One Vote holds fate of Arkansas Green Race – Recount Pending?
From the Arkansas Greens:
More than a week after the election, Elizabeth McCoy, Green Party candidate for Chicot County Assessor trails the Democrat by one vote. Ballots from three precincts may be missing. The County Clerk refuses to open the one missing absentee ballot that has arrived, opting rather to order 8000 new ballots for a runoff. Since there were only two candidates in the race, a runoff may not be an option.
The Chicot County Election Commission will be meeting at 9 AM Thursday to decide on what action to take: declaring a winner, holding a runoff election, or doing a recount, and/or charging the Arkansas Green Party $1100 for the recount.
I don’t know what to say. I’m shocked. The Ark. Greens shouldn’t have to pay for a recount, but if they have to they should, and we should help them pay for it. Why can’t they just count the damn ballots?
No kidding! $1100 to do something they should be doing as a matter of course!? Outrageous!
Even so, I am beginning to think that the rest of the nation needs to go to Arkansas to find out how these folks did so well!
It’s not that much of a secret, Gregg! Arkansas did well because of the same reasons that any political party does well: it organized locally, stayed in touch with Arkansans on local issues, and crafted Green ideas for those issues.
This is one thing the GP needs to get its minds around: running one guy at the top of the ticket – and I think you know which guy I’m speaking of – isn’t going to change anything…unless that movement is organized locally and ready to take advantage.