Remember when Greg Kimsey talked about restoring "voter confidence?"

Oh yeah.... he was all ABOUT "voter confidence." So, in his world, "voter confidence" begins and ends with "mail only ballots."

He tells us: "The best way to restore citizen confidence in the integrity of the election process is to reduce the complexity of that process."

So... how much of our "confidence" was restored when the story below hit the stands?

I'm given to understand that one of our commissioners has received two separate ballots. I know for a fact that a friend has received 2 ballots in the same envelope in Battle Ground.

I'm not all that confident in our system... are you?



Election 2005: C-Tran ballots: another mistake

Monday, September 19, 2005
By DAVE KERN, The Columbian

Clark County elections officials are scrambling to correct a second problem in getting C-Tran ballots to all eligible voters.

On Thursday, officials realized they had neglected to send C-Tran ballots to 367 voters in Precinct 573, the Glenwood area, east of Salmon Creek. C-Tran ballots were mailed that day to those 367 voters.

On Wednesday, the elections office mailed 489 ballots to people who live between the Camas city limits and the Vancouver urban growth area. Those voters also were eligible C-Tran voters but did not receive ballots with the C-Tran measure listed.

The mistakes were the result of incorrect information given by C-Tran and a clerical error in the elections office, officials said. C-Tran boundary changes were instituted last May.

C-Tran is asking for a 0.2 of a percent increase in the sales tax to keep from cutting service. That amount equals 2 cents on a $10 purchase. C-Tran already gets 0.3 of a percent from the sales tax.

"That was my mistake," said Tim Likness, the county's elections supervisor, of the Glenwood error. He said the county did four things after discovering the Glenwood mistake.

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