lets try number uno.....that looks better...and also number two now................

I am not sure.........in most elections, you can tell.......but in this one, I just am not sure who will benefit from a large turnout!

I will be amazed if the election results don't get challenged. First and foremost -- this was not an anonymous election. It was required by anyone who mailed their ballots in, that they had to sign their ballots. What ever happened to "secret ballot" which is one of the most basic of American rights. I looked up Voters Rights on the Secretary of State's website, and #2 says all voters are guaranteed the right to cast a secret ballot. What's so secret about having to sign my name to a ballot?

Oh, and where's the equality of the election. Everyone who was to mail their ballots in had to pay $1.05!!!! While I realize in the majority of voters in the Ord School District, forking over $1.05 probably isn't that big a deal. But it still poses the potential to eliminate a voter because he/she couldn't come up with the $1.05. Yes, I realize they could take their ballot to the courthouse and personally deliver it, but the possibility exists that someone was unable to pay for the postage or deliver their ballot.

I believe this bond issue election is fraught with problems. It has all kinds of cracks that, if someone chooses to go out and hire an attorney, that someone would be able to challenge the outcome of the election. If the bond issue passes, my advice to the school board ... don't get too anxious to get the shovels in the ground; you may be sitting in a courtroom trying to defend a very faulty election process. And CARE5, don't go celebrating your victory (or should I say "defeat" if the bond issue doesn't pass?), someone from the "other side" may challenge the election's faulty process, and the whole thing may have to be re-done.

and just why was it done this way? Was it to save money for the county?

It will just be nice to have this mess over with.....friend against friend is not good. When I came here in 1975, (dating myself) the people were fighting of the school and the hospital. Now 34 years later, the people are fighting over the school and the hospital. The more we progress, the more we stay the same.

Ok just to clear up a few things. First of all if you had read the county clerks comments or have been educated on this election process at all you would know that your ballots are kept secret for the simply fact that there exists a three person committee. One person opens the ballot and I'm probably going to get some of this wrong but another person removes the ballot and puts it face down and the other counts. No one person looks at the name on the ballot and the way they voted. Also a person must sign the ballot for legal purposes. This is to signify that they are voting of their own accord and that it is not voter fraud or something to that extent.

I am sure you are right trone, and after thinking about it, I am sure this is the way they were told to do it by the Sec.of State's office.

My thoughts exactly Lawman...I'm sure they either consult with the SofS or he has to approve the process...it doesn't benefit anyone to have questions of election fraud hanging out there.