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TexasTowelie

(112,102 posts)
Fri Feb 6, 2015, 11:45 PM Feb 2015

School board election and nobody gave a damn to vote

ROSWELL, N.M. — The rural southeastern New Mexico town of Hagerman held an uncontested election for three school board seats, but nobody voted. Now what?

The Roswell Daily Record (http://goo.gl/X0pyxj) reports that's what officials are trying to determine.

Chaves County Clerk Dave Kunko said the three candidates needed at least one vote each to be elected. And Kunko said because they aren't incumbents they don't remain in office automatically absent a replacement being elected.

Kunko said he's received legal advice to have the current school board appoint the three candidates for the positions that were up for election.

Read more: http://lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2015-02-06/zero-turnout-school-election-officials-weigh-next-move#comment-363257

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School board election and nobody gave a damn to vote (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2015 OP
This is sad, they must not have voted also. Thinkingabout Feb 2015 #1
Yep, so they deseved to lose their seats. JimDandy Feb 2015 #2
What about the children? TexasTowelie Feb 2015 #3
Maybe they were all very bad choices lunasun Feb 2015 #6
It's almost like "Something" prevented anyone from voting. BlueJazz Feb 2015 #4
wow Liberal_in_LA Feb 2015 #5
What Corporation owns those vote "counting" machines??? blkmusclmachine Feb 2015 #7

TexasTowelie

(112,102 posts)
3. What about the children?
Sat Feb 7, 2015, 12:12 AM
Feb 2015

Think how discouraging it must be to go to a school where nobody cared. None of the parents, none of the teachers, none of the adminstrators--no one, nobody.

 

blkmusclmachine

(16,149 posts)
7. What Corporation owns those vote "counting" machines???
Sat Feb 7, 2015, 07:41 AM
Feb 2015

You know, the machines that the public is barred from verifying as true/accurate/reliable???

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