Clay County Election Board

Always helpful and friendly.

Great place and the people there are very helpful.

Always helpful

When I arrived at my polling place at Englewood Vista, 25-30 people in front of me, no big deal. Once I got further inline, I noticed the ballot box was turned around backwards and ballots were being stuffed in the slot in the back. Come to find out that the ballot machine had a paper jam. I asked the election officials what was going to happen once the jam was cleared, I was told that two officials would empty the box, and feed them into the machine. I was like ok fine, but then asked them how they knew how many ballots had gone in and got counted before the paper jam. I could not get a straight answer.

Meanwhile, an official from the County election office came and said to the officials I am here fix the ballot box. She then states I have no identification then proceeds to the ballot box and starts to clear the jam. The election official got up and followed her to the ballot box and told her to stop working on the machine. The official with no id then said I have to fix the machine and kept working on it. The gentlemen said you have no id, I cannot allow to work on the machine. The official then said call this person or this person, and proceeded to work on the machine. I finished my ballot and dropped it into the box, the gentlemen was still on the phone talking to someone. Needless to say, I have lost all confidence in my precinct after the events of this morning. This happened today Tuesday, Nov 8th at 7:30am.