Wednesday, November 7, 2012
"We're convinced this will be the fastest Election Night reporting for a presidential election in Oakland County history," Clerk Bill Bullard said Tuesday.
Oakland County on Tuesday was set to become the second county in the United States to tap wireless technology to transmit election results more quickly after the polls close. The analog modems on vote tabulator and absentee ballot counting board machines throughout Oakland County have been upgraded with wireless cellular modems that will allow unofficial results to be transmitted from communities to the county as soon as the polls close at 8 p.m., Oakland County Clerk Bill Bullard said Tuesday. Previously, the memory card in each vote tabulator at each precinct had to be removed manually after election workers finished their paperwork, then taken to Town Hall for the results to be uploaded and transmitted to the county, West Bloomfield …
Former state representative draws on support from hometown of West Bloomfield.
Updated: 11:34 a.m. Nov. 8, with more accurate information In one of the more-surprising results from Tuesday's election in Oakland County, Democrat Lisa Brown of West Bloomfield soundly defeated the incumbent, Republican Clerk/Register of Deeds Bill Bullard. With all 522 precincts reporting, Brown finished with 313,391 total votes, or 53.28 percent of the total. Bullard, a former chairman of the Oakland County Board of Commissioners who was appointed clerk in 2010, accumulated 272,592 total votes, or 46.35. The mudslinging in the county race started early and continued often after Brown announced her candidacy in April. While running on a platform of changing "the county culture of party politics trumping good government," Brown had …
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Pam Smith says she did not intend that her personal support represent an endorsement connected with her official position.
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
This letter was received by Farmington-Farmington Hills Patch local editor Joni Hubred-Golden. In response to a recent article in this paper regarding my endorsement for County Clerk Bullard, Jr., I feel the need to clarify this issue. As City Clerk for the City of Farmington Hills, I have always represented a neutral position and have never used my position or my title to endorse a candidate, party or ballot issue. It certainly was not my intention for any acknowledgement of personal support to be representative of an endorsement by me as City Clerk for the City of Farmington Hills. Pamela B. Smith City Clerk City of Farmington Hills For questions and clarifications, please leave a comment below or contact local editor Tim Rath at …
City clerks in Keego Harbor, Commerce, and Bloomfield Township supporting another term for the current county clerk.
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
This letter was received by Farmington-Farmington Hills Patch local editor Joni Hubred-Golden. There is an important but often overlooked race on your ballot this November. The County Clerk is vitally important to conducting successful elections and providing many services we all rely on. We hope you will join us in supporting County Clerk Bill Bullard. County Clerk Bill Bullard is working hard for us and has shown some real results. Just this year, the County Clerk’s office won six national awards for excellence in innovation and customer service. Clerk Bullard has put a strong emphasis on improving online services, allowing all of us to save gas money and precious time. He has brought his office services to our local communities-even on…
Morris Blake
7:03 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012
Praise the good lord . This disgusting man Bullard showed a picture of a mental handicap child in one of his campaign flyers just to get a point across about going on line or standing in line. I'm very happy he lost. more ›