Monday, November 12, 2012

Hinds Election Commissioner fires back at Graham & CL

Hinds County District 4 Election Commissioner fired off a letter to Clarion=Ledger reporter Terricha Bradley-Phillips. The reporter wrote a story Saturday stating Supervisor Robert Graham was "investigating" alleged complaints about the elections last week. Earlier post. She also reported Election Commissioner Jermel Clark questioned whether the machines were tampered with after he was clobbered in his re-election bid by 65%-35%. Mrs. Cochran wrote:

"I am Connie Cochran, Election Commissioner for Hinds County District 4.

I am totally amazed about the article that was reported in the Clarion Ledger this morning.

First, the fact that a sitting Election Commissioner, Jermal Clark, does not know the proper procedure for filing an election complaint, is no surprise to me. After 8 years on the Commission, he should know a formal complaint is not filed with the Hinds County Board of Supervisors. Instead it should be filed with the Hinds County Circuit Clerk.

Statute 23-15-951 addresses the procedure for filing a petition of contest. ".....a person desiring to contest the election of another person returned as elected to any office within any county, may, within twenty (20) days after the election, file a petition in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county, setting forth the grounds upon which the election is contested; and the clerk shall thereupon issue a summons to the party whose election is contested................"

I wish to inform you that Jermal Clark observed all functions of the logic and accuracy testing on the voting machines for Clark's district, done by his machine technician. He helped proof all the ballot tapes from each master machine in his district, for accuracy. After the process was completed, security seals were placed on each machine and the serial numbers from those seals were recorded. The machines were then placed in a room and locked. They were not touched again until Clark's technician delivered the machines to the voting precincts or were picked up by the precinct poll manager.

Before the election began on November 6, all managers across the county were to record the seal number of each machine in their respective precinct.

There was also a "reset" tape attached to the top of all voting machines that stated the machine was set to pre-election, with the public count of that machine. Each poll manager is trained to contact the Election Commission office, prior to 7 AM the day of the election to report any discrepancies. We received no calls concerning this issue!

There is also an audit log in each machines that can tell everything that was done on the machine on any given day. A reprint of each vote cast on the machine can be printed, in random order, so the voter's identity is protected.

I guess I am to understand that because Clark did not win any of the precincts in his district, he believes the machines were tampered with?

As far as Graham and his statement "We're counting affidavits and absentees now, and the process may not finish until next week", who is we? The last time I checked he was not an Election Commissioner! He is a supervisor, and as such, has absolutely no say in the process of conducting an election, other than dealing with the budget. He can observe the process, but that is it.

As has been said many times by the Board of Supervisor members, when there have been grievances brought to them by Election Commissioners, they have no jurisdiction over the Election Commission.

And, are the other members of the Board of Supervisors aware of Graham's actions? Does there not need to be a vote by them for him to act on their behalf?

The Election Commissioners are elected officials of Hinds County, we are in charge of conducting the election.

Graham has made several misleading statements the last week or so, and obviously does not understand the processes involved, from the Circuit Clerk's office or Election Commission office.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

OH Snap!

Benny053 said...

OMG to the nth degree!!!! Too funny!!!!

Anonymous said...

Jermal Clark issued the following response: "Yo mamma!"

Anonymous said...

YOU GO GIRL (CONNIE)!! RUN THE ENTIRE DAMN BOARD, EXCEPT FISHER, OUT OF THE STATE. NUTHIN' "FUNNY" ABOUT THEIR ANTICS.

Anonymous said...

Jermal Clark's opponent, Santore Bracey, listed "Miskelly Furniture" and "Jesus" as two of his Facebook Likes. So not only did Jermal get trounced, he got trounced by a guy who pandered to the Rankin County Tea Party through social media.

When Jermal couldn't distinguish himself with party affiliation, race, or Bennie Thompson's blessing, all he had left to run on was his record and his reputation. Unfortunately for Jermal, those two things were only good enough to get him 35% of the vote.

Shadowfax said...

Not at sure what Facebook, Jesus, Rankin Tea Party or Miskelly Furniture had to do with the election, but, sounds to me like Ms Cochran set the matter straight while politely reminding all of us what buffoons are up in the wheelhouse.

Anonymous said...

um, is jermal the one that she said is just to stupid to grasp what his job is?

Kingfish said...

Yes and what everyone forgets is before she said that he got up there and for 30 minutes straight said she was trying to rig the ballot and sabotage the election. Of course no one says anything about that.

Jermel screwed up the ballot and the absentees and managed to put himself in the headlines. His own party sent out a press release criticizing him and the rest of the commission. He did this one to himself just like Bobbie Graves was too stupid to file her qualifying papers on time and then whined how the law shouldn't apply to her. Let me see, three commissioners gone, I suspect the commission will be out of the news next year.

Shadowfax said...

Jermel be meetin' wif Kennuff and Hat-Woman when they all get up this morning.

Anonymous said...



Hinds County ... A World of Difference!

Anonymous said...

"Jermel be meetin' wif Kennuff and Hat-Woman when they all get up this morning. "

I doubt any of those 3 gets up before noon.

Anonymous said...

That Jesus Facebook page is intriguing, but the last status update is over 2000 years old.

Anonymous said...

Enough about the fake lieutenant & the Hinds "Jerry Curl" election idiot .

Where are the Fox 40 girls ? I miss Laura Britt.
It's time for a hottest reporter poll !!!!!

Anonymous said...

After listening to prior comments made by the sore loser, it appears that he didn't need to be in the position that he has held for the period of time that he did.

KaptKangaroo said...

Jermel is a fool. I'm waiting for the next BOS meeting! There are plans to film it right???


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