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MikeK: Where Was Cliff Hayes?

MikeK: Two years ago I was in what has become the most vetted election ever in Kootenai County (maybe anywhere in Idaho), complete with “private investigators” misrepresenting themselves to turn up any potential problem to try and overturn the outcome. The number of human mistakes found after that exhaustive process was far less than we’ve found in this election. The county clerk should have some explaining to do, especially in light of the fact that this is the second significant problem in his short tenure managing elections (the first being the wording of the school bond election ballots). But last night he was AWOL at our meeting. That’s sad and disappointing.

Question: Can the vast majority of us agree now that some innocent mistakes are made. In. Every. Election?

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog