Spílyay Tyrooo, Warm Springs, Oregon
A p ril 17, 2013
Page 7
Council, BIA superintendent approve election
T he Twenty-Sixth Tribal
Council will take office on
Monday, May 6.
T he four new rriembers
are Kahseuss Jackson-W ill
iam s an d C arlos S m ith,
Agency District; and Orvie
D anzuka and Evaline Patt,
Simnasho District. '
Returning Council mem
bers are E u g en e A u stin
Greene Jr., Agency; Raymond
Tsumpti Sr., Simnasho; and
R euben H en ry and S co tt
Moses, Seekseequa.
T he Twenty-Fifth Tribal
Council last week reviewed
the Election and C ounting
board results, and then certi
fied the results;
The time period to object
to the election and the Coun
cil certification passed at 5
p.m. on Wednesday, April 10.
Objections were submitted
to the Warm Springs Agency
BIA S uperintendent, Jo h n
Halliday.
After reviewing the elec
tion process, and the objec
tions, Halliday agreed with
the Twenty-Fifth Tribal Coun
cil that the election was valid.
“I think the election was
fair. N o one cheated,” he said.
H alliday addressed five
specific objections to the
election:
1. That the notice o f elec
tions via mail was confusing
and untimely.
2. Candidates are not eli
gible to represent theConfed-
erated Tribes as they have
been convicted o f a major
crime or felony.
Superintendent
Halliday ad
dresses each objec
tion in a memo
randum to Tribal
Council
3. That there was a con
flict o f interest among mem
bers o f the Elections Board
and Counting Board m em
bers.
4. T hat the Election Day
runner compromised some o f
the ballots.
5. That the Council shall
appoint an Election/Counting
Board for each election and
that the current officials were
selected by the Twenty-Fourth
Tribal Council; and therefore
were not valid.
Halliday addresses each
objection in a memorandum
to Tribal Council:
1. W hile the notices o f
election mail outs were some
what confusing, the corrected
information was sent with the
proper timeframe.
2. T h e O rd in a n c e 44,
dated M arch 6, 1968, says
under Council eligibility that
the person have no felony
conviction.
“I have reviewed evidence
provided by a credible source,
and based on that informa
tion none o f the elected can
didates have been ‘convicted
o f a felony,’” Halliday says.
3. W hile there are elec-
Tally of Tribal Council election results
These are the results o f
the Twenty-Sixth Tribal Coun
cil election. The name o f the
candidate is followed by the
num ber o f Votes he or she
received (write-in candidates
n o t listed,' as th e re w ere
many):
Agency district
Carols Romos Calica (101)
Luther Clements (84)'
Reina Estimo (121)
Eugene Greene Jri (17l)
Anita Jackson (115)
Kahseuss J ackson-Williams
(178)
Kim Lorna LeClaire (35)
Louise Katchia (39)
Daniel Martinez (82)
Dabid M. Rodriguez (41)
M ary
A nn
S ando-
Emhoolah (74)
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J e ff E dw ard Sanders Sr
(102)
Alvis Wesley.Smith III (94)
M ona L. Smith-Cochran
(21)
Claude H enry Smith III
(114)
Ryan Smith Sr. (44)
Alex Smith (30)
Carlos Smith (181)
Jonathan William Smith Sr.
(42)
R andolph H enry Smith
(85) <
Simnasho District
F red erick D u ran B obb
(54)
Orvie Danzuka (146)
Raymond Moody (110)
Evaline Patt (145)
Olney Patt Jr. (107)
R ap h ael
Q u eah p am a
(109)
Cassimera Rhoan (30)
Sylvester Sahme Sr. (38)
Emerson Squiemphen (92)
Aurolyn Stwyer (76)
Delson Suppah Sr. (51)
Roland Suppah Sr. (94)'
Raymond Calica Tsumpti
Sr. (147)
Seekseequa District
Reuben Henry (55)
Wendell Jim (26)
M yra J o h n s o n -O ra n g e
(43)
Scott Moses (79)
Lee Tom (41)
Wilson Wewa Jri (27)
Robert Roscoe Smith (9)
Wissie Robert Smith (104)
Lola Sohappy (169) ,
Marcia Joyce Soliz (80)
Roy Spino (98)
Leontyne R. Tanawasha
Davis (67)
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tions officials w ho have close
family ties to candidates, the
ordinance says that such of
ficials “shall not be appointed
to such positions in an elec
tions where they may person
ally have an interest.”
Halliday says, “In this elec
tion I witnessed that elections
officials were appointed to
such positions within the elec
tion w here th ey separated
duties as to not have a per
sonal inteiest. In other words
they did not handle materials
th at may be in a com pro
mised form or open to ma
nipulation from any voting
districts where there may be
a conflict o f interest.”
4. Halliday says, “I person
ally counted how many bal
lots (the runner) left with and
then upon his return counted
exactiy how many he returned
with; so that only the proper
num ber o f ballots cast by
voters were placed in the vot
ing box, and that the exact
count o f excess ballots were
returned to the uncast ballot
stack.”
5. Tribal Council Resolu
tion No. 11,184 appointed the
Election Board and Counting
Board, and states that “Term
expires: Serve until replaced).
“B ased on th e above,”
Halliday concludes, “I am in
accord with the Confederated
T rib es o f W arm S prings
Tribal Council Resolution No.
11,745 certifying the 2013
Twenty-Sixth Tribal Council
Election results.”
MAC levy, board
positions on May ballot
Jefferson County wiH con
duct an election on May 21,
determ ining various board
positions, and a proposed 5-
year operating levy for the
Madras Aquatic Center. The
last day to register for this
election is A pril 30.
Also on May 21, the Con
federated Tribes are consid
ering conducting a referen
dum on the motorsports pro
posal (see page 1).
A m ong the board posi-
tions up for election in the
May 21 county vote are three
positions on the School Dis
trict 509-J board o f directors,
and three positions on the
Jefferson County Education
Services District board.
Laurie Danzuka, current
chair o f the school district
board, is running unopposed
for re-election to her position.
Four positions are up for
election on the M ountain
View Hospital district board.
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