Big-Name Felon Gets New Voter Card in Palm Beach County
It wasn't sloppy work in her shop, oh, no. As always with the accident-prone Palm Beach County supervisor of elections, sending a new voter card to a high-profile felon was someone else's fault.
In a conversation with Jack Furnari of BIZPAC Review, Susan Bucher, vocal critic of the state's voter-list purge to say the least, couldn't explain why her office sent Kevin McCarty a new voter card. McCarty is at the center of one of the most widely publicized public corruption cases in Palm Beach County history. His is a name that rarely goes unrecognized these days. And yet it rang not a single bell in the Palm Beach County elections office.
When asked how such a well-known felon could be sent a new voter card, Bucher told BIZPAC: “I didn't even know his first name was Lawrence. I don't look up felons in the newspaper. This is another instance of bad voter data by the state."
Got it, Susan. Thanks.
Democrat Bucher's office, by the way, was among the first to call off the SOE review of eligible voters.
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3:59PM JUN 19TH 2012
Yes, it's clearly Susan Bucher's job to scour the courts and newspapers daily to know who is and who is not a felon and remove that name from her voter registration list, correct? Of course not!
Shall we put other, Republican, supervisors of election to the same test?
QUESTION: Is the name on any felon list Ms. Bucher may have gotten from the state identical to the name on the voter registration records in her office, and did she receive that information long before her office sent out the new card based on new redistricting (I got mine about 2 weeks ago, but they appear to have been goiing out since at least last December)?
Once you answer that question, perhaps we can address whose fault this may be. Meanwhile, you're just taking another journalist's report as gospel because it fits your desire to throw stones without doing any journalism on your own. You know better; I expect more from you.
This time, you're clearly being petty and partisan, Nancy, and you still haven't apologized to Susan Bucher for your previous claims that didn't turn out to be true, now have you?
If you're going to attack, do a little independent journalistic investigation first.
Shall we put other, Republican, supervisors of election to the same test?
QUESTION: Is the name on any felon list Ms. Bucher may have gotten from the state identical to the name on the voter registration records in her office, and did she receive that information long before her office sent out the new card based on new redistricting (I got mine about 2 weeks ago, but they appear to have been goiing out since at least last December)?
Once you answer that question, perhaps we can address whose fault this may be. Meanwhile, you're just taking another journalist's report as gospel because it fits your desire to throw stones without doing any journalism on your own. You know better; I expect more from you.
This time, you're clearly being petty and partisan, Nancy, and you still haven't apologized to Susan Bucher for your previous claims that didn't turn out to be true, now have you?
If you're going to attack, do a little independent journalistic investigation first.
