I've Been Purged

Backstory:
I moved to St. Louis City in 2002, and registered to vote there. Had no problems voting.

I moved to St. Louis County in 2004, and registered to vote there. Had no problems voting (the City and County are separate entities, making St. Louis one of the few independent cities in the country).

I moved back to the city in 2006, and registered to vote through the Motor Voter program when I switched my licences' address. However, I was not on the voter rolls in the 2006 primaries, because they had my address incorrect in the city voter rolls (they had me listed as living on Lindell Blvd in the Central West End neighborhood, where I had lived until 2004, rather than in South City, where my new address was).

I went to the city Board of Election Comissioners, filled out a change-of-address form, and had no problems voting in the 2006 general, 2007 city, or 2008 primary elections.

This morning I went to vote and discovered that I was not on the roster of eligible voters in my precinct.

I also discovered I was not on the inactive voter roster in my precinct.

After an hour of waiting in line for the one judge helping voters (there was quite a line, apparently this has been a minor but still semi-frequent problem today in the city), I discovered that my address had been "rolled back" in the city rolls to my county address. I asked why, and was told that "an automated system" had rolled my address back to the county. I did manage to vote, provisionally.

But this is still a freaking joke. Eight years after the nonsense in 2000 that illegally purged tens of thousands of voters, and this city, one of the oldest west of the Mississippi River, still can't come up with a decent system to track eligible voters.