Cuyahoga County Bored of Elections

I need some help... I am trying to figure out what is a bigger joke - voting in Cuyahoga County or the democrat leaders that have run this area into the ground.

Secretary of State Brunnehilda who now oversees the Cuy. Co. Bored of Elections wants to force the BOE into changing back, to optical scanners and paper ballots. This last minute change goes against all common sense, ignores previous problems we had with optical scanners and is contrary to recommendations from her own consultants.

Brunnehilda, in keeping true to her marionette form of partisanship for the ODP, wants to scrap a system that we have spent tons of money on in training poll workers for and go with an unproven system from her friends at Election Systems & Software.

Here is where we get to the corruption dripping partisanship from Brunnehilda... ES & S has hired Tom Hayes. Hayes was the lapdog for US Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones and the Cuyahoga Election Review Panel (CERP) and worked as a consultant for the BOE during the 2006 election.
Hayes has admitted he came into favor with E.S. & S. management during the time he served on CERP. Hayes is now leading the charge for E.S. & S......

Board of Elections leadership this week was presented with a plan to implement an optical-scan system made by Election Systems & Software by the time of the primary. The presentation was given by Tom Hayes, who represents the Omaha, Neb.-based election equipment maker. Hayes is a former Cuyahoga County administrator and former director of the county's elections board.

Knowing the residents of Cuyahoga County never say anything when they are bent over by the democrats - she wants to give Hayes & E.S. & S. a no-bid contract for the questionable equipment.

BOE President Jeff Hastings (R), noting a study by the Colorado Secretary of State that the equipment Brunnehilda wants to buy is unreliable, threw up a red flag on Brunnehilda's strong arm attempts of forcing the board to give a no-bid contract for defective equipment.....

"This leaves us wide open to a lawsuit, and I would not want to defend it," Hastings said.

"We are being asked by the Secretary of State to swap one defective system for another," Hastings said.

By using Chinese math, smoke from her cauldron and a couple of cracked mirrors, Brunnehilda and the democrats on the BOE are trying to sell us this swamp land of an idea as only costing $3 million. When fact and simple English math shows real monetary cost of this switch at over $30 million....

• Scrapping of a $21 million investment into the electronic touch-screen system we have now - plus monies spent on initial training and extra training for poll workers, etc...

• Spending an initial $3 million to revert back to optical scanners that we have had problems with in previous elections and studies show to be unreliable.

• Plus an estimated $6 million in new training and incidental costs associated with the switch.

RPCC chairmen Rob Frost, who also serves on the BOE, rightfully expressed his concern over Brunnehilda, while ready to throw away an over $21 million investment, not even showing up for the meeting or sending a representative. Brunnehilda is only able to respond with partisan attacks.....

"Where is she today?" questioned Frost, who heads the Cuyahoga County Republican Party.

"What did she have on her schedule?"

Brunner said that she was disappointed by Frost's comments and that they created partisan drama that the county does not need.

"What's disappointing is I took a chance on Rob," she said. "He confirmed his critics' worst fears."

If Frost wanted to make a partisan attack he could have easily responded with, "Secratary of State Brunnehilda was unable to make the meeting because of a flat tire ~ on her BROOM."

Proving the democrats on the Cuyahoga County Bored of Elections haven't a single clue, democrat board member Inajo Davis Chappell takes the cake with this "My head has been in the sand" wisdom --

Chappell said she thought it best to buy new equipment now, rather than risk implementing it before the November presidential election.

"I don't want to be the laughingstock of the nation in March or November," she said.

Someone needs to ring the Retard Alert Bell and tell Chappell - We already are the laughingstock of the nation! We pretty much sealed that award up during the recent '07 November election.

Under the leadership & watchful eye of Brunnehilda & her flunky BOE director - Jane Platten, during this past November election, which had only a measly 15% turnout, they screwed up again.

While Brunnehilda is wrong for placing blame on the machines, wanting to spend millions on a no-bid contract for her lobbyist friend, and wanting to buy a problem plagued optical scanners, who allowed this to happen? It is the same DAMN people crying foul now!

The same people that sat like deaf mutes when ORP chairman Bob Bennett had his ego spat with Brunnehilda and was sent to his room can now go thank him for GIVING Brunnehilda control of the Cuyahoga County Bored of Elections.

Much to the dismay of other RPCC members I was very vocal about the harm Bennett was causing by placing his ego before sound elections and our party and I was right!

Damn it sure is good to be - The King