All Cherokee Freedmen need to exercise their voting rights.
Released late Saturday night, unofficial returns show 8,787 people cast ballots at the 38 precincts across the tribe's 14-county jurisdiction.
Of the 15,000 votes cast in the June 25 general election, about 8,000 votes were cast in person.
Along with the 8,787 votes cast at precincts, preliminary figures show more than 1,100 votes were cast during early walk-in voting, an increase of about 100 votes.
Two additional walk-in voting days are scheduled for Thursday and Oct. 6 for freedmen voters only.
The election commission did not announce how many of the almost 12,000 absentee ballots requested were returned.
Non-freedmen voters were required to turn in their ballots by yesterday, while freedmen absentee voters have until Oct. 8.
In accordance with a federal district court order, the Cherokee Nation Election Commission will not count any ballots in the race between former chief Chad Smith and Tribal Councilor Bill John Baker until Oct. 8.
The ballots, ballot boxes and voting machines are locked in the commission's vault in the interim. Results from the original election, held in June, were called into question by both campaigns, with each candidate named the winner at least once.
The tribe's Supreme Court ultimately invalidated the June election, ruling that the results could not be verified with mathematical certainty.
Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20110926_12_A8_TAHLEQ890370
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Monday, September 26, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Cherokee Nation Supreme Courts Orders NEW Principal Chief Election
BREAKING NEWS
Cherokee Nation Supreme Court justices have ordered for a new principal chief election.
The order will be given to the election commission, who then must turn it over to Chief Chad Smith. It is the chief's responsibility to set a date for the new election.
Will Smith follow the LAW?
Cherokee Nation Supreme Court justices have ordered for a new principal chief election.
The order will be given to the election commission, who then must turn it over to Chief Chad Smith. It is the chief's responsibility to set a date for the new election.
Will Smith follow the LAW?
Friday, June 24, 2011
Cherokee Elections: Smith outgains Bill John Baker
In the race for Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, it looks like the strongarm tactics Smith took in the healthcare industry paid off....
Incumbent Chad Smith has raised approximately $72,000 more than his challenger, Tribal Councilor Bill John Baker, in this year’s campaign for the principal chief seat, with most of his funds stemming from donors listed as executives.
After analyzing campaign financial disclosure reports, the Cherokee Phoenix categorized donors into the categories of legal/lawyer, health/medical, small business owners, educators, executives, administrators, retired and “other.”
Overall, Smith’s donations totaled $244,649.86, with $147,134.14 coming from executives and $29,525.26 (ANY WONDER?) from health/medical. Contributions from “others” totaled $27,195.49, while administrators donated $16,361 to his re-election bid. Legal/lawyer donations totaled $12,433.97, while $11,335 came from retirees and $665 from educators.
Baker’s donations total $172,314.75, with most coming from small business owners at $57,018.61. Retirees have given the challenger $36,561.85, while “others” have given $34,889.18. Legal/lawyer donations total $32,013.51, and health/medical donations total $8,850. Educators have given $2,787.70, with executives giving $193.90. Also, Baker loaned his campaign $115,018.
TIME FOR A NEW CHIEF....
Incumbent Chad Smith has raised approximately $72,000 more than his challenger, Tribal Councilor Bill John Baker, in this year’s campaign for the principal chief seat, with most of his funds stemming from donors listed as executives.
After analyzing campaign financial disclosure reports, the Cherokee Phoenix categorized donors into the categories of legal/lawyer, health/medical, small business owners, educators, executives, administrators, retired and “other.”
Overall, Smith’s donations totaled $244,649.86, with $147,134.14 coming from executives and $29,525.26 (ANY WONDER?) from health/medical. Contributions from “others” totaled $27,195.49, while administrators donated $16,361 to his re-election bid. Legal/lawyer donations totaled $12,433.97, while $11,335 came from retirees and $665 from educators.
Baker’s donations total $172,314.75, with most coming from small business owners at $57,018.61. Retirees have given the challenger $36,561.85, while “others” have given $34,889.18. Legal/lawyer donations total $32,013.51, and health/medical donations total $8,850. Educators have given $2,787.70, with executives giving $193.90. Also, Baker loaned his campaign $115,018.
TIME FOR A NEW CHIEF....
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
John Cornsilk For Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation; Chad Smith Must GO
John Cornsilk, a friend of Original Pechanga's Blog and from years of reading his website and correspondence is now running for Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. It's past time that Chad "Our Slaves were well treated" Smith be voted out of office. . We will continue to promote this change of leadership. Follow us on Twitter: @opechanga
We've previously discussed Chad Smith, an inductee into Original Pechanga's Blog's HALL of SHAME HERE HERE and
HERE
HERE
John William Cornsilk
For Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
For All your Cherokee Rights The Right Cherokee for the Job.
See my platform as your Chief here
http://www.cornsilks.com/aplatform.html
For Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
For All your Cherokee Rights The Right Cherokee for the Job.
See my platform as your Chief here
http://www.cornsilks.com/aplatform.html
My Pledge to the Cherokee People if I am elected, I will bring honesty
and true transparency to the Government,
Of course a cliche old as politics. But, I believe from my platform as the
planks are added you will see this is a plan that can only produce what the
Cherokee people desire of their elected officials.
