Polling Place Rules and Etiquette
Guidelines to help the election process go smoothly.
Hopkins got some unwanted attention during the 2008 presidential election. An elderly Somali woman who spoke little English had her name on a list of registered voters, but an election judge started questioning her right to vote. The judge asked how the woman got her citizenship when she couldn’t speak English. The judge was overstepping her authority. Judges aren’t allowed to withhold a ballot because they think a registered voter couldn’t read it, and they’re not supposed to use a person’s language to question citizenship. In this case, the situation turned out OK. Other voters in line demanded that the judge let the woman vote, and the judge relented. Then-City Clerk Terry Obermaier said the judge would be allowed to return to the …
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