Mia Moran-Cooper during an earlier visit to the Kanawha County Courthouse. A vocal (and apparently, at times costumed) foe of table games, the former director of the state's problem gambler help network petitioned for the recount Tuesday.Backed by the West Virginia Council of Churches, the former director of the state's Problem Gamblers Help Network has asked Kanawha County to recount, by hand, the more than 46,000 paper ballots cast in the Aug. 11 table games election.
Just 343 votes in the final tally gave Tri-State Racetrack & Gaming Center a win in its bid to host (lottery) casino table games.
As The Associated Press reports, Mia Moran-Cooper "was planning to resign as director of the gamblers help network when she was apparently fired after alleging the state Lottery Commission had micromanaged and interfered with her program."
"Following her departure, Moran-Cooper appeared at anti-table games rallies and in at least one radio ad before the Kanawha County vote," the AP article said.
The Charleston Gazette also details the recount, slated to begin 7:30 a.m. Aug. 29.
So does MetroNews, which offers a separate piece on the reaction from county commissioners.
Update: The Charleston Daily Mail estimates that the cost of a recount could exceed $15,000.
2 comments:
I think they stopped the ballot counting, re-counting and re-re-counting too soon. If she'd had just had a little more time, in addition to finding more ballots, I'll bet Vera McCormick could also have found Jimmy Hoffa's body, the person who was on the grassy knoll in Dallas and the missing conversations from the Watergate tapes. Opportunities squandered. Rats.
If anyone should pay for the recount, it should be the clowns on the county commission that screwed up the whole process in the first place. Carper, McCormick and all the rest are completely incompetent.
3 other counties had this very same election and had no problems doing it.
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