{"id":256,"date":"2018-10-13T20:10:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T20:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/?page_id=256"},"modified":"2022-03-27T18:05:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T18:05:59","slug":"problems-on-election-day","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/?page_id=256","title":{"rendered":"Problems on Election Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>NAME NOT IN THE POLL BOOK? ASK A POLL WORKER TO:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ask Voter Services about your registration<\/li>\n<li>Direct you to the correct polling location<\/li>\n<li>Give you a provisional ballot you can track<\/li>\n<li>You should also follow up afterwards (see below)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>VOTING MACHINE NOT WORKING?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Double-check that the voting machine registers your vote properly. \u00a0If you notice any problems:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DO NOT press the &#8220;cast vote&#8221; button and DO NOT leave the booth. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay in the booth and ask for a poll worker to examine the problem<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insist that you be allowed to vote on a different machine <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Request the Judge of Elections to take the broken machine out of service<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Write down the ID # of the machine<\/span><\/li>\n<li>If none of the machines are working, you have the right to vote on an emergency paper ballot (see below)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Follow up Afterwards (see below)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>FOLLOW UP AFTERWARDS<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Call the Election Protection Hotline (866-OUR-VOTE)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Email your county voting office and cc yourself. \u00a0For <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Montgomery County,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> email <\/span><a href=\"mailto:voters@montcopa.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">voters@montcopa.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u00a0For <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delaware County<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, email <\/span><a href=\"mailto:DelcoElection@co.delaware.pa.us\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DelcoElection@co.delaware.pa.us<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Use our Contact Form to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/?page_id=2\">report issues<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>FOR MORE INFORMATION<\/h2>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.pa.gov\/voting-pa-know-rights\/\">https:\/\/www.governor.pa.gov\/voting-pa-know-rights\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAME NOT IN THE POLL BOOK? ASK A POLL WORKER TO: Ask Voter Services about your registration Direct you to the correct polling location Give you a provisional ballot you can track You should also follow up afterwards (see below) VOTING MACHINE NOT WORKING? Double-check that the voting machine registers your vote properly. \u00a0If you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/?page_id=256\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Problems on Election Day?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-256","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/256\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}