MD election followup

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Jim O'Donnell" <provost () georgetown edu>
Date: September 20, 2006 12:35:01 AM JST
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: MD election followup

From a local newspaper:

Montgomery County Board of Elections officials told the County Council
on Monday morning that the voting problems from last week's 's primary
election were caused by a combination of human error and delays in
getting information and equipment from the state board of elections.

Board President Nancy H. Dacek (R) and director Margaret Jurgensen
appeared before the council's Management and Fiscal Policy committee.
Both administrators assured the council that the errors should not
affect the general election in November.

In the meantime, the board has hired a Houston-based firm to conduct
an independent review of the election management process. Plans are
also under way to retrain chief judges on the electronic poll book
equipment and to establish an emergency management plan that includes
better communications between the county's 238 precincts and the
elections board, the elections officials told the committee.

Monday's meeting lasted about 30 minutes and did not include comments
from council members because Dacek and Jurgensen had to return to the
elections board headquarters to begin counting provisional ballots at
10 a.m.

Members of the council, as wells as County Executive Douglas M. Duncan
(D), have called for Dacek and Jurgensen to resign. Thus far, Dacek
has refused, and last week the board released a statement supporting
Jurgensen.

The MFP committee will meet with the board again on Oct. 5.


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