Friday, November 05, 2010

Connecticut's Gubernatorial Race

My dear word, this gubernatorial race in Connecticut is so out of hand. By around 6:30 p.m. yesterday, Thursday, November 4, 2010 it was announced that a registrar of voters was upset, threw his hands in the air and said he was done. Hours later they found a bag of approximately 350 – 400 ballots that were unaccounted for. All day long the Secretary of State, Susan Bysiewicz, had been trying to hold a press conference hoping to announce whom our governor was. Each time she went to hold that conference something happened and she postponed it a few hours. As of 7:30 p.m. we still hadn't known what was going on.

The Secretary of State needs to take responsibility for this, last night she was holding a press conference and appeared very disturbed that people were blaming her for this whole problem. Well Susan, you must take responsibility because you oversee the elections, even if you had nothing to do with Bridgeport not ordering enough ballots. That’s why we’re paying you the big bucks! I have to give her credit though, I’m a firm believer in "stuff happens", we all make mistakes. However, It’s not the mistake sometimes that’s the problem, it’s how you make it right that counts. Susan Bsyiewicz is trying to make this right. She is relentless in trying to make this right.

I hope this isn’t over once they announce it’s over. Maybe we better take a good look at what’s going on with how accurate our voting process is. This isn’t the first time this has happened. Remember Florida in the presidential election? Maybe it’s time to do an audit, just pick a few states to see if the numbers actually balance with the number of voters. I think Connecticut better take a real good look at what’s going on because if my vote never got counted, I want to know about it.

2 comments:

cecily said...

The cracks in democracy hey! We had a curly election a few months back... took 17 days after voting before we knew who our Prime Minister was. And there were inconsistencies in counting, with boxes of votes being unaccounted for here and there and therefore not included. So frustrating!

Peggy said...

Sandy

So nice to see you blogging again
Love reading your posts.
In Chicago, we have a creative way of counting and adding votes. We have a lot of write ins taken from the nearest cemetary.
Have a nice weekend my friend!