It's been over a month since the Richland County election fiasco, and the Richland County Elections Director, Lillian McBride, remains in office. Apparently, this has upset the Chairman of the Richland County Election Board, Elizabeth Crum to the extent that she has resigned.
Crum, an attorney, said that restoring voter trust in the combined Elections & Voter Registration Office would require a new director. She announced her views following a two-hour, closed-door session of the five-member board that oversees McBride’s office. The private discussion was to get legal advice and consider a personnel matter. Afterward, the board returned to public session, and Crum announced it [the Richland County Election Commission] had taken no action.
The Richland County Election Commission has decided to do absolutely nothing substantive after having over a month to think about things. This obviously didn't sit well with Chairman Crum, who resigned immediately following the meeting on Monday.
Here's what the Commission did suggest:
• To push for a statewide early voting law to minimize long lines
• To support a law that would allow counties of 100,000 people or more to open satellite locations
• To ask the other 45 county election boards to lobby their delegations for the same laws.
Are you kidding me? The Commission recommended "early voting" as a solution? Hey voters. We can't actually figure out how to get enough machines available to let all y'all vote on the same day, so if some of y'all could vote early, that would be great....m'kay? Thanks.
I don't really understand why we need early voting anyway. You can either vote absentee or can you vote on election day. What's the deal?
I also love the second suggestion. Hey, let's open more voting locations! Idiots. The locations that we currently have don't have enough voting machines! The problem isn't that we don't have enough places to go. We need more functional voting machines in the places we currently have.
The third suggestion baffles me. What right does Richland County have to demand that other counties do anything? As far as I can tell, the other counties actually have their ducks in a row and the voting is fine. This seems to me like the kid who can't get his homework done demanding that the prepared students come to the extra study-hall with him. If I were in charge of another County's election board, I'd tell Richland County to go pound sand.
I don't really understand why we need early voting anyway. You can either vote absentee or can you vote on election day. What's the deal?
I also love the second suggestion. Hey, let's open more voting locations! Idiots. The locations that we currently have don't have enough voting machines! The problem isn't that we don't have enough places to go. We need more functional voting machines in the places we currently have.
The third suggestion baffles me. What right does Richland County have to demand that other counties do anything? As far as I can tell, the other counties actually have their ducks in a row and the voting is fine. This seems to me like the kid who can't get his homework done demanding that the prepared students come to the extra study-hall with him. If I were in charge of another County's election board, I'd tell Richland County to go pound sand.
So here's where we stand: The person who was actually responsible for the fiasco continues to serve, while the one Commissioner with enough guts to call for some accountability is out-voted, then resigns in disgust. Meanwhile, the Commission comes up with nonsensical ideas that won't solve the problem.
As long as corrupt and incompetent people are elected, this is what you're going to get.
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