THE BIGGER PICTURE
Although the controversy involving the Marion County Election Board over bad voter registration cards has subsided, there is a much bigger picture here I think needs to be addressed.
Based on the e-mails I’ve received and talking to a lot of mail carriers, there were a lot of cards that went out to bad addresses. One estimate put it out at 2,000 bad addresses in any given zip code alone.
That tells me that come 2009, when there is no election on tap, the voter rolls in Marion County should be purged and all voters told to re-register. At the very least this would give us clean a voter registration list, make the Clerk’s job easier and maybe actually give the County a little more informed electorate because the people who care enough to re-register are probably more likely to know what the heck is going on in this town.
