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Where’s my race’s results??
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Okay. So I wrote my name in on the last screen of my electronic voting ballot. The only item on that screen was “County Central Committee – Write In.” So…I wrote in my name. Just to see what would happen.
But now, when I go to this page, I can’t find that race. Treat me like I’m stupid. Where would I find the results in that race? I tried the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party website. Nothing.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:32 pm May 2nd, 2006 in Politics | 13 Comments
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I received the following letter this afternoon:
Dear friends and supporters of the Committee to Elect Jennifer Martinez:
Today is obviously a bit of a bittersweet day for those of us who initially worked on the campaign to get my name on the ballot as a Democratic candidate. It is also a tough day for me because I have to inform those of you who are not already aware of the fact that we were
not able to file petitions as an independent candidate in this election.
Although we did obtain several thousand signatures, with a lot of help from many different volunteers, we determined last week that we would not be successful in our goal before the May 1st deadline. There was just not enough time, and the effort required was too much of a strain on myself, and more importantly, on my family.
However, I wanted to sincerely thank those of you who put so much time and effort into helping me in every stage of this campaign. In particular, I want to thank Dave for his amazing efforts on the webpage and on all of our flyers. Thank you to every one who donated to our
campaign, and who volunteered to get signatures.
Finally, I am so grateful to Brenda for taking on this experience with me, and helping
me put together what was obviously a threatening enough campaign to place us on the radar screen of others who did not want to see us on the ballot.
Now I can only encourage everyone to vote for people they truly believe in, and to not let the political elite run this country forever. It will hopefully start today with at least a few deserving candidates making it on to the ballot for the general election.
Good luck to candidates like Joe Young and others who are running for the right reasons!
Thank you again for your support!
Jennifer Martinez
I did indeed vote for Joe Young in this race, and a lot had to do with the civility and levelheadedness with which he approached Jennifer’s situation. It also had to do with the enormous number of yard signs he had all around my area!
Good luck, Joe.
Here’s the post that got it all started.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:23 pm May 2nd, 2006 in Politics | 2 Comments
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Sources for live election results; one Cuyahoga precinct open until 9:30pm
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MAJOR hattip to Lisa Renee via Lefty Blogs for this link to live results.
Live results from the Plain Dealer and Cleveland.com here.
One precinct to remain open until 9:30pm in Cuyahoga, under court order. OPEN says its Garden Valley and that the Secretary of State’s office says no results will be reported before 9:30pm.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:20 pm May 2nd, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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Where’s my race’s results??
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Okay. So I wrote my name in on the last screen of my electronic voting ballot. The only item on that screen was “County Central Committee – Write In.” So…I wrote in my name. Just to see what would happen.
But now, when I go to this page, I can’t find that race. Treat me like I’m stupid. Where would I find the results in that race? I tried the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party website. Nothing.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:32 pm May 2nd, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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Does no one love Zach Reed?
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Because if someone, anyone out there does, or once did, why aren’t you helping him? And by helping I mean, slap him upside the head, tell him to quit work, get into treatment and figure out what the hell is causing him to play fast and loose with voters’ support of him and Cleveland’s need for respectful councilpersons. Not to mention his body and his life and his career.
I don’t know him (pictured here) and I don’t know municipal employee law. I know from this that at least as of last fall, he was Chairman of the Public Safety Committee. How ironic is that?
But I know that this man isn’t heading toward anything good.
Do you really want to see him written up in Regina Brett’s column as another multiple DUI offender who got away with murder?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:50 pm May 2nd, 2006 in Politics | 3 Comments
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I received the following letter this afternoon:
Dear friends and supporters of the Committee to Elect Jennifer Martinez:
Today is obviously a bit of a bittersweet day for those of us who initially worked on the campaign to get my name on the ballot as a Democratic candidate. It is also a tough day for me because I have to inform those of you who are not already aware of the fact that we were
not able to file petitions as an independent candidate in this election.
Although we did obtain several thousand signatures, with a lot of help from many different volunteers, we determined last week that we would not be successful in our goal before the May 1st deadline. There was just not enough time, and the effort required was too much of a strain on myself, and more importantly, on my family.
