrat says she felt 'sheer disbelief' after being left off ballot in 1 Arkansas county

[babylonsister]

Democrat says she felt 'sheer disbelief' after being left off ballot in 1 Arkansas county
by Staff and wire reports | Today at 11:03 a.m.


An Arkansas county temporarily closed most of its early voting sites after the Democratic nominee for secretary of state was left off the ballot, a glitch the candidate said left her in "sheer disbelief."

An official with the Garland County Election Commission said three of the county's four early voting sites were closed at times Monday because ballots did not include Susan Inman, the Democrat running for secretary of state. The sites have since re-opened.

Monday marked the start of early voting for Arkansas' Nov. 6 midterm election.

“I received a text from a friend who went to the early voting poll and said my name wasn’t on the ballot,” Inman said late Monday morning. “Of course I was in sheer disbelief.”

Inman said she contacted the Garland County Election Commission. Once the Election Commission confirmed that her name was missing from the ballot, however, officials closed the polls, the candidate said.

“This should have never happened,” Inman said. “This is an actual failure of election officials to check their materials.”

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https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2018/oct/22/garland-county-shuts-down-early-voting-locations-a/

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Election fraud possibility, eh? So the repugs have run out of ammo on voting rights, and now ...

are deliberately messing up ballots too? Can't believe that no one caught this...

[rockfordfile]

6. That's exactly what it is.

[MiniMe]

2. They aren't even being subtle about it any more

[MagickMuffin]

3. I would say I find this unbelievable, however, . . . . .

not any more. This is the only way the repugnant party can win!

[Botany]

4. I am sure this was just kind of simple mistake.

n/t

[tinrobot]

5. When was the last time a Republican was left off the ballot?

Not recently, that's for sure.

[TomSlick]

7. Let's not forget Hanlon's Razor.

The Garland County polls were immediately closed when the error was discovered and reopened when the fix was made.

Garland County is not a rabid GOP stronghold I am sure this was a simple error.

[Mr.Bill]

9. How do you fix this?

People have voted for that office without her being there as one of the choices.

Short of tossing all the ballots that have been cast and then letting those voters re-vote, I don't know what could be done. Even that wouldn't be a perfect fix, because some of them may not vote again.

[TomSlick]

10. They had replacement ballots PDQ.

Once the error was discovered, they did the best that could be done.

[benld74]

8. Mother Truckers

[ThoughtCriminal]

11. Mistake on our ballot for a local office

Where it was supposed to say "Select no more than two", it said, "Select no more than three".

Voters were sent a new ballot that only included selections for that office.