Comments on: Possible Harrisonburg Registrar Scandal?

By: hburgnews.com » SBE task force to focus on residency requirements

hburgnews.com » SBE task force to focus on residency requirements — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:27:50 +0000

[...] the most recent chapter of the college voting story that gained attention last September: The State Board of Elections is forming a task force to examine the [...]

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By: hburgnews.com » City Registrar in the Spotlight (Again)

hburgnews.com » City Registrar in the Spotlight (Again) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:25:57 +0000

[...] disenfranchised voters’ appeals being denied (including Camron from the Obama HQ); and the strange affair of the registrar’s son’s alleged involvement all the way from [...]

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By: - of cameron! « the state

- of cameron! « the state — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:18:29 +0000

[...] surrounding his and other’s “late” ballots deserved further investigation (as brent finnegan and others at hburg news have also been calling for since they broke the story), “almost a conspiracy [...]

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By: JGFitzgerald

JGFitzgerald — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:29:27 +0000

Seth,

Just a factual note. The officer told only me where the calls came from. I’m the only one I know of who’s publicly disclosed the boy’s name. I’ll criticize any public employee who does a job wrong, but the state and local police in this case have handled the investigation of the phone calls with professionalism, courtesy, and concern for whether I felt comfortable with my family’s safety.

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By: finnegan

finnegan — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:27:04 +0000

Ever heard of the captain going down with the ship? Same concept here. The last minute submission is a way to ensure everybody that he helped register got theirs in on time. The last one off the boat.

Except, in this case, someone else put him back on the sinking ship.

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By: seth

seth — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:22:19 +0000

it doesn’t matter when people register if theyr’e w/in the deadline (dave, i’m surprised you even bring it up. the obvious answer to your question is that the guy wanted to make sure all eligible applications were accepted up to the deadline. obviously they weren’t).

i’m puzzled by yas to why you put the onus for this on the person who was registering. he did his part according to the rules. someone with the power to work outside of those rules apparently kept him from getting registered. that’s who we should be asking questions of.

as to the police and an investigation in which they’d fail to follow protocol as to the handling of evidence and divulging of info related to an ongoing investigation (ie apparently telling someone those calls came from logan’s son) i’d like to think that they’re just incompetent. i don’t think any of us would be surprised if we learned that the politics of many police officers line up with those of our registrar (who i’m going to go ahead and assume is republican, presumptuous though it may be)

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By: Emmy

Emmy — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:03:49 +0000

Peppa, did you expect hard hitting journalism from the DNR? I’m glad your experiences have been good. I bet everyone involved in this wishes that they’d shared your experience.

I do wonder why it matters when the people involved turned their registration’s in. Is it procrastination? Probably, but anyone who works with the public should know that people always wait until the last minute. It really doesn’t change the need to serve them properly assuming they’ve still followed the rules.

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By: finnegan

finnegan — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:03:33 +0000

See my most recent post about this.

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By: Jeremy Aldrich

Jeremy Aldrich — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:01:48 +0000

So how do you suppose that a stack of forms hand-delivered from Harrisonburg, to another place in Harrisonburg, ends up being received by the registrar’s office “for the first time” in an envelope with a Richmond postmark?

When was Mr. Logan in the Harrisonburg registrar’s office to do his voting?

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