Posted on 09/20/2002 4:44:35 AM PDT by ChipShot
Edited on 09/20/2002 5:30:54 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Faced with the prospect of being booted from office, Broward County's election supervisor finally apologized Thursday for last week's voting debacle and agreed to accept county help running the November election. It was substantially the same deal that Supervisor of Elections Miriam Oliphant had rejected less than 24 hours earlier.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
I'm going to ask the same question I always ask.....where were the elction commissioners during all this mess?
TRANSLATION: Your days of using your position to influence elections is over.
Dont worry about the post. The self styled posting police are not up yet. If they did not complain, no one would know they were alive. Good job....
What I do dislike are exit polls.
Never forgot driving home in Nov. 1992 to vote. The airwaves were full of Clinton glee. It was 4:00 PM.
RAAAAAAALPHHHH!!
Schreiber, in graphic and unprintable language, told Oliphant that not only had she botched the Sept. 10 election, but that Bush was looking at removing her and that the turmoil in her office could threaten Tampa lawyer Bill McBrides chances of defeating Bush in the November election. He said the election problems in Broward could suppress Democratic turnout in Broward, a key to the success of McBrides campaign.
....She always wanted to cooperate, but somehow that was lost in semantics, he said. Eggelletion added, Miriam, despite her good looks, gets extremely nervous, especially in front of the press.
What a mess, sounds like a circus down there. And the Dems are peeing their collective pants over this one.
Bushs dilemma
Oliphant teetered toward possible removal over the past week. But the prospect of having to remove Oliphant would have put Bush in a politically untenable position.
If he did nothing, he would face national criticism for Floridas election problems and would be accused of failing to take action because the problems were in a largely Democratic county.
But her removal would have created a backlash among black voters, because Oliphant is Browards only countywide elected black politician. It also would have opened Bush to questions over why he didnt take similar action because of the irregularities with the 2000 presidential election.
Ah, same old story. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Her color has become the complicating issue here and overrides her incompetence.
The wonders of entrenched bureaucracy. She does not even have to retire, to enjoy the benefits.
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