Comments on: How Do We Assess “The Will of the Voters at this Point?” https://sedonaeye.com/how-do-we-assess-the-will-of-the-voters-at-this-point/ Local News From All Points of View Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:23:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Don T. https://sedonaeye.com/how-do-we-assess-the-will-of-the-voters-at-this-point/comment-page-1/#comment-6878 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 04:28:50 +0000 https://sedonaeye.com/?p=12254#comment-6878 A group of friends met for lunch today and we talked about your newspaper and Amy emailed me the story that we all were talking about and I’m hooked. Even read a dozen others before calling it a day. Noticed that your stories and ads changed while reading. Send me new stories at (removed). Thank you and good luck.

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]]> By: Bob in VOC https://sedonaeye.com/how-do-we-assess-the-will-of-the-voters-at-this-point/comment-page-1/#comment-6876 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:29:08 +0000 https://sedonaeye.com/?p=12254#comment-6876 no offense to those that did but no fan here & rich and judy at least proved why there’s no reason to answer a poll question

congrats to those two for letting others know the poll isn’t legit

i’m with you matt – where’s the sense in this town –

]]> By: Rick and Judy https://sedonaeye.com/how-do-we-assess-the-will-of-the-voters-at-this-point/comment-page-1/#comment-6871 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:56:00 +0000 https://sedonaeye.com/?p=12254#comment-6871 The Red Rock News Poll on Recall appears to be rigged! Judy and I voted Saturday in the Red Rock News poll. To test the reliability of it, we both tried to vote again on Saturday, and the RRN website recognized our computer’s cookies and rejected our second votes, as it should have.

But, this afternoon we thought we would both vote again to be sure…and, sure enough, it accepted our votes again. Have they taken off the daily cookie firewall so that all their buddies can cast second and third votes for a recall?

As multiple voting is possible, it seems to us that the Red Rock News poll is patently dishonest.

]]> By: Warren https://sedonaeye.com/how-do-we-assess-the-will-of-the-voters-at-this-point/comment-page-1/#comment-6870 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:15:34 +0000 https://sedonaeye.com/?p=12254#comment-6870 Nailed it, Matt. Too true and very funny. Thanks for the laugh.

]]> By: Matt https://sedonaeye.com/how-do-we-assess-the-will-of-the-voters-at-this-point/comment-page-1/#comment-6868 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:25:31 +0000 https://sedonaeye.com/?p=12254#comment-6868 DORR, sedona.biz, and a resident in front of Bashas Food Store represent “informed” citizens??? They represent about as much as the idiot poll that the SnoozeNews asks. These people represent vocal minorities and not mainstream opinions. DORR represents rabid Dems, sedona.biz represents itself, Bashas represents people with more time on their hands than the good sense to buy groceries elsewhere. Snippets don’t make for more than sound bites and never should be used as a baseline for policy

]]> By: N. Baer https://sedonaeye.com/how-do-we-assess-the-will-of-the-voters-at-this-point/comment-page-1/#comment-6867 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:12:17 +0000 https://sedonaeye.com/?p=12254#comment-6867 Several methods of assessing the public’s reactions to the two choices the City had was tossed about. Certain individuals decided they wanted a “professional survey,” however the timing of the survey occurred before the public education process was even underway.

If you had been at the February 22 City Council meeting you would have heard the discussion about the discrepancies between the “professional survey” that had been done prematurely, the poll the City did soon after that and the other subsequent polls done by DORR, sedona.biz. and a resident in front of Bashas’s. It was decided that the results indicated that once residents had become properly informed they chose the route transfer. The fact that the newspaper, the Chamber and other key community figures successfully suppressed the facts served their own interests to keep people confused, as many still are.

]]> By: Eddie Maddock https://sedonaeye.com/how-do-we-assess-the-will-of-the-voters-at-this-point/comment-page-1/#comment-6864 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:31:23 +0000 https://sedonaeye.com/?p=12254#comment-6864 If “the will of the people” wasn’t relevant in the “administrative process” of the ADOT 89A route transfer, then why in God’s name did the City Council retain and pay the firm of Behavioral Research to conduct a professional survey?

If the “will” of the four City Council members who approved the route turn-back had been reflected in the results of the professional survey, then at this point in time would the “will of the people” still be deemed unimportant as is pointed out by P. Revere?

]]> By: P. Revere https://sedonaeye.com/how-do-we-assess-the-will-of-the-voters-at-this-point/comment-page-1/#comment-6860 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:53:44 +0000 https://sedonaeye.com/?p=12254#comment-6860 My research on “the will of the people” revealed that this terminology only refers to elections, not administrative procedures. This is because to be efficient, generally the Council has to consider and decide on matters quickly. The 89A route transfer or ADOT process was strictly administrative. Normally, the public would not be involved in administrative processes, but our four new councilors who were elected by a majority of residents because they were dedicated to negotiate further with ADOT, wanted the public (as well as themselves) properly informed prior to their making a decision.

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