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Neighborhood plans have no teeth
By John Servais · Mon Nov 19, 2007
Did you know there are three public hearings this evening at the council meeting? The Herald had a big to-do article about banning Segways from sidewalks in Sunday’s paper - about as trivial an
The neighborhood-planning wars
By John Servais · Thu Nov 15, 2007
Well, the blog activity sure did drop off after the election. Other blogs are quiet or short - and I also find a lack of energy to put the needed couple hours into a post. Plus some personal is
Ad money madness
By John Servais · Wed Nov 14, 2007
BIAW is being sued for skimming member dues to pay for political ads. CitizenSteve at Washington Outsiders posted the story this morning.
All votes are in
By John Servais · Tue Nov 13, 2007
Final tally from the Auditor. No changes. Sam Crawford increased his margin over Ken Mann. The Auditor and the Canvassing Board will make a few adjustments to the counts and certify the election at 3
Stories from this campaign need airing and discussion
By John Servais · Sun Nov 11, 2007
The truth should come out - eventually. That is not an accepted practice and many people think many important facts and the truths that follow should be forgotten and never revealed. I’m not on
More election results
By John Servais · Sat Nov 10, 2007
A new vote tally has been posted by the Auditor this evening.

Sam Crawford has been reelected. He increased his lead on Ken Mann to 4.4% from 1.2%. Sam has 8,565 votes to Ken’s 7,840, a 725 vo
Election update
By John Servais · Fri Nov 9, 2007
A new vote tally has been posted just now. 41,770 ballots have been counted. Sam Crawford has moved ahead of Ken Mann by 148 votes or just over 1%. This is a trend during two vote tallie
Ballot counting
By John Servais · Thu Nov 8, 2007
Only 4,376 ballots were counted today, leaving 21,785 to count. With 33,288 counted, no races changed leads. Ken Mann slightly increased his lead over Sam Crawford to 1% - a good indicator of e
A watershed night
By John Servais · Wed Nov 7, 2007
11:15 am post and later posts are below the 7:30 am post

7:30 am
Dan Pike walked into the Courthouse rotunda a few minutes after the first voting results showed he had a 58% majority. And pe
Final evolution of candidate listing
By John Servais · Tue Nov 6, 2007
Counting Day for the General Election

6:30 pm
More ballots - for a total of 7,899 ballots returned today. We have at least a modest surge. The total returned is now 36,577 of 102,715 ballots
Looking at endorsements
By John Servais · Mon Nov 5, 2007
Some good info on Ken Mann and Dan Pike at Washington Outsiders website. CitizenSteve has Pike’s comments on the BIA mailer and notes Pike’s endorsement of Ken Mann. It also notes how much of Sam Craw
Each year the numbers are confusing
By John Servais · Sun Nov 4, 2007
The city ballot returns are running about 2% above county returns. With Bellingham voters compromising only 37% of all voters in our county, our rural and small-town neighbors could control the County
Satuday ballot returns
By John Servais · Sat Nov 3, 2007
Satuday ballot returns show 2,502 ballots received today, which should make the total returned to 24,372 out of 103,058 issued. No surge yet. This gives a 23.6% return through today. In the Primary it
Dirty Politics
By John Servais · Fri Nov 2, 2007
Dan Pike has spoken to the issues and to the details and depths of the issues on a continuous basis during this campaign. I’ve heard him and so have thousands of Bellingham voters. You can visit his w
Liberals all too often get in their own way
By Tip Johnson · Wed Oct 31, 2007
I prefer to “label” myself radical, as compared with liberal. I struck upon the notion lobbying in Washington, D.C.

There, I painfully learned that liberals don’t understand the basics of busin
Low voter turnout?
By John Servais · Wed Oct 31, 2007
With such heated campaigns is it possible we could have less than a 50% voter turnout? Well, at the rate of ballot returns as of Tuesday, we are on track for a ballot return of below 40%. That seems i
Ballots with incorrect bar codes
By John Servais · Mon Oct 29, 2007
Who is Royce Buckingham - and why does he think he needs to prevent democratic processes from taking place? This guy - a lawyer in the Prosecuting Attorney’s office - is one of three members of the Ca
Olympia urges Auditor to rethink counting process
By John Servais · Sat Oct 27, 2007
Marian Beddill has posted a good technical description of what happened with our ballots. She uses this serious incident to explain why computerized voting has serious problems.

9 pm - A long d
Forcing Elections Supervisor to protect voter identity
By John Servais · Sat Oct 27, 2007
Is the Herald in denial? Nothing in Friday’s or today’s Herald on the screwup of ballots by the Whatcom County Auditor. For a few hours Friday their website had a very small post which minimized the s
Servais hasn’t endorsed Stan Snapp
By Tip Johnson · Thu Oct 25, 2007
V - Stan Snapp - Don’t ask me why Servais hasn’t endorsed Stan Snapp. Here’s a guy that has worked his way up and tirelessly served his community, who has broad popular support and plent

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