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New Port Richey Mom Fights For Son's Vote

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By HOWARD ALTMAN

Published: November 4, 2008

6:52 p.m.: In New Port Richey, Shelly Stevens says she is about to have a stroke.

"My son did everything right to vote, but they wouldn't let him," she says between sobs.

Her son, Don Stevens III, registered just before deadline at the Pasco County Department of Motor Vehicles office while getting a new license. But when he showed up to vote this evening at Precinct 103 at the River Ridge Country Club, he was told he could not.

"His grandfather is turning over in his grave," says Shelly. "He just died and to him, politics was everything. Every single night."

But all may not be lost for Don Stevens III

Precinct supervisor Barbara Vasiljevich says she is going to do everything in her power to make sure that Stevens gets to vote.

"We are wanting this young man to vote and he is ready to vote, and we are giving him a provisional ballot and we exchanged phone numbers," she says, "I am going to talk to the supervisor in the elections office on Little Road and make sure his provisional ballot counts."

Vasiljevich says she understands Shelly Stevens' concerns.

"The mom is a wonderful mom," she says. "She is trying to get her son to vote. It seems that his registration through the DMV was no good. It did not get into the system, even though he did all the right things. We are going to make sure everything counts in the morning."

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