Six Democratic and one Republican members of the Jacksonville City Council called Thursday for an investigation into complaints of people turned away from Duval County polls on Election Day. They are not calling for Tuesday's vote to be thrown out due to these problems, but they want the process of voter registration to be investigated.
Council members say that they've heard from hundreds of people about problems with voting.
The process in question occurs when people register to vote while renewing or getting a new driver's license, but that information never made it to Duval County's supervisor of elections. At this point no one knows how many people people were turned away at the polls because of similar problems. In addition to Fullwood, council members calling for the investigation are King Holzendorf, Suzanne Jenkins, Patricia Lockett-Felder, Mary Ann Southwell, Gwen Yates, and Republican Alberta Hipps. They urged any voters who had problems voting to contact the supervisor of elections. They also said if a citizen thinks they were turned away illegally, they could to initiate legal remedies.