Supervisor of Elections Palm Beach County - Even complaints are political

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It's always the cities that have referendums whose results are unpopular with city governments that give Supervisor of Elections, Susan Bucher, a hard time.  Now it's Palm Beach Gardens.  David Levy, councilman, has never seen a development project he didn't like and certainly term limits are something for which he did not advocate. Lots of politicians want to be in there for life--it's more difficult voting out an incumbent.  Unfortunately, the voters thought differently in PBG and voted in term limits by 79%. Now Palm Beach Gardens is balking at the supervisor's bill for this election.

The last time, it was Lake Worth and the General Obligation Bond. Lake Worth didn't balk at the cost which at the time was estimated to be approximately $5,500 as the majority of the expenses were borne by the County Supervisor of Elections as there were several candidates and another issue on this August 26, 2014 primary election. But our city complained about this initiative being defeated, losing by 50.40% of the vote, and went after poll volunteers and those at some of our precincts for not counting 14 votes because of various issues like not signing their ballot. Also the city didn't like having to pay a charge of $400 for copies and refused to pay the SOE's legal fees.

When elections go their way, especially city backed initiatives, there are never any complaints about the Supervisor of Elections Office by any city government for anything.