This is designed to help with both ballot distribution and parking, two major barriers voters encountered in February's primary.
Anderson is still fearful that these changes could cause problems for affected voters.
"I'm scared. I think some people may get confused," Anderson said. "We got new voter registration cards, but some people may not pay attention to the change."
Rosemarie Hart has been a member of the Chesterfield Electoral Board since March and is among the leaders focusing on making the election smooth for all voters.
Hart said notices and maps have already been distributed in the districts that were affected by polling changes.
"We have sent out notices and maps to the people affected," Hart said.
Despite what should be shorter lines, Anderson feels that it is an imperfect solution.
"First of all, I have to drive through two other precincts to get to mine," Anderson said. "I drive by my old polling place. That doesn't make sense. Hopefully I won't have to wait as long, and hopefully people won't get discouraged, but I think it's going to cause confusion when it's time to vote."
Haake expects 80 percent to 85 percent turnout for 2008's election, an increase from 74 percent voter turnout in the county in 2004's presidential election. However, Chesterfield is preparing for turnout to exceed all expectations.
Hart said there would be no recurrence of ballot shortages for the upcoming election.
"We have been working hard to ensure that doesn't happen again," Hart said. "We will actually order more than 125 percent of the ballots needed compared to our registered voters."
Extra ballots were available during the primary season, but the few that remained had to be delivered, missing many of the voters. Hart could not comment definitively, but hoped that all extra ballots would be distributed among the precincts.
In the most populous areas of the county, electronic polling books will be used to streamline check in and speed up the voter process.
Hart explained how 16 polling places plan to use this technology.
"When you come in, rather than having a written book and dividing everyone into sections of the alphabet, we will have four electronic poll books, and voters will go to the next available machine, very much like a bank teller," Hart said.
Anderson said that communication is the biggest improvement needed.
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Seems that no matter what the Registrar does, this woman will complain about it. Perhaps they should put her as the Registrar since she knows it all. But I doubt she would do anywhere near as good a job as the current occupant. He didn't anticipate 300 more people turning out? Ok it happens, it was just a primary.
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Lamie sounds like an appropriate name for you. The woman is complaining because her vote wasn't counted, cowboy. If your voted wasn't counted, would be OK with it. Don't think so, Palin is going to have to get as many low information voters as possible.
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