Elections Chief Sancho gets vote of confidence

Elections Chief (Sancho) gets vote of confidence
March 15, 2006
Sancho gets OK to seek a deal
Elections chief gets vote of confidence
By Julian Pecquet
DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER


He came in prepared for a grilling, but embattled Elections Supervisor Ion Sancho left the Leon County Commission chambers Tuesday with a unanimous vote of confidence.

The commissioners gave Sancho a green light to pursue a deal with a Louisville, Ky.-based company to provide voting equipment for disabled people. The company, IVS, was the last option on the table that would make Leon County compliant with federal elections law come the September primaries.


The motion drew sighs of relief from more than a dozen Sancho supporters who had come to the workshop worried that Sancho would come under attack from certain commissioners for his failure to sign a contract for voting equipment for the disabled, a delay that has already cost the county about $500,000 in withheld state funding.

Be sure to go to the website to read rest of article:
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2...


Also, don't miss viewing the video and also listen to the audio also posted at the same
website.

There are two media items at the Tallahassee papers website.

A short video which I highly recommend:

Leon County Commission meeting on compliance federal election laws

http://www.tallahassee.com/assets/wmv/CD21997314.WMV

An audio taped interview of Ion Sancho responding to Tallahassee newspaper about the widespread problems with voting machines, that there is no perfect voting machine solution, the national issue, etc. Ion describes his struggle to find a suitable voting system to purchase to count Leon County votes. He discusses that during this search, he found many problems with many machines! Leon gets to the heart of the problem that all states are facing.

The Audio is essential listening, would be great if we could get the transcripts:


Ion Sancho's complete editorial board interview

http://www.tallahassee.com/assets/wma/CD21965314.WMA