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CITIZENS TO AVOID EVENTS WITH LARGE CROWDS. CODY: CAN THE CITY MARRY QUINTON LUCAS IS FINALLY ABLE TO CAST HIS VOTE. HALEY: IT WAS THE SECOND TIME- THE MAYOR MADE HIS STOP AFTER- SOME ISSUES. MATT FLENER EXPLAINS WHAT HAPPENED. >> SOME PROBLEMS AT MOUNT PLEASANT CHURCH WERE MAYOR QUINTON LUCAS SHOWED UP TO VOTE. THERE QUINTON LUCAS ON TWITTER TUESDAY MORNING SAYING HE WAS TURNED AWAY FROM HIS POLLING PLACE. >> THEY COULD NOT ME IN THE SYSTEM. >> THE MAYOR SAID HE HAD TO LEAVE FOR A MEETING. LATER FINDING THE WORKER PUT HIS FIRST NAME AS HIS LAST NAME. >> I SAID I WOULD RATHER MAKE SURE MY VOTE IS REGISTERED SO THE PRESS CAN ATTACK ME YEARS LATER FOR NOT VOTING. >> TO MY UNDERSTANDING, HE WAS NOT TURNED AWAY. I WANT TO CHANGE THE WORD CHOICE. TURNED AWAY MEANS YOU CANNOT VOTE HERE AND GO HOME. >> THE DIRECTOR SAID IT WAS UNFORTUNATE PROBLEM THAT HAPPENED AND HIGHLIGHTS THE NEED FOR YOUNGER POLL WORKERS WHO CAN BETTER HANDLE TECHNOLOGY USED FOR VOTING. >> IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM, CALL THE ELECTION BOARD. DO NOT TWEET, DO NOT INSTAGRAM. CALL ME. SERIOUSLY. >> J ASHCROFT CHIMED IN ON THE CONTROVERSY. >> HE DECLINED TO HAVE THE SUPERVISOR FIX THE PROBLEM. HE DECLINED TO VOT A PROVISIONAL BALLOT. HE IS MAKING A MOCKERY OF THE ELECTION SYSTEM. >> IF IT HAPPENS TO ME, THAT IS A SIGN A CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE.

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Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas returned to his polling place of 11 years Tuesday morning to cast his vote in the Missouri presidential primary only to be turned away. Lucas made a video for his social media accounts promoting the importance of voting on primary day, only to find himself unable to vote.Lucas tweeted about the incident saying he was told he was turned away because he wasn't in the system, despite having voted at that location for 11 years, including for himself four times. "If the mayor can get turned away, think about everyone else," he said in the tweet. "We gotta do better."Lucas followed up to his original tweet saying he spoke to the election director Tuesday morning and will be following up further. Authorities told Lucas that a poll worker inadvertently entered his name into the system incorrectly. Kansas City Election Board Democratic Board Director Lauri Ealom said the issue boils down to human error. "When I saw the Twitter fed, I immediately went and looked him up," Ealom said. "I called the poll. I asked for the gentleman who waited on the mayor."Ealom said the poll worker transposed the mayor's name, and entered Lucas' last name as his first name, and his first name as his last name. Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft said the mayor's account of the polling incident is "inaccurate.""He declined the have the supervisor fix the problem," Ashcroft said. "He declined to vote a provisional ballot. He is making a mockery of our election system."Lucas returned to the polls to vote Tuesday afternoon. Ealom said this issue highlights why younger poll workers are needed."The key point here is average poll worker is 75 or older ... this is the reason we need younger poll workers," she said. Ealom emphasized that if something like this happens to you, you do not have to leave without casting a ballot. You can still fill out a provisional ballot on site. If you encounter a problem at a Missouri polling place, you can contact the Missouri Elections Integrity Unit Hotline at 1-800-669-8683, or file a complaint online.