Comments on: Two Candidates Could Get To ‘Judge’ Upcoming Century Special Election

By: Citizen

Citizen — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 23:09:37 +0000

What is wrong with you people? Since 2007 David Stafford Supervisor of Elections has been in charge of running the elections for Town of Century and he and his staff have done an outstanding job and now all of a sudden someone thinks things should be done differently. Before 2007 it was always complaints of things not being done right they did not want the Mayor, Council, City Hall or maybe i should say the clerk handling the elections. Please let Mr. Stafford and his staff do the election and Mayor, Council and Clerk stay out of it

By: Oversight

Oversight — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 21:09:33 +0000

The rule should always be that one must recuse him or herself when there is a conflict of interest. Certainly, being the judge of the election where one is running opposed would meet that standard. But it is Century, what could possibly go wrong? LOL!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 19:09:19 +0000

Judging your own election. What could possibly go wrong?

By: CJ Lewis

CJ Lewis — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 13:42:29 +0000

Here’s how they do it in Pensacola. The city has an interlocal agreement with the Supervisor that conducts the elections to include empanelling the canvasing board that provides the certified election results to the City Clerk. The City Council then meets to “declare” the election results. It’s a ministerial duty much as the Vice President declares the results of the Electoral College. I suspect that a court might find that the word “judge” as used in the Century Charter means the same as “declare” in the Pensacola Charter. This isn’t first election held in Century or before that when it was South Flomaton. What happened last time? The obvious emerging solution may be for the Supervisor of Elections to terminate the Interlocal Agreement and tell Century to run its own elections.

By: SW

SW — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 08:32:20 +0000

Century just can’t help but get in its own way.