Voting problems per Kansas City Star: Statewide/Kansas City area and Lee's Summit

[workinclasszero]

Long lines greet voters as polls open on Election Day in Kansas and Missouri
BY LYNN HORSLEY AND ROBERT A. CRONKLETON

November 06, 2018 05:42 AM

Update 10 a.m.: Election monitors have received numerous reports from across Missouri, and in the Kansas City area, about poll workers wrongly telling voters they need to present photo ID.

Voters in Missouri do not need to present a photo ID. They can present another form of ID, such as a voter registration card.

Update: 9:45 a.m.: At the polling location at Lee’s Summit City Hall, the single machine used to collect ballots stopped functioning about 7:30 a.m.

A line backed up out the door.

“With that large of a crowd, they should have had a backup” machine, Brigitte Thompson said.

“That’s what we’re all baffled about.”

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/election/article221167130.html#storylink=mainstage

[2naSalit]

1. Purposeful ineptitude...nt

[workinclasszero]

3. I'm sure GOP controlled redstate Missouri has a good explanation

[OKNancy]

2. later in the article

Corey Dillon, Democratic director for the Jackson County Election Board, said that the ballot counter did go down at that location and had to be replaced. It was down for about 20 minutes before a different machine was brought in, but it is up and running.

[workinclasszero]

4. I wonder how many dem votes were lost in those 20 minutes?