Oh, the PAPERWORK!

The games have begun.

I have heard that the "litigious" branch of the Picard team have filed, according to my best counting, about eight Freedom of Information (FOI) requests upon the City Clerk and the Democratic Registrar.

Don't get me wrong: I've been a frequent user of the FOI laws upon the elected officials of our Fair City; and I've made complaints whenever those elected officials didn't comply with my requests within the FOI rules. FOI, I believe, is a powerful tool which can be used to keep those in power answerable to the people.

But, like any other powerful tool, FOI can also be misused powerfully. In this case, those making these FOI requests are apparently aiming to disrupt the election process. The information they seek could have been obtained at any other earlier time, but they chose now to make their requests. And so, the Clerk and the Registrar must take time - unnecessarily - from their electoral duties to: amass the data requested, to make copies of this information, and to ensure the information in the office fully complies with the request.

All of this work diverts their attention away from the necessary task of making sure this election is conducted fairly and legally. And all of these requests could have been made before the election was mandated. And those who made these FOI requests will scream the loudest (and will be first to levy a lawsuit, costing the City precious dollars), if anything goes the least bit awry.

Why, then, were these requests made when they were made? The only conclusion I can derive is that:

These people WANT this election to be flawed, so that they can get through a JUDGE
what they might not get through the PEOPLE.

I'll report the facts; you will be the judge of THE TRUTH.