However, I wanted to sincerely thank those of you who put so much time and effort into helping me in every stage of this campaign. In particular, I want to thank Dave for his amazing efforts on the webpage and on all of our flyers. Thank you to every one who donated to our
campaign, and who volunteered to get signatures.
Finally, I am so grateful to Brenda for taking on this experience with me, and helping
me put together what was obviously a threatening enough campaign to place us on the radar screen of others who did not want to see us on the ballot.
Now I can only encourage everyone to vote for people they truly believe in, and to not let the political elite run this country forever. It will hopefully start today with at least a few deserving candidates making it on to the ballot for the general election.
Good luck to candidates like Joe Young and others who are running for the right reasons!
Thank you again for your support!
Jennifer Martinez
I did indeed vote for Joe Young in this race, and a lot had to do with the civility and levelheadedness with which he approached Jennifer’s situation. It also had to do with the enormous number of yard signs he had all around my area!
Good luck, Joe.
Here’s the post that got it all started.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:23 pm May 2nd, 2006 in Politics | 2 Comments
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Sources for live election results; one Cuyahoga precinct open until 9:30pm
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MAJOR hattip to Lisa Renee via Lefty Blogs for this link to live results.
Live results from the Plain Dealer and Cleveland.com here.
One precinct to remain open until 9:30pm in Cuyahoga, under court order. OPEN says its Garden Valley and that the Secretary of State’s office says no results will be reported before 9:30pm.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:20 pm May 2nd, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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Here’s the scoop on lovely, suburban, 9K population Pepper Pike, 15 miles east of Cleveland, in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The city is run by Mayor Bruce Akers – an experienced, well-known Republican and typically goes GOP, but the older population that typified the town for so long is moving on, in all the ways that means. Younger families are coming in because of the public schools (just ranked #143 by Newsweek out of 1000 in the country). However, the county is overwhelmingly Dem.
My precinct was very quiet and had a lot of workers – four at least for every precinct.
The biggest news: Two polling places in PP are completely shutdown. The County BOE worker at my precinct told me that. She said that she’d expected that maybe there’d be some folks wandering over and asking for provisionals but none have asked for any yet. She didn’t say which two and I’m not familiar with how many polling places there are in PP.
As for my polling spot, Garfield Memorial Church, it went very smoothly with a few notations:
1. A candidate for treasurer who had withdrawn was on the ballot.
2. When I missed a judge, and I was doing the review of my choices, the missed race came up in very obvious red. That was cool.
3. The print out receipt that you can review isn’t so easy to look at – but it’s better than a punchcard – which you really can’t review at all.
4. I didn’t understand really what the very last “race” was – it said County Central Committee – Write-in. I puzzled over that. Did it mean there was no one running? Were there supposed to be choices for whom I could write-in? I didn’t have a clue.
So… I wrote myself in! LMAO. I figured I’d see what happens.
From around the Ohio blogosphere on the voting experience as of 11am today:
If you have a complaint or just want to share, Ted Strickland’s campaign wants to know. (I already sent in my review.)
From Buckeye State Blog.
From Democracy Guy.
From Heights Mom.
Nothing yet on the Plain Dealer’s OPEN website/blog though its main website has some articles.
Have Coffee Will Write mentions how the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Chair refuses to use the new electronic voting machines, possibly ever.
What do you think? Does Jimmy Dimora’s decision to not use a system set up by Ken Blackwell set a good example for us to follow? Or a bad one?
Cross-posted at The American Street, and in part at DG.
UPDATE:
Peanut Butter Knife has a wonderful post (Summit County) with pictures and everything of the optical scan equipment and ballot. Nice job!
Also, Psychobilly Democrat (also Summit County) has a nice review and more current round-up. Redhorse suggests that if I really want that write-in win, I need to tell people about it.
That’s funny, Jason!
2x UPDATE:
A comment on DG from Adele Eisner, in Cleveland Heights.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:15 pm May 2nd, 2006 in Politics | 1 Comment
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Jennifer Martinez Atzberger: Unable to meet petition deadline
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I received the following letter this afternoon:
Dear friends and supporters of the Committee to Elect Jennifer Martinez:
Today is obviously a bit of a bittersweet day for those of us who initially worked on the campaign to get my name on the ballot as a Democratic candidate. It is also a tough day for me because I have to inform those of you who are not already aware of the fact that we were
not able to file petitions as an independent candidate in this election.
