Franconia SB Candidate St. John-Cunning disqualified

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Apologies if this is embedded in the School Board threads, but this seems like a big thing:

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/elections/candidatenotice

Evidently 6 signatures on her campaign petition were invalid.

So, it looks like the School Board may be 11-1 after all. The remaining candidate, Pinckney, is GOP-endorsed.

Total BS. The Office of Elections told her she qualified so she stopped collecting signatures. Then a right-wing NRA judge comes in and throws out a page months after her signatures were filed and after THOUSANDS of people have already voted for her.

Sounds like the county Democrats in charge of the Office of Elections need to find more competent people. And unless there's other election improprieties you have no idea how many votes for St. John-Cunning will get tossed.

Get your facts right. Dems are not in charge of the office of elections. The Board of Elections is led by Republicans because there is a Republican governor.

The head of the county office of elections is Kate Hanley, a long-time Democrat, and it was the county board that appointed the registrar who told St. John-Cunning her screw-up was no big deal.

The registrar was hired several years ago. He's non-partisan.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like her opponent is a solid choice - Harvard Law graduate with long history of involvement in FCPS schools and six kids who've attended or are still attending schools in the Edison pyramid.

Yeah, no. Hard pass.

Harvard? No way.

Yale, or GTFO. Snort.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is likely a good thing. If she did the minimum, didn’t ensure she enough valid signatures and addresses on her forms, a lot is to blame on her. Why didn’t do the little extra such as go for 250 valid signatures just in case some are invalidated.

She stopped collecting signatures because they told her she qualified.

Yeah, the bare minimum, 125. If she can’t get this right, what level of incompetence would she bring to the board?

The process is to submit 125 as soon as you get them, and then you keep collecting in case they aren’t accepted. They were accepted and they said she qualified. So she stopped collecting to focus on campaigning.

For school board you have to file early to secure dominant ballot order. That’s why she filed as soon as she got 125.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apologies if this is embedded in the School Board threads, but this seems like a big thing:

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/elections/candidatenotice

Evidently 6 signatures on her campaign petition were invalid.

So, it looks like the School Board may be 11-1 after all. The remaining candidate, Pinckney, is GOP-endorsed.

Total BS. The Office of Elections told her she qualified so she stopped collecting signatures. Then a right-wing NRA judge comes in and throws out a page months after her signatures were filed and after THOUSANDS of people have already voted for her.

Sounds like the county Democrats in charge of the Office of Elections need to find more competent people. And unless there's other election improprieties you have no idea how many votes for St. John-Cunning will get tossed.

Get your facts right. Dems are not in charge of the office of elections. The Board of Elections is led by Republicans because there is a Republican governor.

The head of the county office of elections is Kate Hanley, a long-time Democrat, and it was the county board that appointed the registrar who told St. John-Cunning her screw-up was no big deal.

In each county and city in Virginia, a three-member Electoral Board is responsible for the proper and orderly conduct of all elections held in their locality. This includes preparation of ballots, administration of absentee ballot provisions, the conduct of the election, and the ascertaining of the results of the election. The Electoral Board is also responsible for appointing a General Registrar/Director of Elections to a term of four years (Va. Code § 24.2-109). Each year one member of the Electoral Board is selected for a three-year term by the Circuit Court from a list of recommendations submitted by the local political parties. Two of the members on the Electoral Board represent the political party that cast the highest number of votes at the last preceding gubernatorial election. The third member represents the party that received the next highest amount of votes (Va. Code §24.2-106).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is likely a good thing. If she did the minimum, didn’t ensure she enough valid signatures and addresses on her forms, a lot is to blame on her. Why didn’t do the little extra such as go for 250 valid signatures just in case some are invalidated.

She stopped collecting signatures because they told her she qualified.

Yeah, the bare minimum, 125. If she can’t get this right, what level of incompetence would she bring to the board?

The process is to submit 125 as soon as you get them, and then you keep collecting in case they aren’t accepted. They were accepted and they said she qualified. So she stopped collecting to focus on campaigning.

For school board you have to file early to secure dominant ballot order. That’s why she filed as soon as she got 125.

Meh. She should have collected more signatures before filing and followed the rules. If she can’t handle something that basic, it certainly doesn’t sound like she can be trusted with the oversight of a $3B annual operating budget.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is likely a good thing. If she did the minimum, didn’t ensure she enough valid signatures and addresses on her forms, a lot is to blame on her. Why didn’t do the little extra such as go for 250 valid signatures just in case some are invalidated.

She stopped collecting signatures because they told her she qualified.

