Sarasota Co.: Kathy Dent does it AGAIN

Another Sarasota County election blunder

By Doug Sword & Todd Ruger

SARASOTA COUNTY - Erroneous absentee ballots have been sent to 69 North Port voters, a gaffe that came to light 13 days before Supervisor of Elections Kathy Dent stands for re-election.
Dent’s opponents cast the mistake as the latest example of the county’s election problems, the most notable one being the controversial congressional election in 2006 that made Sarasota County a national symbol for problems with touchscreen voting systems.

While the problem became public Wednesday, Dent said she and her staff discovered 11 days earlier that the race for State Senate District 23 between Morgan Bentley and Nancy Detert had been left off some absentee ballots. Dent points out that she told the three-member board that will oversee this election about the problem on Oct. 14.

Two of the board members, Judge Kimberly Bonner and Sarasota Clerk Billy Robinson, said Dent told them only of a computer error and not that the error led to erroneous ballots being sent to voters.

Dent’s opponents, Democrat Barry Sullivan and Levko Klos, a registered Republican who is running without a party affiliation, both described the error as the latest in a series made by Dent. Klos criticized Dent for downplaying past mistakes and said time would likely reveal that more than 69 voters were impacted.

More: http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20081022/BREAKING/810220284/2055/NEWS?Title=Another_Sarasota_County_election_blunder

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Sarasota County DU'ers: Make sure you vote for BARRY SULLIVAN for Supervisor of Elections between now and November 4th!

http://barrysullivan4soe.com/

chew nails!! This is an outrage, and another example of what ALWAYS happens here!!

Any of you from District 13... we need to UNITE!! Please help us out!

...and always makes sure they win elections.