Election Commission: Post 3

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April 22, 2005

Election Commission: Post 3

I'm not necessarily sharing an approach on the subject with County Commissioner William Cotton (District 4), but I too am wondering why the site for the new Election Commission offices needs to be in an industrial park.

It seems to me that land in Centre South should be used for attracting some of those high-tech manufacturing jobs we keep hoping for; hey, the Election Commission keeps firing people and running them off, so don't get your hopes up for a job with them. (Full disclosure: I wouldn't object to holding a position there in an IS capacity, as I've bitched and moaned for years about their website going down and then coming back online as a pitiful skeleton of its former self, so maybe I'm just scaring off competition.)

I'd bet that there would be an outcry if, say, one of the Courts was slated to move out of downtown and into a commercial or manufacturing zone, but Commissioner Cotton and I seem to be the only ones who care about the Election Commission doing just that. I feel that the local elections office should enjoy the same stature in the public mind as does a courthouse or municipal building.

I do recognize that the HCEC's current site is inadequate. The internal layout and the atrocious lack of parking certainly need to be remedied. I simply hope that the best choice is made regarding a new location, and that if the Amnicola site is a "done deal," then all possible effort is given to ensuring the office's accessibility and community prominence.

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