Hokey Pokey Elections in the Mat-Su?
Contributed by Richard Stoffel
The Hokey Pokey song and dance has been an iconic highlight of fun and antics embraced and celebrated by children and adults for generations. The dance involves the participants in a line or circle putting their right hands, left hands, right feet, left feet, and then their whole body in and out in a playful manner while singing: “You put your right hand in, you put your right hand out... You do the Hokey Pokey and you turn yourself around...” and so on. There is even a National Hokey Pokey Day on the 8th of September.
So, what does the Hokey Pokey have to do with Dominion Machines and our Mat-Su Borough Clerk Lonnie McKetchnie? Did you know that Dominion Machines, the main sponsor of the Alaska Association of Municipal Clerks, proudly boasts their active participation in our Alaska elections since 1998? The computer programmed ballot manipulation, low borough voter turnouts, borough election laws transgressed and broken by borough officials, and the eroded and violated trust of We the Borough Residents are overwhelming telltale signs of Mat-Su Borough Clerk Lonnie McKetchnie playing Hokey Pokey with our voice, our liberty, our ballots.
For years, many residents attended borough meetings, tried working with the clerk and borough officials—and to what end? Clerk McKetchnie is determined that we will dance her Hokey Pokey election dance and allow her to break any borough code law when and how she chooses.
Here’s a Hokey Pokey tune loaded with Mat-Su Borough election truth:
You put your ballot in
Dominion checks your ballot out
You put your ballot in
The computer program shakes it all about Machines do the Hokey Pokey
as they turn your votes around
That’s what the machines are all about The HAND COUNT ONLY law is voted in Clerk McKetchnie wants it out
The NO MACHINES law is voted in
And Clerk McKetchnie shakes
the Assembly all about
They do the budget Hokey Pokey
and subvert the borough law
That’s what the Canon scanners
are all about
Our borough election code laws are recorded in ordinances passed by the Borough Assembly. So what is an ordinance? An ordinance (and memorandum) refers to a law made by a municipality, any authority or authoritative body.
www.definitions. uslegal.com/o/ordinance.