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BillMc Explains Reason For Some DQs

As you can imagine, there’s a lot of suspicion at OpenSewer-Dot-Com today re: why so many signatures were thrown out by County Clerk Cliff Hayes’ Election Department & other hired hands. Some on the site — and on the Coeur d’Alene Press Online site — are questioning whether the Idaho State Voter Registration System was working properly. However, to his credit, Bill McCrory provides a simple explanation why many of the signatures might have been rejected. The signers had a Coeur d’Alene mailing address and thought they were eligible to sign the petitions. But they live outside city limits and aren’t eligible. Mr. Bill writes in a comments thread under an understated post about Cliff Hayes final disqualification percentage (there was no follow-up announcing the official results of the recall failure): “It is the elector’s responsibility to acquire that information and to get it clarified if they don’t understand it.” You can read the entire thread here.

Question: Why do you think so many — 23% of the total — signatures were disqualified?

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