Although we did obtain several thousand signatures, with a lot of help from many different volunteers, we determined last week that we would not be successful in our goal before the May 1st deadline. There was just not enough time, and the effort required was too much of a strain on myself, and more importantly, on my family.
However, I wanted to sincerely thank those of you who put so much time and effort into helping me in every stage of this campaign. In particular, I want to thank Dave for his amazing efforts on the webpage and on all of our flyers. Thank you to every one who donated to our
campaign, and who volunteered to get signatures.
Finally, I am so grateful to Brenda for taking on this experience with me, and helping
me put together what was obviously a threatening enough campaign to place us on the radar screen of others who did not want to see us on the ballot.
Now I can only encourage everyone to vote for people they truly believe in, and to not let the political elite run this country forever. It will hopefully start today with at least a few deserving candidates making it on to the ballot for the general election.
Good luck to candidates like Joe Young and others who are running for the right reasons!
Thank you again for your support!
Jennifer Martinez
I did indeed vote for Joe Young in this race, and a lot had to do with the civility and levelheadedness with which he approached Jennifer’s situation. It also had to do with the enormous number of yard signs he had all around my area!
Good luck, Joe.
Here’s the post that got it all started.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:23 pm May 2nd, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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Does no one love Zach Reed?
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Because if someone, anyone out there does, or once did, why aren’t you helping him? And by helping I mean, slap him upside the head, tell him to quit work, get into treatment and figure out what the hell is causing him to play fast and loose with voters’ support of him and Cleveland’s need for respectful councilpersons. Not to mention his body and his life and his career.
I don’t know him (pictured here) and I don’t know municipal employee law. I know from this that at least as of last fall, he was Chairman of the Public Safety Committee. How ironic is that?
But I know that this man isn’t heading toward anything good.
Do you really want to see him written up in Regina Brett’s column as another multiple DUI offender who got away with murder?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:50 pm May 2nd, 2006 in Politics | 3 Comments
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You can read more about the madness in the methods and the method in the madness of Newsweek magazine’s attempt to rank and write about public high schools here.
The Plain Dealer had a short on the list in the Metro section (online it indicates Scott Stephens wrote the piece, but in the print paper it indicates Janet Okoben):
Newsweek notes local high schools:
Newsweek magazine unveils its list of the top 1,000 high schools in the country this week, and Chagrin Falls High, at No. 97, is the top-rated locally. Solon and Orange high schools ranked 136 and 143, respectively. The top- ranked Ohio high school was Walnut Hills in Cincinnati, which came in at No. 63.
Newsweek makes its rankings based on how many students take Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate tests. Talented & Gifted High in Dallas was the magazine’s top-ranked school.
Maybe I should move to Dallas? Doesn’t take me a nano-second to say no.
Though I did meet a fascinating documentary filmmaker, Patrick Fries, from Austin, a couple of weeks ago, and we chatted a lot about education. He’s following the life of his daughter, whom he and his wife adopted when she was 10 months old and, unbeknownst to them, has cerebral palsy. She is now 15 and they have many stories to tell about her life, and theirs.
Patrick also did In the Shadow of the Blade, a story of military veterans and a Vietnam helicopter that is now housed in the Smithsonian. Here’s a blog Patrick’s wife kept about the film and other related news and happenings.
The entire Newsweek list can be found here.
In a related op-ed from yesterday, David Brooks equates the high school lunchroom with politics. Please tell me this isn’t the first time that’s occured to him, or anyone else for that matter.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:38 am May 2nd, 2006 in Politics | 2 Comments
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Here’s the scoop on lovely, suburban, 9K population Pepper Pike, 15 miles east of Cleveland, in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The city is run by Mayor Bruce Akers – an experienced, well-known Republican and typically goes GOP, but the older population that typified the town for so long is moving on, in all the ways that means. Younger families are coming in because of the public schools (just ranked #143 by Newsweek out of 1000 in the country). However, the county is overwhelmingly Dem.
My precinct was very quiet and had a lot of workers – four at least for every precinct.
