Two stories from the BCCT.
Residents complain about election officials
MORRISVILLE SCHOOLS
Two election officials this year are involved with the school board, prompting complaints from area residents.
Morrisville School Board member Marlys Mihok is working as judge of elections this year.
Elected to the position in 2005, Mihok will be in charge of setting up the polling station, assigning duties to other election officials, submitting paperwork and closing the polls.
According to election code, an individual cannot hold an elected office and serve as an election official at the same time.
However, the county suffers from “extreme difficulties” finding people who are interested in working for municipal elections, said Deena Dean, director of the Bucks County Board of Elections.
So unless someone expresses interest in replacing a current election official, the county will take whoever wants the job, Dean said. She’s not sure how commonly this conflict of interest occurs in Bucks.
Maria Buckman, the wife of incumbent school board candidate John Buckman, is also an election official this year. Though she’s a minority inspector, she is not running for office, so there is nothing to prevent her from working as an election official, Dean said.
The NAACP’s Bucks County President John Jordan called both examples a “disturbing” conflict of interest.
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MORRISVILLE
The NAACP plans to post representatives at every Morrisville polling station during Tuesday’s primary election.
John Jordan, the organization’s Bucks County president, said he wants to make sure people aren’t subjected to intimidation. In the week leading up to the election, Jordan said the local office of the NAACP received several phone calls complaining about voter intimidation. Jordan couldn’t provide details.
No police reports have been filed, according to the Morrisville Police Department.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
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Heard from a very reliable source that Bill Hellmann was caught red-handed yesterday removing a sign for BECK, MILLER, JENKINS, & STONEBURNER and discarding it on the ground. He then proceeded to knock on that resident's door, presumably to cajole the resident into keeping it down.
Yep, that's the procedure - take down opposition sign, then ask for permission. Just like defease bonds, then admit later it cost $2.5 million. Or hire Wick Fisher White on your own, then get board vote to pay for report. Or send buyout letters to teachers, then get board to authorize buyout plan. Or personally drop MR Reiter from furnace repair bids in July, then watch furnace explode in December.
Minutes later, Hellmann was gone and the BECK, MILLER, JENKINS, & STONEBURNER sign was back up.
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