Beth White: City-County Employees Should Vote Early
A reader who works at the CC Building sent us the below note they received from Marion County Clerk Beth White.
The e-mail was sent using the government e-mail system. Note that Indianapolis employees have Election Day off work. Why would they need to vote early then? Either BEth White and the Democrats failed miserably at recruiting poll workers and had to use city employees, or Election Day '07 is the day to repay employee patronage. Either way, something stinks in Beth White's office.
From: Administrator, Exchange
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 6:06 PM
To: Administrator, Exchange
Subject: Absentee Voting Information
Attention City-County Employees,
VOTE ABSENTEE EARLY AND AVOID THE RUSH
The Monday before Election Day it is always the busiest for walk-in absentee voting. Please take advantage of your opportunity to vote absentee early. For your convenience the Clerk’s Office in CCB room W122 is open the following hours.
Absentee Voting - Hours
Tuesday, Oct. 9th, through Friday, Nov. 2nd — 8:00AM - 5:00PM
Saturday, Oct. 27th — 10:00AM - 5:00PM
Saturday, Nov. 3rd — 10:00AM - 5:00PM
Sunday, Nov. 4th — 11:00AM - 5:00PM
Monday, Nov. 5th — 8:00AM - 12 noon
Regards,
Elizabeth L. White,
Marion
County
Clerk
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Posted by: Concerned Taxpayer & Citizen | October 25, 2007 at 10:35 AM
i don't think there is scandal here (darn).
lots of CC workers are election day officials out of precinct or, right or wrong, just chose to mosey down the hall or take the elevator to vote absentee rather than go to a polling place.
she's right, the monday before the election is a nightmare. they need to go ahead and vote if they are voting absentee and stay out of the way on monday for the citizens.
i'm voting absentee in the CC building today.
Posted by: anonymous | October 25, 2007 at 10:44 AM
Whats your point here? This is e-mail is all good. This blog needs something to do.
Posted by: arnie | October 25, 2007 at 11:14 AM
The point is if we are generous enough to give government employees the day off on Election Day, we don;t need to be devoting taxpayer resources towards getting them to vote early. Why do they need to vote early if they have the day off?
Posted by: The Polis | October 25, 2007 at 11:39 AM
Read anon 10:44 post. That's why.
Posted by: arnie | October 25, 2007 at 01:30 PM
Maybe the real reason the Clerk would like City/County employees to vote early is so Bart's camp can get a feel for how the votes are going to go in a small statistical population. Soon after that the additional truth bending comes in tow with more (annoying) TV ads and some unknown-until-now deal that has been going on behind the scenes comes out.
Posted by: ElectricFence | October 25, 2007 at 07:44 PM
Beth White may have had ulterior motives for sending her e-mail, but it was not unethical or illegal, and it can be argued that it was based on the assumption -- true for a long time -- that government employees would work the polls on Election Day. The percentage of government employees who work the polls has gone down a lot in recent years because the hours you put into it are awful, the pay is worse and the experience is generally extremely unpleasant. Working for the government pays very poorly as it is, not enough to give up the day off for a completely miserable exprience working at the polls.
Posted by: Pro Cynic | October 25, 2007 at 09:04 PM
voted absentee yesterday. when i went to get my ballot validated, there was a democrat endorsement card on the table where the officials were working. i don't think it was intentional but still.
if you vote absentee in person;
-- MAKE SURE TO SIGN YOUR BALLOT
-- STAY, WATCH, AND ENSURE THAT THE POLL WORKERS SIGN IT
i have worked polls all over the city and -- flame all you want -- but the inspectors in the strong demo precincts review, challenge, and discard absentee ballots that they think aren't voting their way. keep in mind, your name is on the outside of the envelope. ballots get challenged and discarded for missing signatures, signed the wrong way, etc. oddly enough, we had ballots from other precincts show up at ours once. no one seemed to have the wherewithall to get them where they needed to be.
Posted by: anonymous | October 26, 2007 at 07:59 AM
I see Beth White is reporting an unusual number of new voter registrations this year.
I guess the cemeteries are going to be voting heavily in this election in order to make sure bart and julia win.
Posted by: Concerned Taxpayer & Citizen | October 26, 2007 at 08:45 AM
Vote early! Vote often! The democratic motto!
Posted by: Bart must go | October 26, 2007 at 07:21 PM
My daughter signed up on the voter web page to work the polls on election day 2 months ago and has yet to to be contacted by the democrats. If they don't contact her soon she will volunteer as a watcher in Center Township to keep an eye on the bodies coming out of the graves at Crown Hill.
Posted by: flipper | October 28, 2007 at 05:40 PM