This sounds more like a third-world country where a dictator is running the elections.
Overriding the majority of our City Council (Commissioners Anthony “Skip” Scirocco, Michele Madigan, and John Franck), a dozen members of the Saratoga Springs Charter Commission have decreed that the election for our city’s Constitution will be held May 30, one-day after a three-day holiday.
Doesn’t this smell rotten to you? These people are forcing the city’s first-ever special election to be held on a day few people are likely to even be aware there is an election.
Their rationale is that Saratoga residents can’t possibly learn about their city manager proposal in nine months, although they claim that we can be educated in only the four months before the May election. Confusing and impossible to believe, isn’t it?
There must be another reason they’re hiding the election. Most likely, they don’t believe they can win in the fall, so they’re trying an end run around the voters. As Commissioner Franck said: It’s voter suppression.
We need a fair election with as many people voting as possible for the future of our city.
We need the election to be a part of the November general election when people plan ahead to go to the polls or get an absentee ballot.
JIM CHATFIELD
Saratoga Spring
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