So to all Cherokee People, if you want change, then you must work to get out
the vote on June 25, 2011, and I as a candidate for Chief ask for your vote. We together can fix the ails of the CNO.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Cherokee Principal Chief CHAD SMITH Called out By Council
Wow, a smackdown in the Cherokee Nation. Chad Smith, current principal chief of the Cherokee, apparently does not want to help clothe Cherokee children, want to cut down of firefighters, putting the safety of the Cherokee people at risk
Any wonder why he is in our HALL OF SHAME? Time to vote CHAD SMITH out and John Cornsilk IN
A story about the 2011 budget on the Cherokee Nation website prompted us to do a series on the budget. Chief Smith states that when we voted against the budget, we were voting to shut down the entire Cherokee Nation. We being Tina Glory-Jordan, Bill John Baker, Jodie Fishinghawk, Joe Crittenden, Curtis Snell and Chuck Hoskin, Jr. He went on to say we were voting against scholarships and school clothing vouchers. That since we voted no, we wanted to put 3,000 people out of work, closing down clinics and pre-schools and well, you get the picture, absurd as it is. He said a lot more and we will address that in the coming weeks. We voted no to make our displeasure at the chief’s budget known. Why were we against it? Because he should have looked first at other ways to cut the budget, rather than cutting programs that provide direct services to the people.
By his own reasoning, since he cut their budget, he is against the school clothing voucher program. He must be for not helping families’ cloth kids, since he cut $100,000 from its budget. He failed to tell you, that when four of the six councilmembers he mentioned, took their seat on the tribal council, the voucher was $75. When we sat in on our first budget hearing, Jodie Fishinghawk made a motion to raise the amount and Curtis Snell or Janelle Fullbright or both seconded the motion. The voucher went from $75, passed $100 and on to $125. However, what we gave, he took away this year. Shame on you Chief Smith, for being against clothing for children. Why are you against clothing kids, when you have some of your own?
We received the budget with an $185,000 reduction to our rural fire stations. Hey, all you volunteer firemen; he cut your budget by 61%, which means he is against your volunteer work. Jodie found some money in a budget that goes underspent and Tina Glory-Jordan suggested putting $150,000 back in the rural fire station budget. Hmmm, he is against you firefighters and we are for you? Yes, that is good, solid reasoning
PLEASE READ THE ARTICLE HERE
Any wonder why he is in our HALL OF SHAME? Time to vote CHAD SMITH out and John Cornsilk IN
A story about the 2011 budget on the Cherokee Nation website prompted us to do a series on the budget. Chief Smith states that when we voted against the budget, we were voting to shut down the entire Cherokee Nation. We being Tina Glory-Jordan, Bill John Baker, Jodie Fishinghawk, Joe Crittenden, Curtis Snell and Chuck Hoskin, Jr. He went on to say we were voting against scholarships and school clothing vouchers. That since we voted no, we wanted to put 3,000 people out of work, closing down clinics and pre-schools and well, you get the picture, absurd as it is. He said a lot more and we will address that in the coming weeks. We voted no to make our displeasure at the chief’s budget known. Why were we against it? Because he should have looked first at other ways to cut the budget, rather than cutting programs that provide direct services to the people.
By his own reasoning, since he cut their budget, he is against the school clothing voucher program. He must be for not helping families’ cloth kids, since he cut $100,000 from its budget. He failed to tell you, that when four of the six councilmembers he mentioned, took their seat on the tribal council, the voucher was $75. When we sat in on our first budget hearing, Jodie Fishinghawk made a motion to raise the amount and Curtis Snell or Janelle Fullbright or both seconded the motion. The voucher went from $75, passed $100 and on to $125. However, what we gave, he took away this year. Shame on you Chief Smith, for being against clothing for children. Why are you against clothing kids, when you have some of your own?
We received the budget with an $185,000 reduction to our rural fire stations. Hey, all you volunteer firemen; he cut your budget by 61%, which means he is against your volunteer work. Jodie found some money in a budget that goes underspent and Tina Glory-Jordan suggested putting $150,000 back in the rural fire station budget. Hmmm, he is against you firefighters and we are for you? Yes, that is good, solid reasoning
PLEASE READ THE ARTICLE HERE
Monday, August 9, 2010
JOHN CORNSILK for Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
John Cornsilk, a friend of Original Pechanga's Blog and from years of reading his website and correspondence is now running for Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. It's past time that Chad "Our Slaves were well treated" Smith be voted out of office. Here' Johns first flyer. We will continue to promote this change of leadership. Follow us on Twitter: @opechanga
We've previously discussed Chad Smith, an inductee into Original Pechanga's Blog's HALL of SHAME HERE HERE and HERE
John William Cornsilk
For Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
For All your Cherokee Rights The Right Cherokee for the Job.
See my platform as your Chief here
http://www.cornsilks.com/aplatform.html
For Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
For All your Cherokee Rights The Right Cherokee for the Job.
See my platform as your Chief here
http://www.cornsilks.com/aplatform.html
My Pledge to the Cherokee People if I am elected, I will bring honesty
and true transparency to the Government,
Of course a cliche old as politics. But, I believe from my platform as the
planks are added you will see this is a plan that can only produce what the
Cherokee people desire of their elected officials.
So to all Cherokee People, if you want change, then you must work to get out
the vote on June 25, 2011, and I as a candidate for Chief ask for your vote. We together can fix the ails of the CNO.
and true transparency to the Government,
Of course a cliche old as politics. But, I believe from my platform as the
planks are added you will see this is a plan that can only produce what the
Cherokee people desire of their elected officials.
So to all Cherokee People, if you want change, then you must work to get out
the vote on June 25, 2011, and I as a candidate for Chief ask for your vote. We together can fix the ails of the CNO.
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