 The North Carolina Republican Party filed a complaint Tuesday with the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections, charging election officials coached voters on how to cast a straight Democratic-party ticket. According to the GOP, election officials have given ballots to voters at one-stop voting locations and then provided "unsolicited, yet explicit, examples of how to vote for U.S. Sen. John Kerry and then a straight-Democratic ticket." According to the complaint, voter Wayne Sorenson was told by an election official "to vote the straight Democratic ticket all you needed to do was push this button." The election official then held her finger over the button as if to suggest that she was happy to push the button for Sorenson, the complaint said. This pattern has been repeated by other election officials in Mecklenburg County, according to witness reports. |