Should Detroit Hold The November Election?
According to TheDetroit News, there are major problems in Motown and they point to Madame Currie!
Currie has been accused of irregular election practices in several lawsuits, and a review of election results, property records and databases of registered voters uncovered procedures that experts and other election officials described as questionable.
Among findings by News reporters were ballots cast by people registered to vote at abandoned and long-demolished buildings; a master voter list with 380,000 incorrect names and addresses — including people who have died or moved out of the city; and a practice of hand-delivering ballots from senior citizens and disabled voters that were filled out in private meetings with Currie’s paid election workers.
But the most poignant findings were stories from those in nursing homes who had recently voted absentee.Among them is Charles B. Allen, a resident at the Passion Caring Home for the Elderly who stared blankly one day last week when asked to name the mayor of Detroit. He’s never heard of Kwame Kilpatrick and can’t recall whether he voted in August.
“I just don’t know,” Allen said. Six years ago, a Wayne County probate judge declared the 87-year-old legally incapacitated due to dementia and Alzheimer’s.
But according to city records, he voted in the August primary by absentee ballot.
He did so with the aid of Rose Johnson, one of City Clerk Jackie Currie’s 50 election assistants, who met with him in a private room and helped complete his ballot, according to nursing home owner Gena Payne. Johnson declined to speak to a reporter.
You can see the rules for absentee voting in Michigan, here
November 1, 2005 - 07:59 AM on November 1st, 2005
This was the article I was referring to in a note to Kilo.
This is just one more reason Liberals can not be trusted in positions of power.
November 1, 2005 - 09:25 AM on November 1st, 2005
Detroit is what happens when democrats gets a stranglehold on politics. The democrats run the place like it’s their own little fiefdom. Corruption and crime are everywhere. Truly not the same city my mother grew up in where she could take a bus home from a Wings game at midnight and not think twice about crime. There is hope though, the city managers have screwed up so badly now they’re on the brink of receivership. Maybe someday soon they’ll throw out the corrupt government and start over fresh.
November 1, 2005 - 02:57 PM on November 1st, 2005
New Orleans and the State of Louisiana are more proof.
November 1, 2005 - 11:11 PM on November 1st, 2005
:evil
rake is right.
November 2, 2005 - 01:02 AM on November 2nd, 2005
I was going to say I would give odds that Currie was a Democrat. I guess saying a corrupt election official and liberal Democrat being one and the same is a bit redundent.
It’s like the old Joke about what do you get when you cross a corrupt politician with a sleazy lawyer? Chelsea Clinton.
November 2, 2005 - 10:28 AM on November 2nd, 2005
I’m not at all surprised by this. I’m out in the extreme outer ‘burbs of Detroit (close enough to know what’s going on, but beyond the reach of Detroit politics), and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
It’s odd to me that the city council has at-large representation instead of wards. You could have the entire council living on the same block or neighborhood representing the entire city. You should read some of the stories of their antics.
One councilmember, who had ran for mayor against Kilpatrick, accused him of rigging her chair massager to electrocute her.
This same person has almost gotten in physical altercations with other members.
Several have been investigated for using public funds to hire the family members of other councilmembers for $20+/hr to do minimum wage work.
And it goes on an on…