k664's blog: "elections"

a slight mix up on the names of judges on the ballots this years elections, im gonna post the article and the link to the site where it can be found ---------------------------------------------------- Ballots are being reprinted due to error By Terry Camp IOSCO COUNTY (WJRT) -- (10/08/08)--It has nothing to do with hanging chads, but there is a bit of a ballot controversy in one Mid-Michigan county. Ballots are being reprinted in Iosco County because of an error. The 23rd circuit court judge race has already featured a State Supreme Court ruling, and now you can throw in a printing error into all the intrigue. "It's just another strange twist in a very strange case," said Christopher Martin. Strange indeed. On the ballot in Iosco County, there are the names of the two incumbent 23rd circuit court judges. One isn Judge Ronald Bergeron; the other is Judge William Myles. But below Myles, it says judge of the court of appeals. That's a mistake discovered by a supporter of write-in candidate Martin. "As soon as I found out about this, I told the clerk," he said. Huebel called the Bureau of Elections. "The Bureau of Elections said (we needed to) reprint," she said. "I did talk to the judges involved to see if this wasn't an issue for them, to see if we could save the county money without reprinting." Bergeron and Myles wanted the ballots reprinted. So where does Martin fit into all of this? He filed to run for that judge seat. State election officials took him off the ballot after he failed to turn in enough signatures. Martin sued, saying the state gave him bad advice. He won, but the State Supreme Court overturned that decision. Now he is a write-in candidate. "I don't think this issue helped me at all," he said. "I think it is going to cause some confusion." The mistake will cost Iosco County taxpayers about $7,500. One-thousand absentee ballots have been sent out already, and new ones will have to be sent out. But how did the mistake happen? "As far as I'm concerned, it was just human error, honestly," Huebel said. Residents in Alcona, Arenac and Oscoda counties also vote in this judicial race, but there are no mistakes on those ballots. Click here for more Mid-Michigan and Flint news ------------------------------------------------ now the link to the site and news channel it if from http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=news/local&id=6439528 and also have heard that the governor gramholm might be part of one of the cabinets for the prez. if that were to happen this country is in more world of hurt then expected. i smell or sense a big screw up in this election like there was in the last election.