Comments on: Council: Keep Pierce County polling places open in 2010

By: papasan

papasan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:56:05 +0000

Will the last person to run screaming from Pierce County, please bring the flag?

By: SPanaway1

SPanaway1 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:00:11 +0000

At this last genereal election that’s about $8.50 per poll vote ($150,000/17,548). We were worried about $0.61 a stamp for an absentee(157,539)? The council has a budget crisis and they make a stupid decision with the elections budget? Seems to me that this decision was made when they found out their questionably appointed Auditor pick was not elected by the people. SO they are demanding the new Auditor do the same job WITHOUT the money. This is a brutally political and devisive council and the voters need to remember remember how this council has voted when they come up for election.

By: mchawkeye

mchawkeye — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:27:42 +0000

It seems as though the council wants to eliminate the needed public services and staff to promote their own agenda. The fact is the County budget is in dire straits. Closing the polls SAVES money without losing the right to vote! This shouldn’t be a difficult decision, it is no surprise the council kept the budget out of sight until the last moment. If they used this same logic throughout the entire budget they will probably replace the computers with adding machines, and the phones with drums. One other question. Is Dick Cheney advising this Bush too?

By: pcinsider1

pcinsider1 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:32:36 +0000

Great! Once again Pierce is the only county in Washington that has to run TWO elections. Unfortunately the $150,000.00 unfunderd cost will come out of the staff in the Auditor’s office, so next time you take a number to purchase your license tabs or apply for your passport or marriage license, you can thank the Co Council for the wait.

By: Exidor

Exidor — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:25:30 +0000

I have to agree. I like the poll locations, but it should be up to the people flipping the bill. Closing the polls should be added to what ever the next voting cycle will be. DONT CREATE A SPECIAL ELECTION FOR IT! While you’re at it, add recall Washam to the ballot.

By: headedsouth

headedsouth — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:02:55 +0000

Bush – what right of the minority are you protecting? There is no rights being taken away. Poll voters can still vote, just not the way they want. So now jobs are lost so poll votes can rally around a little table at some church or school instead of voting like the majority of people in Pierce County and the State.

Newswatch and Spartcus – why would you waste money putting this issue to a vote when you know it will lose since only a small amount of the population votes at the polls. I just took a poll at work and I am sorry 25 out of 25 people said down with the Poll Voters. Move on.

By: Spartacus

Spartacus — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:24:24 +0000

This is why RCV is a failure. It gave us contentious Dale Washam, and now a clueless auditor. Had she familiarized herself with how the county, and country for that matter, runs she’d not be making such uninformed comments.

Newswatch is right! Let’s put this to a vote of the people, without RCV!

By: fatuous

fatuous — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:19:25 +0000

Right on newswatch, let’s put it to the vote.

“And she expressed surprise the council can ‘prescribe how an executive office directly elected by the people will run elections.’”

She can flip them the bird. What can they do to her, besides cutting funding to the assessor’s office?

By: newswatch

newswatch — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:40:42 +0000

Closing the polls should be put to a vote of the people.

By: fantum

fantum — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:50:02 +0000

“And she expressed surprise the council can ‘prescribe how an executive office directly elected by the people will run elections.’”

All Hail Julie!!! Just look at it this way Julie. The president can start a war but the congress has to fund it…we call it checks and balances.