The biggest news: Two polling places in PP are completely shutdown. The County BOE worker at my precinct told me that. She said that she’d expected that maybe there’d be some folks wandering over and asking for provisionals but none have asked for any yet. She didn’t say which two and I’m not familiar with how many polling places there are in PP.
As for my polling spot, Garfield Memorial Church, it went very smoothly with a few notations:
1. A candidate for treasurer who had withdrawn was on the ballot.
2. When I missed a judge, and I was doing the review of my choices, the missed race came up in very obvious red. That was cool.
3. The print out receipt that you can review isn’t so easy to look at – but it’s better than a punchcard – which you really can’t review at all.
4. I didn’t understand really what the very last “race” was – it said County Central Committee – Write-in. I puzzled over that. Did it mean there was no one running? Were there supposed to be choices for whom I could write-in? I didn’t have a clue.
So… I wrote myself in! LMAO. I figured I’d see what happens.
From around the Ohio blogosphere on the voting experience as of 11am today:
If you have a complaint or just want to share, Ted Strickland’s campaign wants to know. (I already sent in my review.)
From Buckeye State Blog.
From Democracy Guy.
From Heights Mom.
Nothing yet on the Plain Dealer’s OPEN website/blog though its main website has some articles.
Have Coffee Will Write mentions how the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Chair refuses to use the new electronic voting machines, possibly ever.
What do you think? Does Jimmy Dimora’s decision to not use a system set up by Ken Blackwell set a good example for us to follow? Or a bad one?
Cross-posted at The American Street, and in part at DG.
UPDATE:
Peanut Butter Knife has a wonderful post (Summit County) with pictures and everything of the optical scan equipment and ballot. Nice job!
Also, Psychobilly Democrat (also Summit County) has a nice review and more current round-up. Redhorse suggests that if I really want that write-in win, I need to tell people about it.
That’s funny, Jason!
2x UPDATE:
A comment on DG from Adele Eisner, in Cleveland Heights.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:15 am May 2nd, 2006 in Politics | 1 Comment
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Does no one love Zach Reed?
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Because if someone, anyone out there does, or once did, why aren’t you helping him? And by helping I mean, slap him upside the head, tell him to quit work, get into treatment and figure out what the hell is causing him to play fast and loose with voters’ support of him and Cleveland’s need for respectful councilpersons. Not to mention his body and his life and his career.
I don’t know him (pictured here) and I don’t know municipal employee law. I know from this that at least as of last fall, he was Chairman of the Public Safety Committee. How ironic is that?
But I know that this man isn’t heading toward anything good.
Do you really want to see him written up in Regina Brett’s column as another multiple DUI offender who got away with murder?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:50 am May 2nd, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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[UPDATED 2x] Voting in Pepper Pike; reports around the blogosphere
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Here’s the scoop on lovely, suburban, 9K population Pepper Pike, 15 miles east of Cleveland, in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The city is run by Mayor Bruce Akers – an experienced, well-known Republican and typically goes GOP, but the older population that typified the town for so long is moving on, in all the ways that means. Younger families are coming in because of the public schools (just ranked #143 by Newsweek out of 1000 in the country). However, the county is overwhelmingly Dem.
My precinct was very quiet and had a lot of workers – four at least for every precinct.
The biggest news: Two polling places in PP are completely shutdown. The County BOE worker at my precinct told me that. She said that she’d expected that maybe there’d be some folks wandering over and asking for provisionals but none have asked for any yet. She didn’t say which two and I’m not familiar with how many polling places there are in PP.
As for my polling spot, Garfield Memorial Church, it went very smoothly with a few notations:
1. A candidate for treasurer who had withdrawn was on the ballot.
2. When I missed a judge, and I was doing the review of my choices, the missed race came up in very obvious red. That was cool.
3. The print out receipt that you can review isn’t so easy to look at – but it’s better than a punchcard – which you really can’t review at all.
4. I didn’t understand really what the very last “race” was – it said County Central Committee – Write-in. I puzzled over that. Did it mean there was no one running? Were there supposed to be choices for whom I could write-in? I didn’t have a clue.
So… I wrote myself in! LMAO. I figured I’d see what happens.
From around the Ohio blogosphere on the voting experience as of 11am today:
If you have a complaint or just want to share, Ted Strickland’s campaign wants to know. (I already sent in my review.)
