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Voting problems near Wright State University
Wright State University junior C.J. Weitz showed up to vote at the Highlands Apartment Complex near Wright State at 6:30 a.m. But it took him more than two hours - as well as one fight with a poll worker - before he got to cast his votes.
Weitz, who went to vote with a friend, waited in line for well over an hour, but ran into trouble when he got to the front of the line.
The poll worker asked to see his driver’s license, and, when she saw it didn’t have his current address, told him he had to vote a provisional ballot.”
“I told her I wasn’t going to vote provisional because when I even registered I made sure it wasn’t a problem,” he said. According to the Ohio Secretary of State’s office, voters need to have a current and valid photo identification, but it does not need to show the current address for a driver’s license or state identification card.
Weitz, originally from Cincinnati, currently lives in Dayton.
He moved to the provisional line, and his friend said he was also asked to vote provisional for the same reason. Two other people behind him also said they were asked to cast provisional ballots for the same reason.
Weitz said he showed the poll worker the sign saying that he could vote even if his driver’s license address didn’t match his current address. “She still told me I had to vote provisional or couldn’t vote at all,” he said.
Frustrated, he went and got one of the watchdogs outside, who called lawyers.
Weitz, 19, said the woman ended up being pulled and replaced.
When he finally got to vote, he was asked to vote a paper ballot, which took an extra half hour. He said all told it took him two hours and 15 minutes or a half hour to vote.
He still said it was worth it. “I’d rather not deal with that again,” he said. “But I wanted to vote.”
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