Delay recommended for elections in New Orleans?
Posted on 11/14/2005 3:13:51 PM PST by abb
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The state's elections commissioner is recommending that the February election scheduled for New Orleans be delayed because of the complications caused by Hurricane Katrina, which displaced thousands of the city's residents and demolished polling places.
"It would be too problematic. We're not ready," Commissioner of Elections Angie LaPlace told a House committee on Monday.
LaPlace said she will recommend to Secretary of State Al Ater, Louisiana's top elections official, that the Feb. 4 mayoral primary scheduled for New Orleans, which includes city council races and referendums, be postponed. If Ater agrees with LaPlace's assessment, the governor would have to determine whether to delay the election.
Though Ater won't decide whether the New Orleans election should be postponed until later this month, the secretary of state generally follows the recommendation of the elections commissioner, according to Ater's spokeswoman, Jennifer Marusak.
An election held over the weekend in Vermilion Parish — which was ravaged by Hurricane Rita — showed the state likely wouldn't be able to properly stage an election in New Orleans as scheduled, LaPlace said.
The election in Vermilion Parish involved several weeks of preparing makeshift precincts, enlisting the National Guard to help with security of voting machines and setting up generators and portable toilets, she said.
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They have no problem at all organizing a citywide drunk (Mardi Gras) for February, but elections are just too problematic.
Delay recommended for elections in New Orleans?
Go, Hammer, go, Hammer, go!
If they could hold the NYC election right after 9/11, New Orleans can hold their election on time.
They fear they don't have their welfare class to re-elect the hacks.
Did they call for the delay of tax collections ?
They cant have an election in New Orleans yet. Half the registered voters washed out of their graves and the other half hauled ass to Dallas and are receiving their welfare checks there.
I am not certain of the authority to do this...I am a Orleans Parish resident living in Houston and I intend to vote...if a bunch of my fellow citizens cannot figure out how to do that, so be it...but I know of no authority to postpone the election given the time between the event (Hurricane Katrina) and the scheduled date of the election. Any elected official that recommends this course of action and tries to implement it should be impeached.
LOL.....that's what I thought, too.
Since their voter base have relocated to Texas and other states, they figure fraud maybe the only way for them to win. Fraud for the 'Rats is just as common as, blowing your nose.
all you have to do is swipe your debit card...
Wonder if they'll find the bus drivers to schlep the dims to the polls.
Count on it
"It would be too problematic. We're not ready," Commissioner of Elections Angie LaPlace told a House committee on Monday
What they REALLY mean:
"It would be too problematic. We're not .....
done figuring out how to rig it so that we can remain in office and get away with it"
It is being bandied about in the special session of the congress for the parishes who were directly affected by both Katrina and Rita.
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