Have you ever been prevented from voting?

[Mr. Illini]

Last year I had to have my friend that I had gone to vote with sign an affidavit confirming who I was. It was my first election living at my current address and so I had recently registered to vote here. The clerk's office messed up my name on the registration and so my name on my proof of residence (a piece of mail required to present upon first time voting) did not match that which appeared on my voter registration.

The poll worker was very nice and wanted me to vote, but he said had I gone to vote alone rather than with my friend (who signed the affidavit) he wouldn't have been able to allow me to vote.

A couple of my neighbors have had their names badly misspelled when they filed to vote as well and we live in an 80% Obama precinct in a county with a Republican county clerk (despite being a Likely D county). I can only wonder if his office does this on purpose and then passes it off as "entrance error" to prevent our liberal precinct from voting.