A mess in Detroit brings a voice to frustration:
When the government cannot guarantee something as elemental as a person’s vote, that government becomes illegitimate. That’s where we’re at in Detroit after the spectacle perpetrated by the office of the City Clerk Janice Winfrey and by extension the Board of Elections. A banana republic.
Missing hash marks, tardy absentee ballots, candidates left off the ballots. 108 percent of the adult population registered to vote and the mysterious retirement of the director of the board of elections.
The aftermath of the Detroit primary this month devolved into such a sitcom that the write-in ballots had to be sent to Lansing for a proper counting, and now a judge up there is thinking of kicking the whole thing to the feds. Sheesh.
It’s enough to launch a thousand conspiracy theories – see Tom Barrow. And conspiracy theories – like military juntas – do little to encourage democracy.