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Author    Post   untanglingwebs El Supremo Absentee ballots Flood of applications deserves suspicions and scrutiny Publication: Flint Journal, The (MI) Edition: THE FLINT JOURNAL FIRST EDITION Date: July 30, 2004 Page: A14 Record Id: 0412706684 Author: JOURNAL EDITOR 15 of 22 matches 348 words Flint's Eric Mays is once again making himself the nemesis of a city clerk at election time, turning in more than 1,000 absentee ballot applications in the final days before Tuesday's vote. The timing leaves scarcely a chance to check for the possibility of irregularities, even though signs of them are blatant. Local officials, including City Clerk Inez Brown, are well within the scope of their duties to apply scrutiny and skepticism. The sheer number is not the only Guard absentee ballots Publication: Flint Journal, The (MI) Edition: THE FLINT JOURNAL FIRST EDITION Date: August 3, 2003 Page: A18 Record Id: 0412206074 Author: JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD 16 of 22 matches 201 words Flint City Clerk Inez M. Brown is not abiding any shenanigans with absentee ballots in Tuesday's mayoral primary. While some self-styled "activists" complain, most voters should appreciate her iron stance. Pressure is on Brown over a rarely invoked section of the voter law that says the clerk or her staff must personally pick up absentee ballots from the homes of people who are unable to mail the ballots or deliver them to City Hall, either in person, through a relative or Absentee ballots may strap clerk Publication: Flint Journal, The (MI) Edition: THE FLINT JOURNAL FIRST EDITION Date: July 31, 2003 Page: A06 Record Id: 0412202044 Author: Christofer Machniak JOURNAL STAFF WRITER 17 of 22 matches 572 words A little-known section of the absentee voter law is stirring controversy between a political activist and City Clerk Inez M. Brown. Under state law, the clerk is required to pick up absentee ballots if voters are unable to mail them or deliver them to City Hall personally or through a relative or someone with whom they live. The deadline for requests to pick up ballots is 5 p.m. Friday, but Brown said cutbacks in her office have made picking them up difficult, Sat Jun 06, 2015 7:34 am  untanglingwebs El Supremo Without a doubt Eric Mays has dominated the improper ballot issue in Flint for years. Both Clerk Inez Brown and former prosecutor Arthur Busch had to deal with allegations of rigged absentee ballots. Both offices threatened legal action. Mays campaign efforts were jokingly referred to as his allowing the "dead to vote". Matt Zacks of the former news magazine, the Uncommon Sense, printed a comic of Mays going through a cemetery getting names for his ballots. The timing of the ballots was always timed to pressure the office. Mays, Project Vote and Acorn were all sent to the Secretary of State offices to report irregularities by Brown. Brown successfully fought off a complaint by Project Vote to the state. Sat Jun 06, 2015 7:45 am    Display posts from previous:   All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First

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