Breaking: Manlove Says Primary Too Close to General
Elaine Manlove, Delaware’s commissioner of elections, said that screw ups in recent elections arise from the fact that our primary is too close to the general election.
It has been my opinion that we need to move our primary date, and Manlove just made the case for moving it very well on WDEL.
Update: I don’t think dumbass Rick Jensen realizes that he just broke an important news story.
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Is she proposing moving the date? I guess I don’t understand why having the primary in September leads to problems in November.
After the primary the absentee ballots have to be printed and sent out under a very tight dealine to get them to people outside of the country such as people serving inthe armed forces.
Moving the priamry back would remove the time pressure that resulted in misprinted ballots being sent out.
I hope there is enough good sense around to move the primary back to the spring. Dirty Dems and others of their ilk do not support this idea.
Having been a candidate I can tell you door knocking/meeting voters in the unrelenting August temp./humidity is a punishing experience for all concerned.
Not to mention that many, many community groups ‘lay off’ for the summer and a novice candidate would find this out woefully late in a campaign.
I do not give a fig why or when the primary campaign season is changed just make it better for all concerned: Spring.
The current calendar is a flat out Incumbent protecttion scheme.
Diebold machines for the absentee ballots, huumm! Does’nt explain the screwup in the Thornberg race! Does’nt explain why there are different ballots for different RD’s. The only thing that should change are the names on the ballots? And what the hell was she talking about with the bar codes!
She never mentioned the calls she got on election day with screwups with photo ID’s and such either!
Go to paper ballots and get rid of these freaking machines. Who doesn’t know that Diebold machines always screw up!
Primaries in the spring would be a great solution for everyone except members of the ‘generous assembly’ who think they would not have ample time to do the door-to-door thingy while in session. Oh how sad!
Just the idea of having an opponent door knocking while I was in General Assembly, would make me work harder for the people.
Something might get done for a change.
Maryland and Pennsylvania both have spring primaries and have their Presidential Primary the same day as their statewide primary. If it workable in states that large, it is workable in Delaware. It may increase voter participation and avoid some of the problems mentioned.
Maryland and Pennsylvania both have spring primaries and have their Presidential Primary the same day as their statewide primary.
It just makes sense. I can’t think of a single argument in favor of the late primary.
Jenson didn’t have a clue about the seriousness of the story. Manlove appeared very nervous perhaps because prior to the election she said, ‘we don’t have THOSE problems in Delaware”! I believe this story is huge but will probably go nowhere because not nuff people are willing to question the Board of Elections.
I had ask before the election if there were any Diebold machines in Delaware and was told there were none! Only takes a couple in a couple of key districts to change the outcome of the election, especially in top races.
Anyone who questions the “numbers” is automatically labeled a “conspiracy theorist”. I want to know why republicans were counting the votes in Sussex? Where were the democrats? Where are all the votes now? Were the machines under police protection? I believe there were serious problems statewide and not enough election people to recalibrate the machines. What about the woman in Kent complaining of the vote flipping? She didnt address that question either.
But people are willing to question freaking Diebold and not too many people knew that we are DIEBOLD-beholden.
Manlove is suggesting that mebbe she will change service…..yeah.
There were problems noted with Wilmington’s Councilmatic District 1 and she blew them off with some hysteria. When there were numbers that weren’t significant enough to have ‘reversed the election count’ then they were passed off as non-entities and dismissed.
Part of her postion is that (to paraphrase) the margins of victory are gererally large enough that small vote coutning problems don’t matter.
Which is a pretty fucked up way to look at it.
Dumbass Rick Jensen…just happens to lean a little to the right. The dumbass.
Winner of the Philadelphia Region Society of Professional Journalists award for Best Talk Show, Delaware Today Magazine Readers’ Poll for Best Talk Show, Winner for Best Commentary/Editorial by the Associated Press and the Philadelphia Region Society of Professional Journalists and a bunch of the same awards from the Delaware Press Association. Rick Jensen helped veterans associations bring a veterans home to Delaware.
Man, if you buy all that backscratching bullshit to mean Jensen is not a dumbass, you really are stupid.
Jenson leans “a little to the right”?He has fallen off the right side of the chart. GWar Bush is a liberal says Jenson! You wonder who monitors his dumbass right wing show and have the audacity to give him an award for anything, unless those so called “professional organizations” are as right wing as he is.
John Watson also has received those awards so why don’t they call the award “the best of local right wing media”.