Some laugh when crazy, straight jacket fitted fringe candidates scream and file lawsuits against the Osceola County Supervisors of Elections. Then we see an article that the office mistakenly prints incorrect information on the absentee ballots that have already started to be sent out to voters. Are the loonies really loony?Year after year and election after election there are charges, spoken or whispered, leveled at the Elections Office for improper practices which most people just ignore or chalk up to "That's just how things are done in Osceola County." The problem is that the balance of power between "Special Interests" and the people has come to a boiling point because the "mistakes" that are made always seem to favor candidates backed with developer dollars. Mistakes on ballots, voting precincts with no lights turned on in the heavy voting times of the early morning hours in heavily Hispanic communities, and counts that magically shift hours after the majority ballots have been counted, all seem to point to something much bigger. But who is to say?
Some candidates figure the voters are stupid anyway, so what does it really matter. “What concerns me is there is a percentage of voters who do not look at the candidates and just check the first box on the ballot,” Eck said, “Hopefully, absentee voters are more educated and it won’t make a difference.” Which translates to, "We know the voters are stupid, which is how we keep passing stupid crap by them without their knowledge, so why are are we even talking about this?"
The article in the Osceola News-Gazette states that "Click called every one of the Kissimmee candidates to apologize, she said." What about calling the voters and apologizing to them. Voting is not about candidates. Voting is not about who gets the most developer money. Voting is about the freedoms the citizens of this country are able to exercises because of the power and belief of one vote actually being able to make a difference. While many may just sluff off mistakes made on a ballot with a quick "Oops, we did it again!" mentality, voters need to demand more from an office that wields invisible and final power over our rights and our freedoms. The WayneWho staff dug through several biographies of those around the authors of the Constitution of the United States of American and could find no evidence that anyone in that room in Philadelphia uttered the word "Oops" or that after the final draft was put out that anyone had to redo the document because of a "Clerical Mistake." Maybe pride in one's work counts for something when it comes to protecting developers rights. Oops, we mean voting rights. We apologize for that.
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My biggest frear is that someday Beulah or Armando is proven right over their.
Some of the time they are right, but because of their reputations they will never be believed.
Just ask Chuck Dunnick what they tried to do to him?
Those people don't vote anyways so who cares...
Chuck Dunnick is a has been.
Don't these guys ever quit?
The voters have spoken is anybody listening?
It is always funny (but sad) when we hear the good old phrase "clerical mistake".
Such was the case at the recent City of Kissimmee budget workshop were the City Manager informed the City Commission that a "mistake" was made on last years fire fee.
The mistake ? He informed the commission that the apartments were not billed correctly. They were billed by buildings and not by units.
The cost to the city for the "mistake" was $450,000.
But according to our Mayor "thats OK, the fire fee was new so "mistakes" happen".
So with that the $450,000 was dismissed without further thought.
So much for "mistakes" "clerical errors" and the like.
It is always funny (but sad) when we hear the good old phrase "clerical mistake".
Such was the case at the recent City of Kissimmee budget workshop were the City Manager informed the City Commission that a "mistake" was made on last years fire fee.
The mistake ? He informed the commission that the apartments were not billed correctly. They were billed by buildings and not by units.
The cost to the city for the "mistake" was $450,000.
But according to our Mayor "thats OK, the fire fee was new so "mistakes" happen".
So with that the $450,000 was dismissed without further thought.
So much for "mistakes" "clerical errors" and the like.
Did anyone see Eyewitness news on Friday. Click strikes again. Lost several change of party cards. One person mailed 3 of them in and hand delivered another 3 weeks prior to June 28th. Another mailed one in in December and hand delivered another in April. Guess what? They cannot be found. Is this another Oops?
For someone who has been in that office for 23 years, she needs to be retrained. Sorry Connie but the facts speak for themselves. Learning from Donna wsn't a good thing. Oh by the way, when running for election, why is she allowed to be in the room counting ballots?
Maybe we should let all the candidates in to help count. How ridiculous.
Any chance there are some staffers trying to influence the SoE election by making the boss look bad?
Fat chance!
Connie is doing a good job. Minor things like this happen all the time. It is just getting blown up all out of proportion.
Minor things...... What are you calling minor?
Sending out Absentee ballots with names in the wrong order?
Sending double Absentee ballots to some addresses?
Telling Chuck Dunnick he can run, no he can't, yes he can run?
Losing voter registration party affiliation change cards?
Chalifoux on the ballot now off the ballot, shouldn't your office no the rules to inform and assist the candidates properly?
Not putting pd. pol. adv. disclaimer at the bottom of her website?
If these are the minor things that we are aware of, how many minor things has Connie also messed up on? Maybe you have lower standards, but this type of management is unacceptable-especially in such an important office where lawsuits can be brought against the county-
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