Louisiana state official suggests shakeup at polls
From Ballotpedia
October 8, 2008
The Louisiana Secretary of State Jay Dardenne is considering replacing poll workers a the New Orleans Parish may have sabatoged votes by blocking voters that were not affiliated with a party.
Disenfranchised districts
Dardenne's office received complaints on election day from people who said they were denied the right to vote in the Democratic primary at eight New Orleans polling locations, and complaints continue to come in, including some from Jefferson Parish precincts. New state laws state that voters not affiliated with a party should have been allowed to vote in the Democratic primary, though not in Republican primaries.[1]
Training
While all the election commissioners were trained on the new law, it's been speculated that many were to set in their ways that it was lost of them.[1]
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