the NC Democratic Party sent me a letter

[barbtries]

saying that when they reviewed the public voter file records, "we also noticed that you failed to vote in 2009 or in the 2010 May primary."


WTF??? i voted in both those elections. where did my votes go??

[struggle4progress]

1. Eh, it's somebody's data entry error: the board of elections has

lists from when you checked in to vote, and those eventually get entered into their database, in a process entirely separate from the process of counting your vote; then the parties get copies of the BOE records and massage their copies for their own purposes

As a volunteer who has sometimes done data entry and has sometimes made mistakes, I apologize on behalf of everyone who sometimes does data entry and sometimes makes mistakes

[barbtries]

3. you're right

i finally reached someone from a voter's watchdog email list yesterday and he directed me to the page where i checked my votes and they were all there. thanks. and thanks for what you do.

[struggle4progress]

4. The SBOE site is useful for double checking stuff like this:

http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/VoterLookup.aspx?Feature=voterinfo

[molly77]

2. I hope you follow up on that.