Yeah, the bare minimum, 125. If she can’t get this right, what level of incompetence would she bring to the board?

The process is to submit 125 as soon as you get them, and then you keep collecting in case they aren’t accepted. They were accepted and they said she qualified. So she stopped collecting to focus on campaigning.

For school board you have to file early to secure dominant ballot order. That’s why she filed as soon as she got 125.

Meh. She should have collected more signatures before filing and followed the rules. If she can’t handle something that basic, it certainly doesn’t sound like she can be trusted with the oversight of a $3B annual operating budget.

It does highlight laziness on her part not to go the extra mile get a few extra signature pages completed.

[Anonymous]

This is a great news!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is likely a good thing. If she did the minimum, didn’t ensure she enough valid signatures and addresses on her forms, a lot is to blame on her. Why didn’t do the little extra such as go for 250 valid signatures just in case some are invalidated.

She stopped collecting signatures because they told her she qualified.

Yeah, the bare minimum, 125. If she can’t get this right, what level of incompetence would she bring to the board?

The process is to submit 125 as soon as you get them, and then you keep collecting in case they aren’t accepted. They were accepted and they said she qualified. So she stopped collecting to focus on campaigning.

For school board you have to file early to secure dominant ballot order. That’s why she filed as soon as she got 125.

Meh. She should have collected more signatures before filing and followed the rules. If she can’t handle something that basic, it certainly doesn’t sound like she can be trusted with the oversight of a $3B annual operating budget.

You have to file early to get the top spot on the ballot. She filed her signatures with the intention of collecting more if needed, but the office of elections notified her she qualified. Her name was printed on ballots and still is.

[Anonymous]

"with the intention of collecting more if needed"

how do you know? Did you work with her?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is likely a good thing. If she did the minimum, didn’t ensure she enough valid signatures and addresses on her forms, a lot is to blame on her. Why didn’t do the little extra such as go for 250 valid signatures just in case some are invalidated.

She stopped collecting signatures because they told her she qualified.

Yeah, the bare minimum, 125. If she can’t get this right, what level of incompetence would she bring to the board?

The process is to submit 125 as soon as you get them, and then you keep collecting in case they aren’t accepted. They were accepted and they said she qualified. So she stopped collecting to focus on campaigning.

For school board you have to file early to secure dominant ballot order. That’s why she filed as soon as she got 125.

Meh. She should have collected more signatures before filing and followed the rules. If she can’t handle something that basic, it certainly doesn’t sound like she can be trusted with the oversight of a $3B annual operating budget.

You have to file early to get the top spot on the ballot. She filed her signatures with the intention of collecting more if needed, but the office of elections notified her she qualified. Her name was printed on ballots and still is.

[Anonymous]

She HAD more signatures, but was told she didn’t need to submit more than the 125 because she already qualified. Nobody gets just the 125.

Also, the Republicans loved Eric Spicer when he was appointed.
https://fairfaxgop.org/new-general-registrar-drives-reform-at-fairfax-county-office-of-elections/

[Anonymous]

It’s interesting how unconcerned you are with the 3000 Franconia residents who have already voted. The Democrats’ votes did not count due to an error by the registrar. Because of the questionable timing, they never had the opportunity to write in Ms. St. John-Cunning. You can’t be OK with this just because the SB has 12 Democrats. Supporting basically canceling votes should have nothing to do with the makeup of the SB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s interesting how unconcerned you are with the 3000 Franconia residents who have already voted. The Democrats’ votes did not count due to an error by the registrar. Because of the questionable timing, they never had the opportunity to write in Ms. St. John-Cunning. You can’t be OK with this just because the SB has 12 Democrats. Supporting basically canceling votes should have nothing to do with the makeup of the SB.

I'm OK with it because I moved, and started a family, in Fairfax, for the schools. The extremists running Fairfax Democrats are ruining our investment.

[Anonymous]

Did Cunning do anything cunning?

[Anonymous]

Please let us never have a full D school board again. It has been disastrous for my kids’ education. (A full R school board would be just as disastrous.)

We need to stop voting on party lines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She HAD more signatures, but was told she didn’t need to submit more than the 125 because she already qualified. Nobody gets just the 125.

Also, the Republicans loved Eric Spicer when he was appointed.
https://fairfaxgop.org/new-general-registrar-drives-reform-at-fairfax-county-office-of-elections/

So are you suggesting Spicer lulled her into believing her error was harmless just so a judge could toss her out later? It sounds like mistakes were made, first by the candidate and then by the registrar, and now they finally have to deal with the consequences.

Bryan Graham and the FCDC would have been the first in line to challenge a R candidate had they become aware of a similar error.