TUNICA, Miss. — After Thursday, Meg Coker said she was relieved the state of Mississippi will look into last month’s election.
She told WREG the Democratic Primary left her discouraged and disenfranchised.
“I am supposed to be a voter in District 2,” she told us. “When I went to vote on election day I was told that I was not supposed to vote in District 2.”
Coker said she was told by the poll worker at the Tunica Library she would have to vote at the elementary school a few block away and in another voting district.
Coker filled out an affidavit ballot but said the poll worker didn’t complete the form and it was tossed out.
“There were 27 affidavit ballots that were thrown out from District 2 at one precinct. There were 15 from District 5 that were thrown out from one of the precincts there,” she said.
She was glad to know the irregularities will be looked at by Mississippi’s Secretary of State and other agencies.
But the mess also left a bad taste in the mouth of Curley Matthews who ran for District 5 Supervisor.
Matthews said those uncounted ballots affected his bid for election.
“I just need to know whether I won or lost,” he said. “Because as it is now, I don’t really know. All I know is what I’ve been told, but I haven’t been shown that I lost.”
Matthews filed a complaint and is hoping for justice.