Are you done digesting? We celebrated Thanksgiving in Pinehurst NC and returned Sunday night so I’m playing catch-up. What will the CT Post Election Day recount show? How many bodies will they need to tabulate ballots? How long will it take? Is this a waste of time? Voters want to know if the results are legit, right? The recount starts Monday afternoon, and the public is invited to watch it all unfold at City Hall Annex. Maybe I’ll bring along some leftover turkey for the counters.
Details from the Post: www.ctpost.com/local/article/How-the-recount-will-take-place-836087.php
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The Post is going to find what everyone in this city already knows. The numbers submitted were wrong. I guarantee that the Post will come up with more voters than were reported.
What does it all mean? Nothing more than we already know, that BOTH ROV’s screwed up and did not properly do their jobs.
What does this mean to the voter? It means a few or a lot depending on the numbers did not have their votes count. We all know this is wrong. By the same token most voters don’t know they vote for the registrar of voters. Most voters don’t know it only takes 1 vote to elect the registrar of voters. a job that usually goes to one of the party faithful. Most voters don’t know we elect 1 Democratic and 1 Republican registrar of voters. Most voters don’t know it’s all our fault these dolts keep getting elected.
You know what, most voters don’t give a shit.
TC,
Right and wrong … MOST REGISTERED ARE CONSTIPATED … you register and then don’t vote? What type of citizen does that? Do you think of yourself as patriotic? So where are you when it comes time to pay taxes, put money in the meter, respond to a food or clothing drive for those more needy than you, become a mentor or coach, etc.? Are you willing to express your mind, or is it only when you are voting for a direct benefit for you or your family that you bother to go to the polls?
At the risk of raising Marlys’ ire, once again, if there is a formal education or training process that poll workers are to be held responsible for, across the City (or whole State), then why do we leave that training mission to people, supposedly expert, who messed up in so many ways several weeks ago? People are getting college degrees and doing all sorts of advanced education on the Internet these days. Why can’t we require poll workers to go through responsible training since they are paid? Why aren’t all the details (like when Murphy’s Law occurs) set out for voters and workers to understand? And might we learn whether our Voter Registration files list too many people today?
There are at least three ways of making real voting citizens very upset: the first is to deny people the opportunity to vote for issues and elected representatives–for the most part that is not the Bridgeport story where people were registered and failed to come out to vote; the second is to allow them to vote but then leave in doubt whether that ballot counted; and a third might be to create so much confusion (while still being compensated) that any respect for the process is looked at as stupid or dim-witted. And that, sportsfans, is behavior that corrupts the election process. The C-word (corruption) enters our municipal discussion once again. You know how your computer files can be affected when hurtful messages are received and not diagnosed promptly? Well, those are corrupted files, and through the bumbling and less than amateurish behavior of well-paid City officials, we have another week or two at least before those of us who pay attention to issues like this will get a better look at what happened!!! At that time we can see how big the pile of S**T is or how wide the S**T has spread … and perhaps it will give pause to those who bear a S**T-eating grin all the time!!! Who’s bragging???
BEACON2 // Nov 29, 2010 at 12:02 pm
To your point, which is a most accurate picture …
Now translate this level of inefficiency that borders on irresponsible, and apply it across the majority of City Departments in the City of Bridgeport. This will give you an idea as to the number of suggested recommendations for performance improvement that the CitiStat Department gave to the Mayor during the time it existed under John Gomes.
The point is this kind of Election day functional breakdown is not limited only to the Office of the Registrar of Voters. Functional breakdown is pervasive … throughout City Government operations.
I refer you to: johnmgomes.com/WP/johns-blog so you can appreciate that there is an opportunity to return the CitiStat approach to reforming the way this City serves the people of Bridgeport.
*** Same outcome with some changes in the vote numbers but not enough for the 2000 recount calls, etc.. Post will write a big editorial on how they forced City Hall’s hand & how voters should buy Post papers for all their hometown local news! *** FORGETABOUTIT ***
BEACON2, you wrote,”TC, Right and wrong … MOST REGISTERED ARE CONSTIPATED … you register and then don’t vote? What type of citizen does that? Do you think of yourself as patriotic? So where are you when it comes time to pay taxes, put money in the meter, respond to a food or clothing drive for those more needy than you, become a mentor or coach, etc.?”
Well, BEACON2 is that a question in general to OIB readers or is it directed at TC? TC does not need me to say anything on his behalf, in fact on most things we are on a different page but on the mentor and coach portion is something TC has always done since I first encounter him, he does not brag about it.
Ron,
Apologies for running too many ideas together. TC is right about everything he wrote, except he asked the question, “What does it mean to the voter?” I think his point would have been made by asking, “What does it mean to the registered citizen who does not vote?”
I agree with TC most of the time with a tip of the hat to his practical knowledge of the system, his experience in Bridgeport politics, and his willingness to listen to a variety of opinions always trying to coax out a better way for us to handle things in Bridgeport.
Sorry for leaving confusion in anyone’s mind. Most of us who live in Bridgeport and post here on a regular basis are voters and proud of it, but what about the large number of neighbors who fail to take advantage of this basic right? It is not good for our community in so many ways, and yet it is a marker for citizen ignorance and/or apathy. Deadly …
Thanks Ron. BTW did you audition for the firefighters calender? I did and I think they are still laughing. How about we put together an old goats calender?
Hey TC, if you can get 11 more retired firefighters to go in with you, we’ll run it!
Ray if I were able to get 11 more old goats like me we would have to issue the calender for the halloween holiday. Stay Safe and have a happy holiday.