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First election in Nebraska with a voterID requirement. What issues, if any,
are you aware of? Very few? There are very few issues.
Our voters were well informed about whatthe requirements were, our poll workers were
well trained. Our election officials acrossthe state did a marvelous job. You
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know. There were three hundred andthirty three thousand plus ballots cast yesterday,
and out of that there were lessthan one hundred provisional ballots were filled out
based upon ID problems. So itjust went very closely. That's good to
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hear. And I know, BrianCruz, Douglas County Election Commissioner, I
was looking into this. We werecommunicating last night. I saw I saw
one that and this guy apparently,according to his ex post on we used
to be Twitter, apparently works fora news channel Nebraska, and he said,
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here's his post. He says,my attempt to vote this morning failed.
His name is Dan Swanson. Hesaid, despite assurances by several election
workers, the poll worker a districtPrecinct III would not accept the photo ID
issued by the Supreme Court. AndI don't know if he followed up on
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that. I'm not aware of aSupreme Court ID. Bob are you,
and would that be a problem ifyou presented that. Well, he had
a media as I understand it,he had actually a media credential ID issued
by the Nebraska Supreme Court that hadhis photograph and his name on it,
right, And that's a very unusualID to use. I mean, you
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have to ask him why did hechoose to use that as opposed to,
for example, the driver's license.It was probably in his hip pocket.
I don't know, that's up tohim. That's it was. It was.
It was a valid ID under thestatute. The problem was really not
the ID. The problem was thatthe name on the ID was was kind
of ambiguous, and that there wasanother name just like it on the voter
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rolls. There are two names onthe voter rolls in that county that were
very similar, and that was thatwas the discussion, as I understand it.
He could have, even if therewas ultimately a problem, he could
have voted a provisional ballot and clearedit up with the county clerk later.
But he chose not to his Iunderstand, and he chose to just leave.
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Huh. Yeah, I would thinka provisional would be the way anyway.
That's another Yeah, that would explainthat if it's an unusual idea and
there are two identical names, youmight say you better do a provisional.
Apparently he decided not to. Wellthat's good, I would help everybody.
Now, you and Rosie were onhere approximately every twenty minutes for the last
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month telling everybody you know, well, I'm sure that's the reason Gary things
went so smooth. Exactly, wemade it clear anybody who doesn't have an
ID will be shot on site.Yeah, that's what the Actually we didn't
say that, but we left theimpression that that was a possibility. I
want I want your radio listeners toknow we did not say that. No,
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no, we didn't say that.We made that up. I can't
maybe, but uh it was ActuallyI thought it was very well done at
my polling place, because you hadsomebody there to check the ID. That
took five seconds, and then youwalked over and it was just like the
good old days. You signed thebig book at the ballot the being but
a mom by the way you goand well the person, the person who
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checked mine was the same person atthe big book, so you had a
different a different person. Yeah,okay, Yeah, that was very said,
and I like your website too.Your website is as easy to navigate
as any election night website I've everseen. And this is why because you
talk about reporting but not complete,so you know exactly what's happening in real
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time for all of the races.The only thing I couldn't find there were
these battled initiatives in Omaha the citycharter on your website. But that's okay
now that that will be on theon the on the Douglas County website,
but not on the state website.And I have to say that the election
officials across the state did a reallyfine job yesterday and and the election officials
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in the Elections Division of the Secretaryof State's Office really did yeomen's work yesterday.
And I congratulate the members of theelections in the Secretary of State's Office,
and I congratulate our election officials acrossthe state in Nebraska for the really
outstanding job that they did yesterday.Yes, no doubt, but one question,
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Secretary of State at evonon some onyour website, some of the race
this is where there was only oneperson running are shown and others are not.
And what I'm thinking about specifically isOPPD There were a couple of subdivisions
where there was nobody running against theperson, and they're not on your website,
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but in some of the legislative districtsthey are. All of the legislative
districts they are. Why is that? I can't answer that, but I'll
be happy to look into that andlet you know. All right, all
right, well so far, sogood, smooth sailing, Robert, Thank
you always, good to have youon, good to be with you.
Thank Rask. The Secretary of StateBob Evnon here on kfab's Morning News
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