The most alarming thing to me is the bit at the end about throwing people out that have candidate T-shirts on. Did I read that right?
http://www.news8.net/news/stories/1008/558138.html
New measures are being taken to make sure irregularities in September's D.C. Primary vote don't happen in November. Officials at the D.C. Board of Elections say they now know what caused 1,500 extra votes to appear in the count.
326 people voted at the Reeves Center precinct on primary election day in September. Their votes were captured on a computer cartridge, but the Board of Elections says when it put the cartridge into the citywide computer to be counted, 1,500 write in votes appeared from nowhere. The board completed its investigation of what might have happened and blames static electricity.
"One of the many possible causes could be an electric charge or static discharge," said Errol Arthur, D.C. Board of Elections. Some city residents, like Beatrice Fink, laughed at the explanation. Resident Eddie Jewett said, "Could have used a more elaborate one than that."
Council member Jack Evans, infuriated by phantom votes, is calling out the board. "You mean if I'm rubbing my shoes on the way to vote, I'm going to upset the entire voting process in the District of Columbia and then the nation? I hope not so. I hope we can get this thing straightened out."
While the September election had one of D.C.'s smallest turnouts, the Presidential election is expected to set a record. Board members said they realize it and are going to take their time, as their report recommends. "We're not going to sacrifice accuracy for speed. We are going to do anything we can to make sure what we report on election night will be accurate," said Arthur.
Evans said that's not good enough. "There's no excuse for slow results." The board promises more workers and better equipment to get the situation fixed.
Also, voters wearing paraphernalia, caps, t-shirts and stickers, for candidates to the voting precinct, the board of elections said if poll workers see it, they will throw people out.