Voter Deception Continues Up to the Last Minutes of Election
Here is the latest of our updates on voting issues throughout the day. Share what’s going on at your polling place on our Open Thread here.
- The Minnesota Independent reports that three voters of Somali origin at a polling place in Minneapolis claim a translator working there was instructing people to vote for Republican Sen. Norm Coleman. The translator works on Coleman’s staff. The chief election judge eventually asked the translator to leave.
- The Election Protection coalition says its representatives have fielded complaints from voters who were informed that Election Day had been moved to Wednesday, Nov. 5. Some of the text messages are deliberately aimed at Democratic voters, saying that Obama supporters should cast ballots the day after Election Day, said Heather Smith, who’s been coordinating outreach efforts for Rock the Vote. The organization has fielded complaints of inaccurate text messages sent to Florida State University students and messages listing the wrong day to vote posted to several Facebook groups.
