Opinion ID: 770321
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Kimberly Nathan Warren

Text: 51 Kimberly Nathan Warren is a registered voter, and she lived in Crawfordsville, Arkansas, at the time of the election. She had lived at her family home in Crawfordsville since 1988, with the exception of three months in 1996 (ending in September) when she lived outside the City limits in the McNeil Apartments. Ms. Freeman and Ms. Warren had known each other for years. Ms. Warren's father had worked for the City, and Ms. Warren paid the water bill in her father's name at the Water Department where Ms. Freeman works. 52 When Ms. Warren went to the City polling place to vote on election day, Ms. Freeman told Ms. Warren that she did not live in Crawfordsville. Ms. Warren insisted that she did. Her name had been listed in the County register under her maiden name, Nathan, apparently reflecting the short time when she lived outside the City. 53 We are firmly convinced that the defense position with respect to this plaintiff is not plausible. Ms. Freeman had known Ms. Warren for years. It is true that her name was not in the City register, but that was not a sufficient reason for the treatment that Ms. Warren received. Under the instructions that had been given to the poll workers, Ms. Warren should not have been turned away. No election worker called the Clerk's Office, and no one told Ms. Warren that she could fill out an address-change form and vote. No one offered to allow her to vote a challenged ballot on paper. No one even informed her that she ought to go across the street and cast her vote in the County polling place. As a consequence, she was altogether denied the right to vote. We believe that the finding in favor of Ms. Freeman with respect to Ms. Warren's claim is clearly erroneous. There is no substantial evidence that any of the other defendants played a part in Ms. Warren's difficulties.