Greater Egg Harbor Regional
High School District
Public Question:
RESOLVED, that the Board of
Education of the Greater Egg Harbor
Regional High School District, in the
County of Atlantic, is hereby authorized
to raise by taxation the sum of
$24,764,841 for GENERAL FUNDS for
the ensuing school year 2009-2010.
The portion of this tax levy allocated to
the taxpayers of Mullica Township is
$2,156,312.22.
Our PK-8 local district public question, however, reads exactly as follows on the ballot:
Mullica Township
Local School District
Public Question
RESOLVED, that there should
be raised for General Funds
$X, XXX, XXX for the ensuing
school year 2009-2010.
Our local district appears to want us voters to approve and hand them a blank check! These administrators earn 6-figure salaries!
Signed,
A non-gullible, non-approving\taxpayer
Moderator comment:
PLEASE NOTE, THE ABOVE WAS SENT IN BY SOMEONE WHO RECEIVED AN ABSENTEE BALLOT AND SINCE THEN, DUPLICATE BALLOTS HAVE BEEN ISSUED WITH THE CORRECTED AMOUNT. THIS WAS VERIFIED WITH THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS AND WAS AN ERROR FROM THE PRINTER OF THE BALLOTS AND NOT THE MULLICA TOWNSHIP SCHOOL BOARD NOR THE ATLANTIC COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS. THERE WERE ONLY SEVEN (7) ABSENTEE BALLOTS SENT TO MULLICA TOWNSHIP IN ALL AND ALL HAVE BEEN SENT NEW, DUPLICATE BALLOTS WHICH CLEARLY HAVE THE CORRECT AMOUNT AND STATE THEY ARE DUPLICATE BALLOTS. To the poster, the Gadfly thanks you for the heads up, however it was looked into and verified last week.
2 comments:
The question remains did any of the absentee voters vote before they received their corrected ballot and would their vote be declared invalid since they had voted on an incorrect amount (XXX,XXX) and should they vote a second time using the corrected version?
I called the Board of Elections today regarding this very question and one application and one ballot is how it goes, period. If someone sent in both ballots, the one with the monetary amount would be counted and the other one not counted and listed as a duplicate ballot. Two ballots cannot be submitted, just like two applications for the same person cannot be submitted. If someone accidentally applied and application twice, it would show up on their records that a ballot was sent out.
The Board prefers you use the corrected duplicate version if you haven't already mailed in your other ballot. If you did mail in the other ballot, the corrected one is clearly marked "DUPLICATE BALLOT" and only one vote will count.
The ballots are not counted until the day of the election.
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