Photo id required (not)

An aberration or a pattern? You be the judge.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Secretary of State Robin Carnahan raised concerns about potential voter confusion in Tuesday's elections, citing her own experience casting an absentee ballot as an indication that some poll workers may wrongly be asking voters for a photo identification.

Carnahan told The Associated Press on Monday that a worker at the St. Louis Election Board asked her three times to show a photo identification when she voted absentee last Friday - despite a Missouri Supreme Court ruling striking down the photo requirement.

The poll worker apparently did not recognize that Carnahan was Missouri's chief elections official when Carnahan showed a paper voter card mailed out by the local election authority. The card does not have a picture but is an acceptable form of identification under Missouri law.

Take your cell phone with you to the polls tomorrow, and if you see any hanky panky like this, call 1-888-DEMVOTE or 1-866-OURVOTE to report the problem. Remember, photo ids are NOT required anywhere. The courts have repeatedly struck them down.