Pima County Supervisor Ray Carroll stopped by the Friday Roundtable. Unlike some dead-enders (we’re looking your way, J.T. Waldron), Sugar Ray gives the RTA election a clean bill of health. He says he wouldn’t vote for a sales tax to support Major League Baseball stadiums and appears to now be targeting Kino Hospital and University Physicians. It’s undeniably true that the hospital is costing more than expected to run, but is there really another corporation that would want to come in and run it?
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This article appears in Apr 23-29, 2009.
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Again, as a “dead-ender” these are the questions I ask:
What is the point of doing a recount if there’s no attempt to evaluate the ballots as evidence? This exercise included no forensics and no check of the precinct totals against the poll tape totals.
Why go through all the trouble without a rudimentary check for authenticity? Knowing hard-drives were illegally abducted without a paper trail from the Pima County vault, why would there not be sufficient cause to check ballot paper stock, ink splashes and precinct snapshots?
During the two weeks of this count, I know that the need to verify the authenticity of the ballots was rigorously communicated to Robert Conrad, Terry Goddard, Meg J. Hinchey and Robert Evans. It was somewhat pathetic, especially when Jim March showed up with a microscope.
I think it’s healthy to raise this specter regardless of whatever juvenile remarks are presented in an attempt to “embarrass” someone asking the questions.
Who knows? Maybe in the last moments of this investigation Terry Goddard will “come to God” and decide to check these things.
In this case, isn’t the truth more important than ego?