Thank God we dwell in progressive Massachusetts.
If we lived in a backwater state like Mississippi, we would have to look at inept election officers actually lock themselves out of a vault the place all of the ballots are saved — main the city to print ballots on main day.
Or endure last-minute election soiled methods like airing nasty opposition analysis about an alleged sexual assault that occurred in highschool.
Or see one of many main candidates attempt to play kingmaker by attempting to almost single-handedly drag one other candidate in a distinct race throughout the end line.
Or watch a shootout in a lifeboat like one the place two Republican candidates try to kill one another to win a race with few voters and even fewer concepts.
Sounds miserable, proper?
Well, guess what, we at the moment are that state.
A state the place the information on main day was dominated by the city of Barnstable turning away voters as a result of they didn’t have any ballots — they had been all locked in a vault that officers couldn’t open.
“I don’t know what happened to the door overnight, but it, it broke,” stated city clerk Ann Quirk.
So the city needed to try to rush to print further ballots and hold the polls open till midnight – by no means thoughts the safety concerns of doing that.
It’s a traditional instance of election ineptitude and a purpose why some folks don’t belief election officers with ballots.
In Boston, in the meantime progressive hero Mayor Michelle Wu is resorting to old-style politics by attempting to screw a former rival, endorsing her opponent within the legal professional common’s race.
This is identical Wu who’s now attempting to revamp the long-lasting “I Voted” sticker you get after casting a poll. Maybe she doesn’t just like the American flag within the sticker?
Maura Healey, in the meantime, has spent most of her time in the previous few weeks of the first race stumping for AG candidate Andrea Campbell. Forget about the truth that Healey has her personal marketing campaign for governor (wherein she’s unopposed) — she is now rolling the cube to tug Campbell throughout the end line. Why she is expending a lot of her political capital to elevate Campbell is anybody’s guess. But it may backfire.
Campbell’s marketing campaign, by the way in which, is resorting to detrimental campaigning in the previous few days by attacking her opponent Shannon Liss-Riordan, who’s spending hundreds of thousands of her personal cash that she earned in authorized charges to win the AG race.
“Shannon Liss-Riordan won millions. But did she take too much for herself?” Campbell’s marketing campaign texted out to voters the day earlier than the first.
Liss Riordan, by the way in which, has her personal movie star endorsers – Wu and Elizabeth Warren, who each have their very own political causes for eager to defeat Campbell.
And in Suffolk County, voters had been handled to a last-minute mudslinging match over a decade-old sexual assault investigation towards one of many candidates for district legal professional, Ricardo Arroyo. Arroyo was by no means charged and has accused his opponent, Kevin Hayden, of soiled methods by disseminating the opposition analysis.
Fun, proper?
Makes you want Election Day had been already right here.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”