FOX 23.com
11/05/2012
Reported by: Ian Silver
Thousands of Tulsa voters cast their ballots during early voting, but a small handful were turned away at the polls because they were no longer registered to vote.
Kiersten Lane wanted to teach her two young children how important it is to vote.
"We waited until they got out of school on Friday and we went and stood in line for about an hour," Lane said.
But that hour-long wait turned out to be a waste of time.
"It took them about 10 minutes to find me in the system, and they said that I had been deleted and taken out of the system due to inactivity."
According to Oklahoma law, there are five reasons a person's voter registration can be canceled:
-The death of the voter.
-The voter is convicted of a felony.
-The voter is legally determined to be incapacitated.
-The voter moved out of the area and registers elsewhere.
-The voter has not responded to correspondence from the county and has not voted for more than four year.
But none of those reasons apply to Lane and her husband.
In 2004, Lane and her husband voted absentee from Fort Hood, Texas, where her husband was on active duty in the U.S. Army. In 2008, they were stationed at Fort Sam Houston outside San Antonio, Texas, and again voted absentee.
"I am worried," Lane said. "They aren't accounted for. There isn't a record whatsoever of our votes for the last eight years."
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