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WHAT NEXT? CURBSIDE SERVICE FOR THE VELAS?
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<span style="font-weight: normal; ">By </span><b>Juan Montoya</b><div style="font-weight: normal; ">Did you hear about the 10 mail-in ballots that were going to be disqualified by the Cameron County Elections Administrator's Office?</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">Apparently, the voters, for a variety of causes, had not submitted legal ballots, including not signing their names before they before they sealed them and mailed them in. So, in accordance to the rules, the clerks over at Roger Ortiz's office reportedly mailed them a letter informing them that their vote was invalid and warning them that they must either vote in their respective precincts on Tuesday or lose their vote.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">There was only one catch, however. The mail-in ballots are opened on Monday, and the letters cannot possibly reach the voters by the next day seeing how our mail in <span style="font-size: 100%; ">Brow</span></div><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 230px; height: 172px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg51qoLLXEEh_pb0xmzL2afSROOR1Ytq0EprEYLIToyHZxiA4pn1XyMPR8CVKjirJ0-x2NHw7o8EmgXQmxD462T1oovHtvs3FJNnWjT1a2eQYXK05TgcZGJk4D7-Sl_x9j-07OaWxlaU_c/s320/velablanca.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5749204270180775394" /><div style="font-weight: normal; ">nsville is delivered to McAllen and then sent back for distribution. Additionally, Monday was Memorial day, so no mail could possibly go out that day in time to reach the voters.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">Ah, but name recognition and political cachet has its perks.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">Apparently, the whole roomful of clerks and poll watchers recognized a name on one of the ballots and gave the alarm. The ballot belonged to former City of Brownsville Mayor Blanca Vela, whose son Filemon Jr. was a candidate for the Dist. 34 congressional race. The place, said a witness, was in an uproar.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">Now, no one said anything about the other nine people who lost their votes, but the Vela ballot apparently inspired someone in the office to call herhonner and told her to vote in her precinct the next day. And so, thanks to the timely interference by Cameron County personnel, Filemon Jr. got one more vote.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">An oversight on Blanca's part? Or perhaps she is due for some assisted voting at this stage in her political career.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">Observers who were at the count as poll watchers say that many of those who were there as poll watches were there for the first time and even after they had the cursory introduction from the elections staff, many were utterly at a loss to discern legal from illegal proceedings.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">"It was like the blind leading the blind," asserted May Helen Flores, who was there on behalf of a candidate as well as for her watchdog group Citizens Against Voter Abuse. 'Many of them didn't even know how to challenge votes."</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">Flores, who had taken the time to bone up on the poll watcher manual posted on line by the Texas Secretary of State said it has taken her a few elections to get acquainted with the intricacies of the system said that unless the candidates assign people who are versed in the system, it really doesn't matter if they assign watchers who don;t know what is transpiring before them.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">"There is a great deal of ineptness on the part of the elections staff and by the watchers assigned to the count," she said. "Most people just don't know what is going on around them."</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">However, she said she was present when Vela's mail-in ballot was discussed among the staff and watchers at the mail-in count.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">"If someone called Blanca, they should have also made the effort to reach the other nine people whose votes were rejected," she said.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-7062521784181198934?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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