[EL] election day protection - query

[Doug Hess]

Do you recall what problems the 20-30 people (those you would see in the
mini-courts pre-HAVA) would have? I.e., what was the range of reasons (and
which most frequent) that they were told to go to the mini-court? For
instance, "I was on the rolls here before and now I'm not" or "I sent in a
registration application and now I'm not on the rolls", etc.   Any
recollection on the frequency of the outcome of the complaints?

(As an aside, that 20-30 people had the problem raises the question: how
many more were also turned away at the precinct but decided not to bother
with going to the mini-court? Probably not easy to know. Would be nice to
have precincts log each such event, regardless of what the voter goes on to
do.)

Doug

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From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu  On Behalf Of
Greenberg, Kevin
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 4:09 PM
To: 'Frank Askin'; 'Rick Hasen'; 'law-election at uci.edu'
Subject: Re: [EL] election day protection - query

Frank,

Pennsylvania had this more generally before it was terminated by a change in
state law when we went to provisional ballots post-HAVA.

In Philadelphia, we had about a dozen mini-courts in police stations around
the city.  In a few elections I did a half-day shift and would see 20-30
people come through.  Extrapolate out, we are probably talking about 500
voters in a day.

Pennsylvania still allows for emergency absentees that require judicial
relief for people who become unable to vote in person (typically
hospitalization) after 5 pm on the Friday before the election.  We typically
see 3-4 of these a year, in a county of 1.4 million people.

They now co-locate this process with Election Court, which sits to handle
all election-related issues in the county.

Kevin Greenberg
Flaster/Greenberg PC
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