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Oldsmar Woman Told She Already Voted

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By HOWARD ALTMAN | The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 4, 2008

11:45 a.m.: Denise LaMorder says when she went to vote this morning at the library on St. Pete Drive in Oldsmar, she experienced an unwanted sense of deja vote.

"They told me that I had already filled out a ballot and mailed it in and had already voted," says LaMorder. "But I never received anything in the mail. So I went to another desk and they called another office, canceled out that vote and let me vote again."

LaMorder, 43, says her father surmises that someone might have taken the mail-in ballot out of her mailbox.

"Even though I voted, I wanted people to know, because how many other voters has this happened to," she asks.

Nancy Whitlock, communications director for the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections, says the situation arose because LaMorder requested an absentee ballot but never mailed it in.

No one, says Whitlock, used the ballot to vote in LaMorder's stead.

"Everything is perfectly fine," says Whitlock.

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