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CAMERON COUNTY ELECTIONS: TRAGEDY BY THE NUMBERS
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />Now that most elections are over for this year (except for the recounts), it's time to look at some of the interesting numbers that have emerged from the fiasco called elections in Cameron County.<br />Remember the 608 "provisional votes" that were still left over after the November 6 results?<br />Well, it appears that aside form those voters who showed up at the wrong precinct or were without identification, etc., there were only about 44 military votes that came in after that Tuesday included in that number. There were some 145 military mail-in votes that came in adn were counted November 6.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGIGmChhAAHNmDRW2Y50mN7hpeXOib9diZeVS68HPpvLHtoN-JZVHpFH5JFLuNo5n10JSqZvr18V1mI1Qy9Uh-vq8ZCe3f6YWsZYRyeIX-Fei9hX3EmQBUu6XZw4C8zJphxuQtEUiWVrg/s1600/DeniedIVoted2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGIGmChhAAHNmDRW2Y50mN7hpeXOib9diZeVS68HPpvLHtoN-JZVHpFH5JFLuNo5n10JSqZvr18V1mI1Qy9Uh-vq8ZCe3f6YWsZYRyeIX-Fei9hX3EmQBUu6XZw4C8zJphxuQtEUiWVrg/s400/DeniedIVoted2.jpg" width="400" /></a>Care to guess how many of those 608 provisional votes were accepted by the Cameron County Ballot and Resolution Board?<br />Would you believe 56?<br />That's right, 56.<br />In fact, there were more votes in the "black bag" that were included in the votes after they were somehow overlooked in the regular election-day count. You remember. There were the votes that were left in envelopes, never made it into the ballot boxes, or for some unfathomable reason, were left our of the count on election day. Cameron County Elections Administrator said there was some human error involved, but said they made a negligible difference in the voting.<br />Yet, he has never told any broadcaster or print media representative that there were 87 such votes that accumulated as a result of "human error," enough to overturn any of the three races in contention across the county, never mind the Brownsville Independent School District. These should have been conted on election day.<br />And out of those 608 provisional votes, guess how many were cast in the BISD election?<br />Would you believe 30 in toto?<br />Now, these may not seem like much, but if you were a candidate whose win or loss was hinging on a handful of votes, the difference would have been immense.<br />Someone commented that the tragedy of all this was that the 552 voters who showed up at the polls and voted provisionally only to have their votes rejected might well have voted if they had renewed their registration or had bothered to register at all.<br />As it is, now we know that one vote can make a difference. It's just too bad that those 552 voters who were told to go vote and couldn't might well have made a difference but through apathy or ignorance didn't bother to qualify for their choice to be taken into consideration.<br />And we're all the poorer for that.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-8029260495332297477?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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