Miccosukee
Tribe of
Florida
Election
Challenge
of
November 12, 1989
* Not to be confused with
the sovereign Miccosukee Seminole Nation and or the
Everglades Miccosukee Tribe of Seminole Indians
Fax
Cover Sheet
To: Eastern Area Director of Bureau
of Indian Affairs
Attn.: Bill Ott
Fax No. (703) 2358610
From: Osceola and other Miccosukees
Ref: Challenge to
Nov. 12, 1989 Miccosukee Tribe Elections Florida
Number of pages including this
cover sheet: 6
MESSAGE:
Dear Sir
Please assist us with this problem.
We enclose copy of our 5 page challenge to above election.
Thank you.
Copy to Secretary of Interior & Asst. Sec. of Interior /
Indian Affairs
Date: Nov. 17, 1989
Time: 11:00 AM
TO:
Secretary of the General Council
DATE: November 16, 1989
RE:
November 12, 1989 Election Improprieties
CHALLENGE
Pursuant to
the constitution of the Miccosukee Tribe of Florida, General
Council, Ordinance No. 2, Election Ordinance, Paragraph 9,
Challenges, - all challenges must be made in writing to the
Secretary of the General Council within five days after the
election, upon receipt of a properly filed challenge, the
Secretary shall issue a notice for a special Council meeting
within three days. The General Council shall hear the
challenge and its decision shall be final. In
accordance with the above paragraph, the enrolled, eligible
members, whose signatures appear at the last page of this
document, file the following challenges:
CHALLENGE 1: Absentee
ballots are to be kept separate from the ballots cast on
Election day and the ballot boxes used on Election day are
to be opened, inspected as to being empty, and relocked
prior to the beginning of the Election. We submit
there were absentee ballots mixed in with the ballots cast
on Election day in the same ballot boxes. Thus, the
ballot boxes were not opened, inspected and relocked in
violation of paragraphs 5(c) and 7(a) of Ordinance 2,
Election Ordinance.
CHALLENGE 2:
We submit that persons, not listed on the official list of
the Secretary of the General Council, were allowed to cast
their vote in this Election, in violation of paragraphs
4(x), 4(b), 5(c) and 6(a) of Ordinance 2, Election
Ordinance.
CHALLENGE 3:
We submit that the Secretary of the General Council, who was
an incumbent candidate, stood at the door, the entrance to
the Election poll, where ballots were being cast, and at
3:00 p.m. when the poll was to be closed, by one of the
three members of the Election Board, the incumbent candidate
Secretary of the General Council closed the door on
qualified, eligible, enrolled members of the
TO:
Secretary of the General Council
DATE: November 16, 1989
RE:
November 12, 1989 Election Improprieties
Tribe, that had been
waiting in that line to cast their vote, instead of a member
of the Election Board standing at the end of that line to
deny future voters, who had missed the 3:00p.m. deadline
from entering the line. All of the above in violation
of paragraphs 1, 5 and 5(e) of Ordinance 2, Election
Ordinance.
We, the enrolled, eligible members of the Miccosukee Tribe
of Indians of Florida, submit that due to the improprieties
of the recent election, as stated above, hereby request that
the General Council of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of
Florida declare the election of November 12, 1989, null and
void and that the General Council select a new date to
conduct a properly supervised and well monitored election of
our Tribal Leaders.
We, the UNDERSIGNED
MICCOSUKEE VOTERS, do hereby request the MICCOSUKEE GENERAL
COUNCIL to "VOID" the results of the November 12th (1989)
elections, and establish a date for Special election:
By their Sgns (3 pages)
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