From Ballot Access News:
Chicot County, Arkansas, elected its County Assessor in a partisan race last week. The only two candidates on the ballot were Democrat Barbara Esters, and Green Party nominee Elizabeth McCoy. The County Clerk says the vote totals are 2,227 for the Democrat, and 2,226 for the Green. However, the County Clerk refuses to count one absentee ballot, and even refuses to open the envelope to see whom that one voter voted for.
The Chicot County Election Commission is meeting at 9 a.m., Thursday, November 13, to decide whether to open the absentee ballot or not. The Election Commission will also decide whether to hold another election to break the tie (if there is indeed a tie), although there may not be any authority in Arkansas law to hold a run-off when only two candidates received any votes in the first round. If the Green Party wants a recount, the county may charge the Green Party approximately $1,100 to pay for it.
Chicot County is in the extreme southeast corner of Arkansas, bordering Louisiana and Mississippi. The Green Party nominee, Elizabeth McCoy, is very well-known and liked in the county.
There’s an update. There is going to be a recount, that the Green Party will pay for. That one absentee vote had not been counted because the County Clerk thought she wasn’t supposed to count it until today, when the Election Commission met. Apparently that vote was for the Democrat.
I dont see how they can ask the Green Party to pay for the recount either.
But,good.
There’s an update. There is going to be a recount, that the Green Party will pay for. That one absentee vote had not been counted because the County Clerk thought she wasn’t supposed to count it until today, when the Election Commission met. Apparently that vote was for the Democrat.
So is most of everything the government does.
If the absentee ballot was properly filed how can they not count it? This is surely unconstitutional.
Or it could just be blatant bias and corruption.
It could be because the ballot was late?
Interesting that they would be so blatant as to refuse to count the vote in this situation.
An election coming down to one vote! That’s great!
lol. Well, what does the Green Party offer that the Democratic nominee doesn’t? Socialist idealism over corrupt cronyism? decisions, decisions