Balloting Issues at Dartmouth...

As you may recall, I was involved in organizing a little protest April 1st at Dartmouth, regarding an April Fools demand to vote in the Dartmouth Trustee Election, in response to Dartmouth students voting illegally in NH elections this past November. Ed Naile, who has taken the lead with glee, has recruited quite a number of ballots completed by CNHT members and and has sent the following email to the Dartmouth Review:

From: "Ed Naile"
To: dartlog@dartreview.com
Subject: Coalition of NH Taxpayers
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:13:12 -0400


To The Dartmouth Review.

Greetings from the Coalition of NH Taxpayers:

Sorry you are having so many alumni report questions regarding Trustee ballots.

Since The Coalition of NH Taxpayers took matters into our own hands on April 1 we have assembled 150 ballots and sent them to the Alumni relations Office. They should arrive there tomorrow.

We used genuine NH Guest Receipts from a NH restaurant which we believe, after carefully reviewing our Bylaws, to be just as valid for voting in our Dartmouth Trustee Election as Dartmouth students Texas or Pennsylvania drivers licenses, Dartmouth ID cards, and letters from the Admissions Office are in NH elections for Governor and Congress.

Our favored candidates are Peter Robinson and Todd Wyniki. In fact, those two are the only Trustee Candidates to receive any Coalition votes. How about that!

In any case, we hope you will stop by the Alumni Relations Office about the time they get their mail and make sure our ballots are received. Obviously we plan on challenging any attempt at disqualifying our legitimate right to vote in NH elections even if we have to come back to Hanover next April 1 to claim our equitable rights.

Our good friend, Bud Fitch, at the NH Attorney General's Office seems to have a very broad, evolving, unique, amorphous, and vague interpretation of who can vote in NH which we are sure will include our ballots so it should not be a problem.

Thank you for the excellent coverage of our April 1 "protest" on your web site.

Ed Naile
Chairman CNHT

Ed and I have very complimentary senses of humor, apparently. BTW: The administration has extended voting in the Trustee Election until May 6th, so you can still vote. When asking for a ballot at the Alumni Relations office, remember to bring proof of matriculation, like a baseball cap or rugby shirt with the Big Green "D" on it, a fraternity shirt or ring, maybe a campus parking ticket, a Monday Morning Hangover or a near fascimile of a holier-than-thou liberal attitude (looking down your nose at members of politically incorrect demographic groups suffices).