The Co-Knucklehead of the Day award Part Two

Our second winner today is Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor Arthur Anderson. Mr. Anderson has a penchant for getting my award, click here for example. His latest knucklehead award goes to him because of the botched counting of ballots in a Mangonia Park race city commission race.

An election night foul-up at the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Office, in which absentee ballots from Pahokee were mistakenly tallied as votes in Mangonia Park, was corrected Wednesday -- changing the outcome of one race.

Supervisor of Elections Arthur Anderson attributed the problem to "human error."

Frances Elien, the Mangonia Park councilwoman who held a barbecue with supporters Tuesday night to celebrate what she thought was her re-election, wasn't satisfied with the explanation. The corrected results on Wednesday showed Elien losing narrowly to Peggy Cook.

Elien said she wants details.

"They have to show where those votes went. Why did it happen? What measures are you taking to make sure that it doesn't happen again?" she said.

Her concerns go beyond her own contest. She said the problem would shake public confidence in elections.

Sure does Ms. Eileen. Wasn't Anderson voted(or hoisted) into office so we would have no more election 'incompetence' like 2000. Funny it seems we now have a clear case of votes going to the wrong candidate. Are all the Democrats come flocking to Palm Beach County now to demand a recount or a do over election??? Better yet did Mr. Anderson take counting lessons from another famous AA who is no longer in business?

Ok enough sarcasm already. Read the entire article to understand how human error works. For not properly supervising a City election, Arthur Anderson is today's Second Co-Knucklehead of the day.

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