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Where’s my race’s results??


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.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:32 pm May 2nd, 2006 in Politics 

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13 Responses to “Where’s my race’s results??”

  1. 1 Jerry sans link on May 2nd, 2006 11:26 pm

    Where would I find the results in [the] race [for Democratic County Central Committee]?

    Here, which says, “Democratic County Central Committee results and voter turnout counts will not be posted until all precincts are counted.”

  2. 2 Jill on May 2nd, 2006 11:57 pm

    Jerry – do people who know you know what a treasure you are? Do they TELL you what a treasure you are? Have you seen that the Bill Ransom people have written comments now (and emailed me too just this week)? All because of you. :)

  3. 3 Jerry sans link on May 3rd, 2006 12:23 am

    I was unaware of the developments re Bill Ransom–thanks for the update.

    Of course, with a little ingenuity, persistence and facility with search engines, it’s really not that hard to (usually) find relevant links. Or, to coin a maxim, “With Google, the World (Wide Web) is your oyster.”

  4. 4 Jill on May 3rd, 2006 12:36 am

    Hey Jerry – I’m going to bed, but I checked that site and tried to found the county central committee race – write-in. I couldn’t find it. I pulled a Democratic ballot. I wonder if it was a mistake? I don’t know! Any other thoughts?

  5. 5 Jerry sans link on May 3rd, 2006 2:36 am

    My mistake. I somehow confused the Democratic State Central Committee Races with the Democratic County Central Committee Races. The former are posted; the latter are not.

    Each precinct (potentially) elects its own representative to the Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC). (See here for information.) Out of curiousity I looked at Pepper Pike ballots for a few precincts. I found: one had specific candidates for DCCC representative; one had “write-in” for DCCC representative; one did not have the office on the ballot.

    It would appear that there might be many (hundreds?) of DCCC races to be reported in Cuyahoga County. Based on the BOE note (“Democratic County Central Committee results and voter turnout counts will not be posted until all precincts are counted”), I’m guessing that the results you seek might not be posted for a while. And I’m not sure where on the BOE site they will be posted because I can’t find the 2004 results for the Republican County Central Committee.

    Sorry about the misinformation.

  6. 6 scott bakalar on May 3rd, 2006 9:51 am

    I would just assume you won, Jill – until somebody tells you otherwise.

  7. 7 Jill on May 3rd, 2006 10:02 am

    Jerry – your posts still give me a lot of info I didn’t have. I’ll figure it out somehow, or I’ll just keep asking questions. I like cold-calling big party people. :)

  8. 8 Jill on May 3rd, 2006 10:03 am

    Hmm, Scott, do you think I should just show up at the next County Central Committee meeting, blend-in and get counted? If Ken Blackwell can fool people into believing he has one molecule of ability to be governor of Ohio, how bad could I do as a pretend centcomm member?

  9. 9 scott bakalar on May 3rd, 2006 10:07 am

    Yep.

  10. 10 Yellow Dog Sammy on May 3rd, 2006 9:23 pm

    I ran for the office of county centralo committee member, unopposed, so I just assume that I won. (I know that at least I voted for me!) If your ballot was marked “Write-in.” it means that nobody filed to run for the position by the deadline Iit was back in February), but somebody filed to run as a write-in candidate prior to a later deadline (can’t recall what it was … March something?). Anyway … write-in votes don’t count unless the name written in was submitted with the appropriate number of signatures before the applicable deadline.

    Nevertheless … in your mind, Jill, in your mind, you can be the Precinct Generalissimo Commnder-in-Chief as a result of your vote, and that’s all right with all of us!

  11. 11 Jill on May 3rd, 2006 9:33 pm

    That is excellent, Jeff. Really – you have me laughing so hard. Thanks.

    So, just so I understand, in order to be a write-in, you do have to actually file by a certain time with a certain number of signatures, yes? AND, if you meet whatever the write-in requirements are, then your name would appear under the ballot heading, “County Central Committee” – right? Instead of the words “write-in”?

    My only confusion there, then, is that how would you know the difference between a bona fide candidate for a county centcomm position and a write-in candidate for the same position? would there be separate places at which you’d touch the screen to select – that is, they wouldn’t be running against one another?

    AND…again, here’s where it makes no sense: if no one existed as a write-in, and so the words “write-in” are on the ballot screen, AND you can write in a name but that name means nothing because that person never got certified or whatever as a write-in (whereas if he or she had, he or she would have been listed by name – not as a write-in??), then why did they even have that as a choice at which you need to cast a vote?

    FOR EXAMPLE: Charlie Wilson – did people have to literally write in his name? OR…was his name on the ballot as a “write-in” candidate?

  12. 12 scott bakalar on May 4th, 2006 12:32 pm

    Last November we had 2 candidates for the Lorain City School Board, who were kept off the ballot by Ken Blackwell. They ran none-the-less as write-ins.

    Problem being that we were using the touch screens for the first time, folks were intimidated with the touch screen “keyboard”, or forgot how to spell these men’s names correctly – so neither of them got elected.

    My experience was that you had to actually write/type the names in.

  13. 13 Yellow Dog Sammy on May 4th, 2006 1:21 pm

    Sad to say, Jill, the names of legit write-in candidates do NOT appear on the ballot, even though such names are known to the Board of Elections in time to put them there. It is up to the voter to know, and write or type in, the name of the write-in candidate.

    How closely the written-in name must match the actual name of the candidate depends on what the names of the regular candidates are. No joke! If there’s a Jill M. Zimon on the ballot as a regular candidate, and a Jill Q. Zimon filed as a write-in candidate, then the middle initial or name has to be there for the write-in vote to count. On the other hand, since Charlie Wilson’s adversaries in the primary were named Bob Carr and John Luchansky, there was no possiblity of confusion, so votes for “Wilson” would be sufficient, and “Wilsin,” “Wellson,” and “Welson” might be okay too, so long as the voter’s intent can be determined. These decisions are made by the Board of Elections. If the Board can’t decide it goes to … guess who? (Amazing how that Blackwell fellow is involved in so many things.)

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