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: Legal Pad | LABusy volunteer lawyers report voting glitches on Election Day
By Richard Binder
Lawyers who volunteered to take calls and monitor polling locations nationwide on Tuesday reported voting machine malfunctions, polling places opening late and numerous incidences of names missing from voter registration rolls.
Voting machine breakdowns also were reported in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and jammed machines popped up in San Francisco and Los Angeles, said Jenny DaSilva, a volunteer attorney who is working in the San Francisco call center at Bingham McCutchen, which sent more than 120 lawyers to polls in Florida, Nevada, Virginia and San Francisco.
Read the full NLJ article here.
Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on November 05, 2008 (boomark / email).
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