Buddy, Buddy, Buddy: Elections Office knew of missing ballots a month ago
January 27, 2009 at 8:40 am by Wayne GarciaToday’s installment of the St. Petersburg Times deconstructing former Hillsborough Supervisor Buddy Johnson goes like this:
Hillsborough elections officials knew about missing ballots that could swing a close Temple Terrace race a month earlier than previously disclosed.
The discovery came during the week of Dec. 12, when a temporary worker found 440 ballots from two precincts in a ballot box stored in a warehouse, according to a memo obtained Monday by the St. Petersburg Times.
Although a top deputy for then-Elections Supervisor Buddy Johnson was told about the find, nothing was said publicly until mid January.
So, why did nobody say anything? They apparently was a’feared of ol’ Buddy:
…As she made the announcement Jan. 16, Busansky didn’t know the ballots had actually been discovered a month earlier.
“My theory is the staff was afraid to say anything until Buddy left,” Busansky said Monday.
