October 09, 2004
Voters wait for absentee ballots
The fight over whether or not Ralph Nader would be on the ballot is being blamed for the tardy arrival of absentee ballots in Hillsborough County and elsewhere.
Jeb! appointee Buddy Johnson has been full of excuses lately as he tried to downplay his incompetent handling of the primary election, but his opponent Rob MacKenna is letting him slide on this one, saying that the delays were understandable.
Rob may be being a little kind, since at least one supervisor was able to overcome the odds and get ballots out in time.
Ion Sancho, Leon County's veteran supervisor of elections, said he mailed all of his 8,000 absentee ballots Sept. 27 and some have been returned.``We figured out exactly what we needed to do, did it, and got our ballot printed,'' he said. ``The process has gone without a hitch.''
Ion Sancho is the same one who was at the forefront of the fight against the seriously flawed Florida felon list, and he is constantly fighting for the rights of voters to vote. Jeb!’s Buddy could learn a lot from a guy like Ion. Too bad Buddy is such a closed-minded old fool.
Posted by Norwood at October 9, 2004 09:16 AM