Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Arkansas Elections Election commissioner resigns
Posted by Max Brantley on Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 1:58 PM
Charles Tapp, long-time chairman of the Garland County Election Commission, tendered his resignation today, accordiing to George Hozendorf, chairman of the Garland County Democratic Committee, which selects two people to serve on the commission. It is effective the close of business Friday.
Tapp led the commission in the decision to limit runoff polling places in Garland County to two, a decision that has prompted a pending lawsuit.
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I've known Charles Tapp a long time. The kindest thing I can think of to say about this situation is, "Alzheimers?"
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So,, 13 per cent of the registered voters in Arkansas voted yesterday? The other 87 per cent didn't give a red rat's ass, eh? I'm thinking of joining them.
I like my vote having an 8 fold increase in power. Plus I like more MOTIVATED AND INFORMED citizens voting.
I do not want the other 87% voting if they have not done the more important portion of the duty to vote, the duty to be informed about the choices.
There was aclassic case of uninformed voting in San Diego County for school board. A fellow just happeded to have name nearly identical to a trusted official, he won.
He beat a retired teacher, 30 year active volunteer in PTA. The fellow winning did not have a high school diploma and lived with his mother and was not allowed within 1000 feet of an elementary school due to a previous conviction.
In my oppinion, the way to get more citizens active, informed and voting is to kill the corporate ownership of all candidates.
Why go vote if the choice is a dude owned by big pharma agaisnt a guy owned by big insurance and Wall Street?
I am with you Citizen1, "Why go vote if the choice is a dude owned by big pharma against a guy owned by big insurance and Wall Street."
It seems kind of pointless. At the same time, I couldn't wait til I turned 18, that way I could vote. I wanted to vote since I could read the newspaper and my daddy taught me how to do that when I was four.
Ah the "party of the people" preventing the people from choosing their candidate. The Democratic party is as corrupt as ever. I'd like to know if Rahm Emmanuel instructed Charles Tapp to limit voting to prevent a Lincoln loss. Perhaps the Arkansas Times could interview Charles Tapp and ask him about outside influences and do a foi on any contact from the White House, Senator Lincoln's office, or possibly Bill Clinton acting on behalf of the White House. Charles Tapp likely didn't make this decision on his own, yet he is the fall guy.
This is good news. Sure hope there will be an investigation? It would take Alzheimers to explain why a fellow after 18 years on the job would suddenly decide to ignore 95 percent of his duty on election day.
Why were the State and Feds (and D Party?) so silent even with days advance notice from the commissioner?
From what I understand, Garland county always reduces its polling locations to two during any run-off election. Why is this the first time anyone has complained? Seems to me they are just being consistent with what their voting population has allowed in the past. Not saying that I agree with that policy at all, but they were being consistent.
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