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3.20.2006
Questions and Answers
From The Update:
DEMOCRATS MEET TOMORROW – Wise County Democrats meet Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at Buck’s Barbecue in Decatur to discuss this months’ primary election. “What went wrong, what went right and what must change before November” will be the subject of a discussion led by County Chairwoman Brenda Rankin.
A lot.
Not much.
More W press conferences.
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Barry ....
You hit the "Nail on the Head" ... I want to know ...
When did Democrats become NON CHRISTIANS?
Now now Barry, let's be equal with the Republicans of Wise County. They are gonna have a meeting too!
What a treat is in store for them!
Phil (zzzzzzzz) King will be the speaker!
Life without Liberal's WHAT A THOUGHT!(It would be like heaven)
Life without the Republicans would be heaven!!!!!!!
Life without politics would be heaven.
Thanks for the blog. Last night at the Democratic monthly meeting, Party members were told what went right, what went wrong and what must change before November.
What went right? 61 Election judges/clerks did a great job counting the paper ballots in the polling precincts. Not one election worker broke down and had to be replaced during election day. (can't say that about DREs) The first polling precinct to report in at the County Clerks office was Democrat South Decatur!
What went wrong? The Democratic Early Voting Ballot board were at the county clerk's office at 4:00 p.m. as scheduled; however, early voting except, for a few mail-in ballots, were counted before the board convened. The Secretary of State office was notified and an attempt to get the board back to the County Clerk's office was made for the early vote to be re-counted in the presence of the Early Voting ballot board per election code. One member could not be located by 6:30 preventing the re-count of the early votes.
In the county clerk's canvass report the number of Democrat voters changed from 168 (first report electon nignt) to 157 final report. What happened??? In a close race 11 voters' votes would make a big difference.
At 9:30 electon night, the Democrat paper ballots, early voting were tabulated waiting for the results of the electronic votes by Democratic Party central counting station workers. The county clerk denied the Democratic party the tally print out from the polling precincts judges booth controllers. Democrats working in central counting had to wait until about 1:30 to finish tabulation to get the final report from the DRE votes.
Democratic judges waiting in line to check in ballot boxes were told by the county clerk's employees to wait until the Republican judges voting machines were delivered to central counting. County Clerk told Chairwoman the Democrats were holding up the line and it wasn't fair to the Republicans. What ever happened to the right of being first in line? First come, first served!
Chairwoman requested to be in Central Counting for the electronic voting and was denied by the County Clerk. Chairwoman was denied the right to appoint an assistant to be in central count (DRE). The Secretary of State's office intervened and a representative of the Democratic Party was present at Central Counting and Chairwoman was given the right to come and go from Central Counting (DRE).
Why did it take so long in Central Counting for electronic voting? There was a problem in scanning the Ballot Now (electronic) ballots in the Republican Paradise Precinct. They had the a similar problem scanning the mail-in ballots at 4:00 in the afternoon. Could part of the problem be how the ballots were formatted? Who knows?
What must change before November?
The Early Voting Board must function according to the election code.
Democratic judges observing electronic voting report voters took an average of about 5 minutes to vote...14 voters to a DRE per hour! In Bridgeport, voters waited up to one hour to vote. If the county has 100 electronic voting machines, how long is it going to take voters to vote on election day in November?
The Ballot Now paper ballots must be in place in November to prevent long waitng lines during peak voting times.
Voter suppression of long waiting lines as experienced in the 2004 Presidential race in Ohio is the last thing we need happen in November in Wise County.
There is a lot of work to do before November for electronic voter education.
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