A Republican finally forces an end to a year’s worth of arguing among Democrats

[Kali]

this is a little misleading if you actually know Ray Caroll and his record.
Yay Ray and Bill Risner and the Democrats who followed through!

A Republican finally forces an end to a year’s worth of arguing among Democrats

Republican Pima County Supervisor Ray Carroll forced three Democratic colleagues last week to do what their party and its lawyer couldn’t accomplish in a year of arguing and court challenges.

Supervisors Richard Elías, Sharon Bronson and Ramón Valadez voted to obey a court order to open county records to ensure ballots were counted accurately in 2006 and will be correct for this year’s primary and general elections.

Thanks to Carroll, we’ll either learn those elections were counted honestly, even if procedures were sloppy ... or that one or more rogue employees of the county’s Elections Division actually changed some vote results.

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Carroll, backed by 60 or so concerned citizens (most of them Democrats), began using parliamentary tactics last Tuesday to force the board to drop the appeal. After a couple of hours of motions, citizen outbursts, testimony and several recesses, he succeeded.

more at http://www.azbiz.com/articles/2008/01/11/opinion/columnists/steve_emerine/doc4787b11c3ba09230696676.txt