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Largo Woman Could Have Voted Twice

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By HOWARD ALTMAN | The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 4, 2008

4:28 p.m.: If she were devious, Cynthia Mackintosh of Largo could have voted for a second time today.

Mackintosh, a 36-year-old Spanish teacher at Countryside Christian Academy, spent three hours early voting on Sunday, according to her husband, Bill Mackintosh.

When he went to vote this morning at Precinct 352 in Largo, he looked at the register, saw his wife's name and noticed it had not been marked as having voted.

That sparked a concern.

Either his wife's vote didn't count, or she would be able to vote twice, he says.

"I thought it was interesting," he says. "I am not sure what it means."

It means that his wife could have voted twice, according to Nancy Whitlock, spokeswoman for the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections.

"When they vote early, we stamp that they voted early next to their name in their precinct register," says Whitlock. "On Sunday, I am not sure that process was done, because we had to get the precinct registers to the polling places. There is the slight possibility that someone could vote twice. Most of them were already stamped in the book, but just a few aren't."

Even if someone voted twice, that doesn't mean the vote will count, says Whitlock. In fact, anyone voting twice would likely be caught and charged with a felony, she says.

"We find out after the fact if someone voted twice and turn those names in to the state attorney's office," she says.

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