Special election to be held in the Dover School Board - Faulty Machines

For those who aren't aware about the Dover School Board (and they're back in the news again), the old Dover School board pushed Intelligent Design in the biology classes and were taken to court (courts just said you can't teach it in biology - constitutional violation). Democrats ran 8 candidates against the incumbant ID republican school board members and won. WON EVERY SINGLE RACE and replaced everyone but the one republican on the school board not up for re-election.

The new Dover School board said they would let the next ruling be heard (it came out today) but would persue it no further and would stop ID teaching in Biology (they were ok if an elective religious class wanted to teach it).

Well I was searching the local York PA newspaper (largest town near Dover) and found this:

http://www.ydr.com/doverbiology/ci_3286744

Candidates start anew


Two sides in the Dover Area School Board runoff will begin campaigning again.

By MICHELLE STARR
Daily Record/Sunday News

Dec 7, 2005 — With a list of 817 voters who cast their ballots on Nov. 8, James Cashman and challenger Bryan Rehm will return to campaigning for a seat on the Dover Area School Board.
Nearly a month after the election, the county's elections office determined a machine malfunctioned. The discovery prompted a county judge to rule for a special election.

Judge John Kennedy said last week that people who voted at Friendship Community Church, where the faulty machine was, are allowed to vote again on Jan. 3. They will be able to choose Rehm or Cashman, and the totals from the revote will add to tallies from other precincts from the original election to determine a winner.

"I think under the circumstances (the revote is) as fair as it can be," Rehm said.

Dover CARES will continue to back Rehm, he said, and will be there to help contact voters.

Tammy Kitzmiller, a Dover CARES member, said the group is weeding out Cashman supporters in order to target possible votes for Rehm. The group does not have a specific plan to campaign yet, she said

The worse that could happen is the Dover School board is now 7-2 in favor of no ID in biology (well they can't). But at least the school board won't push this to the Supreme Court.

I'm going to find out a way I could contribute to this special election because it turns out the democrat is an alumni of my alma mater - Lebanon Valley College.