BIKE: Questionable Voting Practices

[Fred Meredith]

I live out in Manchaca and the Capital Metro bus service comes into 
my voting precinct, but we did not get to vote on the commuter rail 
proposal either.

Fred Meredith

At 5:08 PM -0500 11/2/04, Kevin Corry wrote:
>On Tuesday 02 November 2004 2:13 pm, Michael Bluejay wrote:
>>  For what it's worth, I pass this along without comment.
>>
>>  -MBJ-
>>
>>  Begin forwarded message:
>>  > From: "Almaraz, Francisco" <francisco.almaraz>
>>  > Date: November 2, 2004 10:32:55 AM CST
>>  > To: "'BicycleMail'" <BicycleMail>
>>  > Subject: Questionable Voting Practices
>>  >
>>  > My girlfriend voted for the light rail.  She lives in Pflugerville. 
>>  > When her Mom tried to vote (she lives in the same house); she could
>>  > not navigate the voting machine to vote for the light rail.  The
>>  > person assisting voters told her that since she lived in Pflugerville;
>>  > she could not vote for the light rail.  But her daughter did vote, and
>>  > they have the same address.
>
>Interesting. I live in Pflugerville and I voted the first day of early voting
>(about two weeks ago). I did not see the commuter rail initiative on my
>ballot at all, and I went through the whole thing at least twice. I just
>assumed that since I live in Pflugerville, that it wasn't a choice for us,
>since Pflugerville doesn't participate in CapMetro. I'm actually very
>suprised to hear that someone from Pflugerville *was* allowed to vote for it.
>
>--
>Kevin Corry
>kevincorry
>
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Fred Meredith
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