Whitey Ford
03-10-2020, 05:14 PM
Kansas City mayor is turned away from polls, told he ‘wasn’t in the system’
Moments after making a plea for people to get out and vote in the Missouri primary Tuesday, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas was turned away from the polls and told he “wasn’t in the system,” the mayor said.
Lucas tried to cast his vote before 7 a.m. at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church at 22nd and Olive streets, where he said he has voted since 2009. Soon after, he posted a message on Twitter saying he was not allowed to cast a ballot because a poll worker could not find his registration.
Election officials later blamed the incident on a mistake by a poll worker, and it was expected Lucas would be able to vote later in the day. But the mayor said the incident pointed to a larger problem in how elections are run.
“I made a video this morning about the importance of voting and then got turned away because I wasn’t in the system even though I’ve voted there for 11 years, including for myself four times!” Lucas said.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article241052486.html
Moments after making a plea for people to get out and vote in the Missouri primary Tuesday, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas was turned away from the polls and told he “wasn’t in the system,” the mayor said.
Lucas tried to cast his vote before 7 a.m. at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church at 22nd and Olive streets, where he said he has voted since 2009. Soon after, he posted a message on Twitter saying he was not allowed to cast a ballot because a poll worker could not find his registration.
Election officials later blamed the incident on a mistake by a poll worker, and it was expected Lucas would be able to vote later in the day. But the mayor said the incident pointed to a larger problem in how elections are run.
“I made a video this morning about the importance of voting and then got turned away because I wasn’t in the system even though I’ve voted there for 11 years, including for myself four times!” Lucas said.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article241052486.html