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Kelsey Duncan says that while jogging in July, she came across a voter registration table manned by Barack Obama supporters and signed up to vote.
Duncan, 19, is from Oklahoma originally, but wanted to take part in the pomp of Election Day instead of just mailing in a ballot.
Besides, says the Florida Southern College student, "I figured my vote would count more here."
While filling out the registration, she says she started chatting with the people taking registrations.
"I registered as a Republican," she says. "I was raised a Republican. One of the ladies said, 'oh, look, we got another Republican.' I didn't think anything of it."
Until today, that is.
Duncan says when she went to go vote in Lakeland this morning, she was told fuggetaboutit.
If she filled out a registration, it never made it to the supervisor of elections office.
She says she filled out a complaint this morning, and a provisional ballot, but realizes that it is a lost cause.
"I am very upset that I am not able to vote," she says. "They took away my right to vote."
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