Jefferson Co. poll workers failed to ask voters for IDs

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Poll workers at two Jefferson County locations on election day did not require voters to provide acceptable forms of photo identification, one of many documented mishaps identified in a state report.

Four Secretary of State poll inspectors who reviewed activity at 34 polling places in the county reported that voters at the Hamshire Community Building and at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School locations were not required to provide acceptable forms of ID.

County Clerk Carolyn Guidry said she received the inspectors' reports this week. Guidry said she had been too busy organizing Tuesday's recount in the district clerk race and other post-election activities to review the report or question volunteer poll workers on its findings.

"That's not good," Guidry said of the voter-ID notations. "These things are covered with (poll workers during training sessions). We have to depend on them to do what we are required to do. Sometimes they mess up. That's all I can say."

Also revealed in the report: