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Mailing my ballot

February 20, 2018

In Vote by mail I promised to get back to you after I sent in a form that the state democrat’s executive committee sent me.

Yesterday I received an envelope with five documents and two return envelopes.

There were a lot of rules and admonitions.

Ultimately it came down to filling out the ballot, placing it in a ballot envelope, then placing the ballot envelope in a carrier envelope, and then signing my name on the carrier envelope.

I suppose that when they receive it they will look at the carrier envelope and my signature and mark the voter rolls to show that I have voted. They will then probably open the carrier envelope, extract the ballot envelope, open the ballot envelope, extract the ballot and send the ballot on to be counted.

We deserve better

Brutus

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EPISD–fighting the wrong battle

February 19, 2018

It looks like the political situation over at the EPISD board is getting pretty bad.

Recently two board members requested board action to cause an audit of the activities of a third.

The one they want to audit is aligned with our former county judge who is now running for congress and is against the current superintendent and the former board president (who is also running for congress).

I don’t see how the board has the power to order an audit (investigation) into one of its members. They can certainly ask to have an audit performed relating to actions performed or not performed by district staff, but auditing an elected board member is beyond their powers as far as I can tell.

It is unfortunate that many of our elected officials are so completely ignorant of the law.

We deserve better

Brutus