One of the ex-Dover PA School Board members challenging the vote

[LynneSin]

For those of you totally unaware of what happened in Dover, PA - well it was amazing. About a year ago the School Board in Dover PA decided they were going to include Intelligent Design in the 9th grade science class.

Well, all heck broke loose including lawsuits that have been going up the judicial ladder. A group of democratics fielded candidates to run against the incumbant, republican school board and they SWEPT the election (one seat was not up for re-election and still has a pro-ID school board member). ANd mind you, this is a very conservative area of Pennsylvania so this is huge.

But reading this article in the Philly Inq I found this little quip:

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/13130383.htm

"Four years ago, people were polarized over the school building project; now they are polarized over intelligent design and voted in the liberal school board," said Jim Cashman, who is challenging the vote count because he contends a machine malfunctioned. "People think it's a religious issue, but it's not."

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The machine did not malfunction - what malfunction is a school board who thought they could force religion on its students even though there is something called the Constitution which says for separation of Church and State!!.

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And from the local York Newspaper:

http://ydr.com/story/doverbiology/93948/

Cashman ready to contest results
A voting machine might have malfunctioned in the Dover school board race.
By MICHELLE STARR
Daily Record/Sunday News
Thursday, November 10, 2005

York County's election office is investigating reports that a voting machine at Friendship Community Church in Dover Township malfunctioned and may not have recorded votes for an incumbent school board candidate.
Tuesday night, eight incumbents lost their seats on the Dover Area School Board to eight challengers in the opposition group Dover CARES.

James Cashman, who lost his run at a four-year term, said he heard late Tuesday that his votes weren't being counted.

Word of the malfunction spread to county officials Wednesday. Officials wouldn't comment about — or said they didn't know — what would be done if the machine didn't record votes that it should have.