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Mahoning County elections director and clerk suspended
TweetYOUNGSTOWN — Failure to send ballot language to any political entity with an issue on the Nov. 3 ballot led to the unpaid suspensions today of the Mahoning County Board of Elections director and a clerk.
The four-member board agreed to suspend Director Thomas McCabe for three days, and Danielle O’Neill, a clerk who’s responsibilities include preparing ballot language, for five days.
The suspensions will take effect shortly after the board certifies the Nov. 3 election results. That certification usually comes in late November.
McCabe receives about $63,000 annually in salary and O’Neill is paid about $36,000 in base salary annually.
O’Neill failed to send ballot language to any political entity with an issue on the Nov. 3 ballot, said McCabe and Mark Munroe, the board’s vice chairman.
The board sends the language for review as a matter of courtesy, McCabe said.
McCabe said he should have better supervised O’Neill, and said his suspension is fair.
O’Neill and her attorney, John Juhasz, declined to comment today.
Elections officials initially believed county commissioners were the only ones to not receive ballot language for review for a county half-percent sales tax.
The commissioners are having the sheriff’s department investigate the problem to determine if criminal activity occurred.
Elections board member Michael Morley called the investigation “silly.”
For the complete story, read Tuesday’s Vindicator or Vindy.com
Comments
I hope Traficanti is pleased, these two workers got punished like he wanted. And because he whined and complained so loudly we all know what he and Gains were up to. Now everybody knows they intended to change the wording on the ballot to dupe us into thinking it was something it wasnt. So now we know to be very carefull with whatever these county people say. Good work guys I glad you got what you wanted and thanks for the heads up.
'When the game is over, both the king and the pawn go into the same box.' -Italian proverb
Commisioners are misleading, period.
point 1 The body of the resolution never mentions the tax is a continuation so elections employees couldn’t use that word. Why didn't the resolution say continuation? Answer It is not a continuation of a 5 year tax period it is a new tax that will last forever.
point 2 The board is supposed to use the body of the resolution — and not the title — to write the ballot language for a tax issue.. The commisioners knew the word continuation could not, by law, be put into the resolution. Now they are looking for a scapegoat. I believe all of this was a part of a pre-conceived plan to fool the public that this tax was a continuation.
point 3 Either the above mentioned point 2 is correct or the incompetance in the County administative offices is high.
point 4 The secretary of state found nothing wrong with the sales-tax ballot language.
Why doesnt the story tell what the Sec'y of State did?
As always in Mahoning County government; so much stuff, too few fans.