Can we vote to set Palm Beach adrift in the Atlantic? - It used to be that Florida was known for its blue hair retirees. Now it seems we are known by that little county Palm Beach where voting continues to be a problem for people.
Jane Musgrave reports for PalmBeachPost.com:
From the butterfly ballot to the broken arrow, Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore is setting up the county for another election meltdown potentially, said the Delray Beach retiree, who was communications director for Children's Hospital in Miami and a communications specialist for the Palm Beach County School District.
Kemp and others wonder why LePore had to complicate matters by using the broken arrow when voters could be asked simply to fill in a circle to indicate their vote, known as bubbling in.
"People have to bubble in a lot of things today, but I've never seen where you have to connect an arrow," he said.
I guess their calling it the "Broken Arrow Absentee Ballot." If they're not, they should. It's certainly a broken absentee ballot.
George Bennett, for the same paper, reported on August 12:
About 22,000 Palm Beach County voters received absentee ballots this week with outdated instructions telling them their signatures must be witnessed or their votes won't count.
A Florida law that took effect July 1 eliminates the requirement that a witness sign an absentee voter's ballot.
Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore said she and other elections employees didn't notice that a paragraph of instructions on the return envelope for the ballot included a sentence stating that "failure to sign this certificate and have my signature property (sic) witnessed will invalidate my ballot."
They need to get rid of the election supervisor in that county. It's way past time.