From Buckeye State Blog.
From Democracy Guy.
From Heights Mom.
Nothing yet on the Plain Dealer’s OPEN website/blog though its main website has some articles.
Have Coffee Will Write mentions how the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Chair refuses to use the new electronic voting machines, possibly ever.
What do you think? Does Jimmy Dimora’s decision to not use a system set up by Ken Blackwell set a good example for us to follow? Or a bad one?
Cross-posted at The American Street, and in part at DG.
UPDATE:
Peanut Butter Knife has a wonderful post (Summit County) with pictures and everything of the optical scan equipment and ballot. Nice job!
Also, Psychobilly Democrat (also Summit County) has a nice review and more current round-up. Redhorse suggests that if I really want that write-in win, I need to tell people about it.
That’s funny, Jason!
2x UPDATE:
A comment on DG from Adele Eisner, in Cleveland Heights.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:15 am May 2nd, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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You can read more about the madness in the methods and the method in the madness of Newsweek magazine’s attempt to rank and write about public high schools here.
The Plain Dealer had a short on the list in the Metro section (online it indicates Scott Stephens wrote the piece, but in the print paper it indicates Janet Okoben):
Newsweek notes local high schools:
Newsweek magazine unveils its list of the top 1,000 high schools in the country this week, and Chagrin Falls High, at No. 97, is the top-rated locally. Solon and Orange high schools ranked 136 and 143, respectively. The top- ranked Ohio high school was Walnut Hills in Cincinnati, which came in at No. 63.
Newsweek makes its rankings based on how many students take Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate tests. Talented & Gifted High in Dallas was the magazine’s top-ranked school.
Maybe I should move to Dallas? Doesn’t take me a nano-second to say no.
Though I did meet a fascinating documentary filmmaker, Patrick Fries, from Austin, a couple of weeks ago, and we chatted a lot about education. He’s following the life of his daughter, whom he and his wife adopted when she was 10 months old and, unbeknownst to them, has cerebral palsy. She is now 15 and they have many stories to tell about her life, and theirs.
Patrick also did In the Shadow of the Blade, a story of military veterans and a Vietnam helicopter that is now housed in the Smithsonian. Here’s a blog Patrick’s wife kept about the film and other related news and happenings.
The entire Newsweek list can be found here.
In a related op-ed from yesterday, David Brooks equates the high school lunchroom with politics. Please tell me this isn’t the first time that’s occured to him, or anyone else for that matter.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:38 am May 2nd, 2006 in Politics | 2 Comments
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Newsweek: Top High Schools, Orange = #143 in country
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You can read more about the madness in the methods and the method in the madness of Newsweek magazine’s attempt to rank and write about public high schools here.
The Plain Dealer had a short on the list in the Metro section (online it indicates Scott Stephens wrote the piece, but in the print paper it indicates Janet Okoben):
Newsweek notes local high schools:
Newsweek magazine unveils its list of the top 1,000 high schools in the country this week, and Chagrin Falls High, at No. 97, is the top-rated locally. Solon and Orange high schools ranked 136 and 143, respectively. The top- ranked Ohio high school was Walnut Hills in Cincinnati, which came in at No. 63.
Newsweek makes its rankings based on how many students take Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate tests. Talented & Gifted High in Dallas was the magazine’s top-ranked school.
Maybe I should move to Dallas? Doesn’t take me a nano-second to say no.
Though I did meet a fascinating documentary filmmaker, Patrick Fries, from Austin, a couple of weeks ago, and we chatted a lot about education. He’s following the life of his daughter, whom he and his wife adopted when she was 10 months old and, unbeknownst to them, has cerebral palsy. She is now 15 and they have many stories to tell about her life, and theirs.
Patrick also did In the Shadow of the Blade, a story of military veterans and a Vietnam helicopter that is now housed in the Smithsonian. Here’s a blog Patrick’s wife kept about the film and other related news and happenings.
The entire Newsweek list can be found here.
In a related op-ed from yesterday, David Brooks equates the high school lunchroom with politics. Please tell me this isn’t the first time that’s occured to him, or anyone else for that matter.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:38 am May 2nd, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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