Ohio on the Connecticut

Once upon a time, I never seriously trafficked in conspiracy theories. I have come recently to believe a healthy level of paranoia is, well, healthy. So has anybody heard anything that parallels this e-mail I received? (Feel free to e-mail me your reply rather than posting.)

   ... I was a moderator at the Dem primary in my town. One thing that struck all of us was how many voters we had to turn away because they were not on our list, and when we checked with the registrar's office, they were listed as independent. Most of them were very upset, said they had always been Democrats ...Many of them wanted to change their status to Democratic, and I told them how, and they said they would, but it was too late for the primary. One dumbstruck woman was actually listed as Republican ...

Comments

[MurphyBrown]

I still get mail from my town's Republicans, even though I left them to register as independent shortly after Dan Quayle blamed the ills of the world on "single mothers like Murphy Brown."
I though about registering as a Democrat to vote in this primary, but I needed a better reason than Dan Malloy looks a little like Steven Colbert!

But speaking of Ohio....
On the same day this blog appeared, I noticed (on WFSB.com -- it has since rolled off) an article on 65 teen pregnancies at one high school in that bastion of conservative family values AKA George W's favorite campaign stop AKA Canton, Ohio. Could this be a conspiracy on how to create more Republicans?

[Raymond J. Houle]

I think that a lot of people who self-identify as Dems register as Independents because this is already a Dem state so the Party doesn't need the head count, and why make the Dems cockier? Besides, Independent sounds cooler.
But when a primary comes along that brings out the big numbers many "Dems" forget how they registered.
That's my theory but here's my fact: the guy in front of me at the voting station in Terryville was registered as a Republican but claimed he was a life-long Democrat. Hmmm.....

[kim from meriden]

I also worked the polls, I'd have to say we turned away 1 out of 10, or 12, trying to vote in the primary, saying they had always been Dems, but showing up on the list as independant. We also had a few Republicans trying to vote. I couldn't tell with any of them which way they wanted to vote.

[Boyd]

It's more probably incompetence on the part of the a few of the many people who are a part of the process.

This happened to me - I went to vote in a Democratic primary a few years ago, and I was turned away. I went to register as a Demovcrat before this primary, and was told I already was.

Never discount the possibility of incompetence in favor of conspiricy.

[Bobby McGee]

I'll bet a lot of those people were trying to vote for Lieberman.

[Karen]

And Lamont probably won by much more than 4 points. No way those larger city Democratic establishments are clean in a close race. They probably do a lot of dirty stuff in races that aren't close, just to stay in practice. They've got the information about voters who are on the rolls and never go to the polls so someone else can be sent to vote in their place. They must do a lot with absentee ballots and old people. There are probably a lot of people registered at empty lots who vote.