Joe the Nerd Ferraro
<div><p>Owner and operator of http://www.FindANerd.com Joe the Nerd Ferraro is a husband, dad, computer nerd, and a general pain to the local government in Audubon, PA.</p></div>
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Pennsylvania Voters Short-Changed By County Commissioner Voting System
The rallying cry in the 1770’s was “Taxation Without Representation”. They fought a war over it and THEY won. But we are still losing.
In Pennsylvania, many counties have a bizarre system to guarantee representation of a minority party. The counties have 3 commissioners and have written the laws to stipulate all 3 cannot be from the same political party. On the face of it that is fine and good.
However, in practice, this needs some tuning. The reality is voters can only vote for 2 commiss...
29 Aug, 2013
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