A local organization is requesting a meeting with the Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections. The organization said it has received numerous complaints during the first week of Early Voting.<\/p>\n
Mrs. Carolyn Collins<\/strong>, President of the Hillsborough County Branch NAACP, Ms. Yvette Lewis<\/strong>, the organization\u2019s Political Action Chairman, and members of the Executive Committee sent a letter requesting the meeting with Dr. Earl Lennard<\/strong>, Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections.<\/p>\n \u201cIt should be noted that there is the perception of questionable actions by the office. The relationship with the office has been a good one with Dr. Lennard<\/strong> and his staff; however, it should be noted that the Chief of Staff responsible for day-to-day operations is also running for office.<\/p>\n \u201cThis may create management difficulties to a degree because of the failure to admit to problems. It should be noted that the problem is greater than the SOE and the SOE staff. These concerns interfere with the successful implementation of our VOTE,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n Some of the concerns outlined in the letter include Citizens registering as a Democrat and in the system as a Republican; and Citizens receiving an absentee ballot that they did not request and the SOE Office reveal a ballot without a signature.<\/p>\n Other complaints includes Candidate\u2019s name\u00a0 left off a ballot; Names purged in error from the voting roll; Registered voters receiving letter of ineligibility and then receiving their cards and even absentee ballots.<\/p>\n Mrs. Collins<\/strong> said, \u201cAs important as the problems and the ethical concerns, the NAACP is asking\u00a0the SOE Office to print the 13,000 former felony names in the paper to allow these individual to VOTE in the Primary (if registered, even in error since so many errors are occurring) and the General Election.<\/p>\n \u201cAdditionally, the office should use the air waves, radio and television to encourage those citizens to know their rights have been restored and they are eligible to register and VOTE<\/strong>! The education of the citizens has been minimal at best, improvement is needed TODAY.<\/p>\n \u201cThe NAACP understands many decision are statewide, but the Hillsborough County Supervisor of Election must assure the citizens of this county that\u00a0he is in charge and is running an efficient office. We are not interested in repeating past problems again,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Mrs. Collins<\/strong> further stated that anyone who has encountered a problem should contact the NAACP at (813) 234-8683, fax, (813) 236-2248, or via\u00a0www.hillsboroughnaacp.org.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A local organization is requesting a meeting with the Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections. The organization said it has received numerous complaints during the first week of Early Voting. Mrs. Carolyn Collins, President of the Hillsborough County Branch NAACP, Ms. Yvette Lewis, the organization\u2019s Political Action Chairman, and members of the Executive Committee sent a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}