Ida Chong
Recall Application
Rejected
In a decision that has Fight HST organizer Bill Vander Zalm spitting nails, the application to begin the Ida Chong recall process has been rejected.
Acting chief electoral officer Craig James, says the application exceeds the 200 word limit allowed under legislation.
It seems that words like HST and MLA are not actually counted as two words, but rather six if you are applying the means of word counting used by Mr. James.
The group can resubmit an application however each of the 150 people registered to collect signatures during the recall campaign will have to resubmit their applications.
Comment: Rules are rules, and the organizers should be clear on the word count issue. However, I think Mr. Craig has done nothing but throw gasoline onto the fire. If he hasn't noticed there are a lot of p#$$@d off people these days, and most levels of government are in their sights.
JonMapleRidge said...
ReplyDeleteElections BC updated their website and created the PDF on November 24th!
The details of the word limit is posted at http://www.elections.bc.ca/index.php/referenda-recall-initiative/.
BUT, look at the Google Cache for this page by searching google for: http://www.elections.bc.ca/index.php/referenda-recall-initiative/. It will show you http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.elections.bc.ca%2Findex.php%2Freferenda-recall-initiative%2Frecall%2F&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&client=firefox-a&rlz=1R1GGGL_en___CA313
There was no mention of the word limit on November 23rd! They added this on the 24th.
The PDF links to: http://www.elections.bc.ca/docs/rcl/Word-Count-Proponent-Statement.pdf
Look at the date on the PDF, it was created November 24th!
http://www.elections.bc.ca/docs/rcl/
There are more details listed at http://www.donewithdalton.com/2010/11/25/proof-that-elections-bc-added-number-of-words-in-proponent-statement-on-november-24/