KMBC:

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas returned to his polling place of 11 years Tuesday morning to cast his vote in the Missouri presidential primary only to be turned away.

Lucas made a video for his social media accounts promoting the importance of voting on primary day, only to find himself unable to vote….

ucas followed up to his original tweet saying he spoke to the election director Tuesday morning and will be following up further. Authorities told Lucas that a poll worker inadvertently entered his name into the system incorrectly.

Kansas City Election Board Democratic Board Director Lauri Ealom said the issue boils down to human error.

“When I saw the Twitter fed, I immediately went and looked him up,” Ealom said. “I called the poll. I asked for the gentleman who waited on the mayor.”

Ealom said the poll worker transposed the mayor’s name, and entered Lucas’ last name as his first name, and his first name as his last name.