PETITION TO REPEAL CARTER COUNTY SALES TAX1. In March of 2004 the petition drive begin.2. We found a lot of people not registered to vote who wanted to sign petition, we asked Tracy HarrisAdministrator of Elections if we got registration forms for them to register would they be counted if they signed the petition. She told us she would count everyone that his or her card was turned in bythe petition date. But she did not do this, "after" the word come down that this issue was not to reachthe referendum.3. By September 3, 2004 there had been 5,365 people that had signed the petition. It was very easyto see what the will people was.4. September 3, 2004 was the date the petition was to be turned in, to be judged by ElectionCommission.5. After checking petition Tracy Harris Administrator of Elections said (see the two local news papers) the petition lacked 100 qualified signors for the petition to go to Referendum. She said that2916 signors checked out to be good signors (see petition report Petition Number Tax). She said atthe beginning of the drive we would need 3,015 good signors.6. When Tracy Harris was forced to do a second count she found 171 signors that she haddisqualified on first count that were a qualified signor. There were hundreds of signors that she saidsomeone else signed for them and disqualified their names, we polled 37 of the hundreds and foundthe signors, and they gave a sworn affidavit that they signed the petition and that the signature on petition was their signature. (2916+171+37=3124) These are the signors she said some third partysigned for them. If we would have had the time and money we could have found 3 or 4 hundred or more of these signors. The signors on petition were never counted as to the deciding of the issue, if they had been counted the issue would have went to a referendum.7. Judge Richard Johnson said at the beginning of the legal proceedings that he was going to followthe law, which he did not do. If he had done so the voters of Carter County would have decided thisissue. These are the ones that took the people right to vote away, George and Kathy Dugger, TracyHarris Administrator of Elections and Sidney Davidson, Millard Garland, Dean Perry, BudWhitehead, and Leonard Lewis the Election Commissioners also Judge Richard Johnson andAssistant State Attorney General William Helou.8. The Tennessee Assistant Attorney General interpretation said petitioning meant that anyone cantalk to the people representing them. He said any ruling the Election Commission makes is a trueruling and they cannot be challenged. He also said a petition could be taken on any issue, but it will be left up the local Election Commission if it is approved. And that a petition like ours probablywould be disapproved. He also said anyone could say anything they wanted to any official but thatthey probably would not listen to anything that was said. If you have the power you can interpretanything, anyway you want no matter if it is correct or not. Get a dictionary and try to interpret thedefinition of a dictator or dictators No matter what you think of this issue, lookup what the worddemocracy means.
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