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kathy dent - AWOL

So it seems that Ms. Kathy Dent isn’t even showing up for the audit of her failed voting machines. She says she trusts her competent staff to take care of it for her. Jenny Nash, that lovely spokeswoman again, (more…)

to sum up…

the reports tendered at the district 13 vote irregularity hearings overwhelmingly described recurring problems voting for christine jennings. there were reports from registered republicans who were unable to vote for CJ the first time, there were reports from poll workers, there were reports from a sarasota city commissioner, ken shelin, all of whom were very [...]

voting machines vs ATMs - Vote Irregularity Hearings

it’s 2 am and i’m smoking another cigarette and gathering up the gumption to finish a writing project, the taxes are still undone, and i just spent $200 buying dinner for the leading lights of the election reform movement gathered here this week in sarasota - (more…)

Democracy is not a dinner party, it is scrubbing the floors after everybody has gone home.

Disclaimer: I’m not a journalist - and this is not a well researched piece of writing. I did not take notes. Names will likely be mispelled or misapplied and the order of events may be jumbled… so, onwards -

The following short quote is from the Sarasota Herald Tribune Nov 13, 2006 (i have been following [...]

kathy dent - sarasota elections

Update: Despite continued and strident calls for a revote, the Sarasota Elections Commission, with Paul Mercier heading it up, certified what is probably the most clearly defective election in florida.
This just in from a correspondent in Sarasota Florida - Steve Runfeldt -
Hi,
The following photos document incidents in Sarasota County at precincts [...]