Candidate questions Lepore on ballot errors. Dr. Arthur Anderson.

[madfloridian]

Dr. Anderson is a Dean Dozen candidate for Palm Beach County elections supervisor. Another Dean Dozen is running in Hillsborough County for elections supervisor. Rob MacKenna.

http://www.blogforamerica.com/archives/004953.html

SNIP..."Anderson Speaks Out on Ballot Errors
Voter confidence took another blow in Florida this week when 22,000 absentee ballots mailed to Palm Beach County residents contained misleading and outdated information about verifying their vote. The ballots indicate that without the signature of a witness, votes would not be counted in the November election. In fact, a Florida law effective July 1 explicitly eliminated the requirement of a witness signature for absentee ballots.

The responsibility for this mistake lies solely with Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections, Theresa Lepore. As Lepore explained in the Palm Beach Post on Thursday, "Everybody looked at it, and no one caught it." Remember Theresa Lepore? She was Supervisor of Elections during the 2000 election when thousands of Palm Beach County butterfly ballots were kept from being recounted. She is also an ally of Jeb Bush in opposing a paper trail for the faulty electronic voting machines she helped install.

Thank goodness Dean Dozen candidate Dr. Arthur Anderson is challenging Lepore in the August 31 early election. He said the error "contributes to the loss of voter confidence.... For them this is just added confusion." Anderson is committed to a verifiable paper trail for electronic voting machines and working with Palm Beach County youth to increase participation in the electoral process. The primary responsibility of a Supervisor of Elections is to ensure voters are able to vote and that every vote is counted. Isn't it troubling when the current office holder has a record of failing to make even those assurances to the people she represents?

—Walker Waugh, Democracy for America

Posted by Guest Writer at 06:30 PM

Forgot to post Anderson's website:
http://www.electarthuranderson.com/

[Cha]

1. God, yes I remember thersa lapore..

I abhored her even though she was a democrat..fair or not.

She is like a pox on our election process..I would have thought she would have gone into another business by now.

[Tatiana]

2. If I'm not mistaken...

She was a registered Republican before switching to Democrat. I always thought she was a stealth Repub.

[Cha]

3. That would make sense...little did we know..

But now we know a lot and that would be another way for the repukes to kill our votes and get Florida.

[Paradise]

4. Yup! n/t

[berry]

6. I thought so too.

She showed zero remorse for the butterfly ballot--which didn't make sense if she cared about the havoc she had wrought (even if by mistake). It didn't help to find she used to work for Adnan Khashoggi (spelling?) of BCCI infamy. But I hadn't known she was a registered Republican...

I also started then to be really worried. What if, starting 20 years ago or so when all the Right Wing so-called think-tanks were getting started, the Republicans also started to register as Democrats and take over all the local voting machinery? Not only in Florida. This is my paranoid fantasy--and I can't convince myself it is impossible.

[madfloridian]

5. Wexler, who started the voting lawsuit, is endorsing Anderson.

How could LePore NOT know about this change. It was all over the papers.