Partisan Republicans Aggressively Seeking To Become Election Officials In Florida

[babylonsister]

Can they be anymore obvious??

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/06/22/504616/partisan-republicans-aggressively-seeking-to-become-election-officials-in-florida/

Partisan Republicans Aggressively Seeking To Become Election Officials In Florida

By Adam Peck on Jun 22, 2012 at 3:03 pm

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The Herald-Tribune in Sarasota, Florida reports that election supervisors, long considered dull administrative desk jobs with little to no influence on policy, have become hotly contested jobs attracting political heavyweights in some counties along the state’s West Coast:

• In Sarasota County, three-term county commissioner Jon Thaxton, a Republican, is challenging supervisor Kathy Dent.

• In Manatee County, state Sen. Mike Bennett, a Bradenton developer known for antagonizing Democrats in Tallahassee, is banking that his decade of name recognition will help him succeed retiring supervisor of elections Bob Sweat.

• In Charlotte County, former four-term county commissioner Adam Cummings is looking to unseat first-term incumbent Paul Stamoulis.

• In Hillsborough County, former state Rep. Rich Gloriso, a Republican, passed up an opportunity to run for the state Senate to instead run for supervisor of elections.

The trend is troubling, and could perhaps signal the next front in an ever-expanding political battlefield. Already, a handful of isolated Election Day incidents—most notably Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus’ botched 2011 special election in Wisconsin—have stirred controversy.

[Iggy]

1. Obvious

If it is indeed so obvious, then democratic party officials and congresspeople
need to be vigilant and stop it.

[Turbineguy]

2. Wasn't that something that Stalin said?

It's not who votes that's important, it's who counts the votes that's important.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

3. Not sure how the election supervisor positions are handled here in Virginia

But there are "election officers" from both parties at every polling place. I'm an election officer in Fairfax County, and there has to be at least one Republican and one Democrat at each precinct for the entire day. If there isn't an election officer from one of the parties, then an officer from the other party has to represent the interests of the other party during the day. I've never seen that happen, so I don't know how it would go.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. It's good that people are now learning how to track the chaos.

You can do the same by following a certain circle of city attorneys & attorneys in Central Florida. Tight circle.

[KakistocracyHater]

5. tea party started by becoming election commiteemen?

something like that, it's the first step to getting control of politics. WHERE'S OUR SIDE? Out of work people-GET over there & take it from the GOP