A move that was supposed to save money may have ended up costing some Livingston County residents the right to vote in their local school board elections.
Democratic poll challengers working in absentee ballot counting boards in at least one township report that some absentee voters were mailed ballots containing the wrong school board race. In order for the ballots to be counted on the tabulator for the proper school district, the votes had to be manually transferred to new ballots.
Of course, the poll inspectors doing the duplication had no way of knowing how the voters might have voted in the proper school district election. So those contests had to be left blank. Tough luck.
Who knows if this spread beyond one township or beyond Livingston County. The Michigan Secretary of State's office might well know.
This mix-up is a result of a Michigan law that allowed school districts to move their elections from May to November. The move is ostensibly to save money but a Republican desire to turn non-partisan contests into ideological battles probably was part of the motivation.
As a result, the precious right to vote, purchased with the sacrifices of our military as well as civilian activists, is a little more disposable.
3 comments:
Nice try, Judy.
You Democrats like to have the school elections in the summer so that the turnout is small and then your beloved MEA can control the outcome.
Sorry, but the party's over.
If this happened, it is NOT a result of the new elections law, but a result of poor execution of the delivery of absentee ballots. That can be fixed.
What can't be challenged is that far more people voted in these school board races than ever. How can the spread of democracy be a bad thing?
Gee, you mean all those Republican clerks in Livingston County can't do their jobs correctly?
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