But an untallied percentage were turned away at the polls because they weren't registered. That's apparently what happened to Bodinger, the Miami Beach man. For reasons no one could explain, he never received his voter card. Thousands of people from states such as New York, Illinois and Maryland complained that they had registered to vote through motor vehicle departments but that their names did not appear on voter rolls. Similar isolated complaints were lodged around Florida.
Most applications go through the mail, others go by courier.
Some get lost en route. Another problem area, Lambert said, is people who registered and received their voter cards, but who didn't realize they had missed the deadline for voting in the presidential election. One citizen complained that the driver's license clerk never told him that. And others resent it and don't do it as well,'' the supervisor added.