"Wilkerson wants details on write-in ballot handling" by Donovan Slack, Globe Staff | October 25, 2008
State Senator Dianne Wilkerson's campaign, facing an uphill battle after losing the primary to retain her seat, fired off a lengthy missive to the Boston Election Department this week demanding to know how city election officials will be handling ballots cast with write-in votes.
Wilkerson is waging a write-in and sticker campaign for next month's general election, and the letter, sent Wednesday, indicates she is concerned about all the votes being counted and about voters being turned away at the polls.
Just GO AWAY, you LYING LOSER!!!
In the letter, a campaign aide outlines "critically important" concerns about the training of poll workers in counting write-in votes and in advising voters about the process of casting votes for candidates not listed on the ballot.
When candidates' names are not printed on ballots - either because they failed to turn in enough signatures to qualify or, in this case, failed to get enough votes in the primary - they can mount campaigns to persuade voters to write their names on ballots or to affix stickers imprinted with their name on ballots.
But she couldn't GRACIOUSLY STEP ASIDE! No, she wants to continue to MILK the TAXPAYER TEET!!!!
Wilkerson's concerns are rooted in history. In 2006, the last time the senator waged a sticker campaign to retain her seat, Boston election workers failed to count more than 2,500 ballots in her race.
And she still "won," huh? When was the last time a WRITE-IN won a campaign 9outside of dirty Dianne here)?
It was one of a long list of failures by the Election Department that prompted state and federal monitoring of Boston elections, including accusations that the city ignored the rights of voters with limited English skills and allowed poll workers to coerce certain voters in 2003 and 2004. Perhaps the most well-publicized oversight happened in 2006, when dozens of polling places ran out of ballots.
How do you run out of ballots?
With voter turnout expected to reach a record high on Nov. 4, this year's election promises to provide the greatest test of the Boston Election Department in years.
Now go see what this woman's ARROGANT HUBRIS is going to COST YOU, taxpayers!!--more--"
