As I have stated often before, there are many comparisons to be made between the Village and the outside world. Yesterday was a day that teemed with these comparisons and lent itself to a great deal of thinking.
To work in the elections is a privilege. It awes me sometimes to think that a nobody like me is entitled to and granted the right to supervise elections, from local to nationwide, in my own little sphere. It amazes me that I am trusted to do this work right and to ensure to the best of my ability that all is done properly with no intimidation or secret processes other than the right to privacy for the voter.
And therein lies the immediate comparison to the Village, much to the detriment of the Village. In our elections there is a great deal of secrecy, of not letting people know what is going on, a lack of assurance of both privacy and transparency. If I tried to skew elections in the Clubhouse yesterday it would have been very difficult and nigh on to impossible. Everything is out in the open; there are double checks and triple checks, poll watchers, people moving about going about their business and yet think of our own Village elections.
In CV there is both no privacy and no transparency. Certain people are constantly looking over people's shoulders, seeing what they are doing, how they are voting. People are carrying ballots around without a partner of the opposing party or candidate and tallyers are not via machine, but by hand and then told not to tally final figures as "someone else will do that". Rules and regulations are not enforced or even purposefully broken, all in the name of insuring victory to the chosen few.
As opposed to that, the elections yesterday were bound by rules to ensure fairness and impartiality. NOTHING was done alone. No one was intimidated or checked to see how one was voting. Seats were provided for those who needed them and all was done to make sure the voters felt comfortable, private, yet near to any help that they needed with no threats or tit for tat demanded. Too bad we cannot say the same for our own elections here when pre time voters were allowed in, incorrect voters were allowed, sole people with biased viewpoints had control of ballots, and the balloting itself was COMPLETELY UNOBSERVED by neutral or opposing parties.
Another thought that came to mind was the population that showed up to vote. First of all, there was an amazing turnout. Each precinct had great working crews and all worked very hard in the onslaught of the voters and dealt with any issues with calm and good humor. But even more important was the population that showed up. I have been working elections for quite some time here in the Village and this election was the most varied in terms of ethnicities and especially ages. The ethnicities is simply a sign of changing and diversifying populations and that was fine, but what was most concerning was the large and growing number of underage CV people who came to vote - HERE WHERE THEY LIVE. Why were 30 year old people voting here? Why are they living here? We saw couples, married and not, single people, and so many under the age of 55 and not even close to it. Obviously, they had either bought or rented and were allowed to do so despite the fact that this is a 55+ community, a SENIOR community. If we are not careful, we will lose that designation and be required to pay regular taxes to which we are exempt and face other issues. Pembroke Pines CV already has had loss of that in many buildings and for sure we do not want that to happen here.
What should be happening is that UCO should be coming up with plans, with possibilities to stop this, with ideas, with pathways to insuring that we remain what we all came here for - a senior 55+ community, for if we had wanted a full service or mixed community we would have bought there in the first place!!! UCO should not be fooling around with foolish and expensive Wi Fi plans that will further insure our financial debacle. They should not be fiddling with plans that might even encourage MORE underage residents to come here and that would be a disaster in more ways than one. UCO has its sights set on the wrong targets and why? Because it all comes from the heads of David Israel, Ed Black and related henchmen.
It is that twisted viewpoint and dangerously wrong thinking that stems from the head, that allows people to spew filth and hatred, calling people "low class Jews", to encourage prejudice in the Village, to favor small loyal and truly bought followers, like the parasites that leech onto big predators of the animal world.
So, people, where are we going from here? Some of my candidates and wishes were successful and some not and I can live with it because I know to the best of my ability it was done properly, impartially and fairly. I know that the issues were discussed, well publicized and nothing held back. But I cannot say the same for here. Here, we have secrecy and lies. Here we have blockages of rights. Here we have nefarious plans to maintain power in the hands of a new oligarchy, a new aristocracy that subscribes to the political theories of fascists and dictators. Here we have Constitutions and Amendments being rewritten in secret and in haste and without public explanation, especially with sufficient explanation, presentation and time to think. Here, it is all WRONG!!! Here, all is a lie.
So we must ring out the warning bells and hope that enough people hear, listen and act. So many people approached me yesterday and asked me if I were planning another go at the seat of the President of UCO and my answer - it is a long time away. Truthfully, I am tired of the garbage going on here, tired of the filth and the curses, tired of the sneakiness and nastiness, tired of the stupidity. Truthfully, there would have to be some great times of thinking, of advising, of shows of support in order to get me to do this once again. But that does not mean that there is any decision and nor does it mean that there are not other positions to be had.
Time will tell but we are running out of time on other issues such as the rewriting of the Articles, of the horrendous Wi Fi issue, of the crappy roads and walkways, or the wastage of so much of our money and of the secrecy of this administration, of the power seized and been given in cases to non elected officials and of the same people on every committee, every media organ of the Village to the exclusion of all else. People, this is what we can act on now. This is what we need to do NOW.
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