Comments on: Council Primaries Set Despite Duplicate Sigs

By: Alice Ralph

Alice Ralph — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:55:29 +0000

Ann Arbor voters also vote in one of four county districts for their representatives on the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners. Upon my suggestion, City Clerk Jackie Beaudry worked with County Clerk Larry Kestenbaum to get those candidates listed with other city candidates on the City Clerk’s elections web page within 24 hours. Kudos for their efforts. (I am one of those county commissioner candidates, for District 11.)
A side note is that in District 11 (where I am running) there are 127 registered voters in Ann Arbor Township who will see the District 11 county commissioner seat on their ballots. The Township charges a fee per transmission of absentee voter names. In contrast, fees for access to public information were dropped by Scio Township in recent years, indicating steps in a good direction, similar to the Washtenaw and Ann Arbor policies.
Returning to voting patterns, just because a ballot is returned does not mean that votes were cast in all contests. The difference between the number of ballots cast and the number of votes for a particular office can be as high 40% fewer, e.g., for county commissioners which are “down ballot”. All eleven commissioner seats are up this year and every even year. There will be no incumbent on the August 3 primary ballot for the District 11 seat.
http://www.AliceRalphforWashtenaw.com

By: Rod Johnson

Rod Johnson — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:30:00 +0000

Why not ask her instead of grandstanding here?

By: Mark Koroi

Mark Koroi — Thu, 13 May 2010 01:59:37 +0000

Does Lou Glorie have a shot at unseating Hohnke?

Who is supporting her? Her campaign website is only one page and discloses no endorsements.

What does she stand for?

By: Vivienne Armentrout

Vivienne Armentrout — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:38:08 +0000

In past elections, I have found Jackie Beaudry and her staff to be extremely “customer-friendly” in delivering the AV information to campaigns. The county clerk’s office has also been very helpful in providing voter lists that describe voting history. One can request lists of those who voted in a particular election, for example, and that Excel sheet will also indicate which voters are on the permanent AV list (to receive applications) and which actually voted absentee in that election. Both offices have been very flexible about sending these lists by email.

Note that in most city elections the absentee ballots have been counted at the precincts. So ballots were delivered to the precincts on election day and run through the voting tabulators through the day or at the end of it. Thus, we have very little history of the difference between absentee voters and at precinct voters in terms of voting preferences.