Today, the McPherson County Commission mirrored what Lawrence County did, and unanimously sent the election conspiracists packing when presented with a petition that would have required them to violate federal laws designed to protect the rights of the disabled to vote:
The petition also sought to ban ExpressVote machines, which are used by voters who require assistance in filling out their ballots.
Use of those machines is required by federal law as part of the Help Americans Vote Act passed by Congress in 2002. Voters insert their ballot into the machine and use it to mark their selections. The machine then fills in the appropriate bubbles on the ballot. No vote information is saved on the machine.
Howard said commissioners rejected the petition because they can’t legally enforce an ordinance that conflicts with state and federal law.
I’m sure we’re going to continue to read stories like this for quite some time to come.
This is exactly what Sara Frankenstein tried to warn them about — and they attacked her for it. She was just trying to help them from this embarrassment!
Rhoden did the same for them in Meade County. Folks from the community try to save them from embarrassment and they lash out at them, hurting only themselves in the process. SDCanvassing has very quickly become a laughingstock in SD politic.
Let’s just hope this bunch of alt-right outcasts don’t attach themselves to any issues that actually need to be fixed, or we’ll never see the day.
Rick Weible and Jessica Pollema have no idea what they are doing. Sad.
These petition circulators are playing with matches not knowing how fire works. They’re definitely incompetents BUT they also seem totally fine with the reality that if one of their matches lights it’s going to burn a county to the ground.
It’s called being self Righteous.
I’m so McHappy!
Gregory county is up next. Commissioners meet tomorrow for the same decision. Unfortunately, they have a few whack-a-doodle Commissioners that are conspiracy theorists, and that is being polite…
Why do you question thr people and their ability to maintain their authority over the state government? If the peoppe want hand counts, they got the right as per the constitution, which gives to them full police powers of the state, to place on ballot any topic or question they so desire. The legislate l. Or in thus case, county commissions do not have more power. I am just curious if you all call yourselves conservatives, assuming this blog is a conservative blog, that you would support the peoples right to control the government itself. I would careful where attack another member if our population. It does. It look great on your part. Makes you look like a Democrat. Juat my two cents.
We’re not attacking per se, just pointing out that their supposed voting machine fraud has never been proven, and if county commissioners remove said machines the county will be sued and the county will lose.
Guess who foots the bill then for this boondoggle? Taxpayers. Guess who is opposed (or should be) to wasting unnecessary taxpayer funds? Conservatives. So it is far from anti-conservative to point out that stupid ideas will cost a lot of money, and therefore it is also not anti-conservative to point out that the stupid ideas are being proposed by fairly stupid people.
Also learn how to spell or use a keyboard.
The public has the right to petition. But they can’t force the government to do something illegal. Not a hard concept to grasp. But apparently it’s more difficult than it should be.
That made absolutely no sense whatsoever and you ending with “Makes you look like a Democrat” is just nuts.
Get over yourself, do some reflection, educate yourself. Stop acting like an incompetent child with no emotional intelligence.
That poor Scott fellow reminds me that we should focus on paying good teachers more, so we can retain quality teachers. Hopefully then we can avoid silly basic 9th grade Civics mistakes. Full police powers??? Man… we are in a bad spot.
The one county that did hand counts needed machines to catch their error.
*ding ding ding * best comment on this topic. you win.