“PALM BEACH COUNTY SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS: WENDY SARTORY LINK”

Please Note: There WILL NOT be a protest march in support of former Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher. Spread the word: Stand Down!

However, there is a plague everyone should be concerned about that may merit a future protest march. Read all about that below.

As an aside, Bucher complained about fairness which is quite ironic. Once upon a time the elected officials and City attorney in the City of Lake Worth complained about fairness too. The editor at the Post called what happened in Lake Worth “an offense to democracy.” But Bucher didn’t care. To read all about that very sad and unfair incident please continue reading.

What follows is a blog post from last weekend. And sad to report there is a new plague in the editorial dept. at the Post as well.

Thank You for visiting once again today. Now let’s proceed to the blog post from last Sunday.

A DIRE UPDATE.

There is new information to report, including a scoop about a plague. A plague about a plague one could say. Later on is the dope and lowdown and what you can do TODAY to help solve this reoccurring plague.

But before we proceed, please take another look at the blog post title above ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑

Yes. It’s true. Susan Bucher is gone. No longer the Supervisor of Elections (SOE) in Palm Beach County.

On the news of Bucher’s firing there was a brief protest of sorts a little while ago but now everyone has moved on looking for other things to protest.

The rule is you can’t protest old stuff. It has to be new stuff. That’s the rule. But one can take the show on the road with a protest march but they don’t really work any more in the social media age with young people and Millennials walking into parked cars, incoming traffic and Stop Signs while texting and marching at the same time. It really has become a public safety issue, what some refer to as a plague.

But anyhow, learn more about the new SOE below, the new one with the really cool name, and more about the upcoming municipal elections in Palm Beach County on March 12th too. And. . .

Thank You loyal blog readers for visiting once again today.

Note that below are excerpts posted on this blog — two excerpts from an article published on Sunday, Jan. 27th by the esteemed political journalist George Bennett — news that made the front page, above the fold, in the print edition of The Palm Beach Post.

And also worth noting in that Sunday print edition is the editor(s) at the Post are getting reckless with the word “plague” once again; it’s used three (3) times in the editorial section.

To the editor(s) almost everything they don’t like is a ‘plague’. The use of the word plague has now become an actual plague in itself almost like the plague of balloons in West Palm Beach, a city which of course does not have a beach.

So to please help solve this plague write a letter to the editor today (click on this link for instructions) and say enough is enough about plagues and the derivatives plaguing, plagued, plaguers, and plaguees too. Gee wiz. What if an actual real plague comes along. What will the editor(s) call it? A pestilence?

The overuse of the word plague is really a public health issue.

What if later this year along the Treasure Coast there is another looming threat of plague from blue-green stuff containing microscopic units of β-Methylamino-ʟ-alanine (BMAA)? A reporter at the Post quoted a source who called BMAA, “[A]n arsonist in the human brain”. What if the public is no longer moved to action by the word plague? What will BMAA be called? An affliction? A scourge?

And locally as well here in Central Palm Beach County. What if there is another attack by Muscovy ducks just to the west of the City of Lake Worth? Now that was a real plague! But if the word plague is used too often no one will care and those invasive ducks will just keep on doing whatever they want.

STAND UP! Make your voice heard. Tell the editor to save the word plague for an actual plague!

How? Please scroll back up and learn how to write a letter to the editor. If you hurry your letter can make tomorrow’s print edition.


Thank You for your patience. Now let us proceed. . .


There are sixteen (16) municipalities having elections on March 12th. Is your city, town or village one of them? Find out later in this blog post.

Susan Bucher’s name has finally been officially removed from the Supervisor of Elections website.

Bucher could very well have been removed 4½ years ago if what happened in the City of Lake Worth instead happened in some other municipality like the Village of Wellington, Town of Jupiter, or the City of Boca Raton.

But because it happened in ‘Good Ole Lake Worth’ this incident in August 2014 ended up being mostly forgotten in Palm Beach County. However, shortly afterwards the editor at The Palm Beach Post did pen an editorial with this headline:

Heed state’s advice and stop
illegally tossing ballots

And here is a quote by the Post editor:


“[I]t remains an offense to democracy. So alarming was it to city leaders in Lake Worth that the commission passed a resolution denouncing [Susan] Bucher’s policy and directed the city’s attorney to get involved.”

—Editorial published in The Palm Beach Post on December 2nd, 2014. For more about this incident click on this link.



Now moving forward to 2019.

Datelined Friday, January 25th in the online edition and published in the following Sunday print edition on p. A1, here is news from political journalist George Bennett at the Post; two excerpts:


Facing 16 municipal elections and final negotiations on a massive voting equipment overhaul during her first weeks on the job, newly installed Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor Wendy Link says she’s been studying Florida elections laws and is impressed by the “very professional” staff she inherited.

and. . .

“I have a lot to learn,” Link said at the news conference announcing her appointment.

Later that afternoon, a Friday, Link visited the main elections office in unincorporated West Palm Beach, talked to staff and got a tour from the chief elections deputy, Robin Rorapaugh. Then, Link said, “I stayed here and I read what I could read and then spent the weekend trying to read the statute book . . . I have a lot of things circled and underlined and some question marks.”

Public in PBC: Do you have any questions?

To contact the Supervisor of Elections office:

• Call 561-656-6200.
• E-mail: mailbox@pbcelections.org
• In person, the address is: 240 S. Military Trail in suburban West Palm. Hours are 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. on Monday–Friday.

To look over all sixteen municipalities holding elections on March 12th, including all questions on the ballot, click on this link.

And don’t forget!

The August 2020 Primary and November 2020 General Election are coming up as well starting in just nineteen months!

On the ballot will be Sheriff of Palm Beach County, the Supervisor of Elections, several County Commissioners and many other elected offices state-wide and on the Federal level as well. Use this link to learn more about that.