Sept. 21, 2007 — A swearing-in date for Constitutional Convention delegates and the beginning of the convention remains in limbo as Harry Daniel appeals a recent court ruling.
A meeting of the Joint Boards of Election on St. Croix Friday included a brief discussion of Daniel's case.
Daniel was the third-place vote getter on St. John and received more votes than some of the candidates on St. Thomas who were certified as delegates by the board. He was not certified because of wording on the ballot that instructed voters to select "no more than" two delegates from St. John.
Board members said they heard Daniel recently filed preliminary papers in the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. A panel of V.I. Supreme Court justices ruled against Daniel Monday. (See "Case Dismissed: Daniel Out as Constitutional Convention Delegate.")
"The appeal could take four months," said John Abramson Jr., elections board supervisor. "There are no extraordinary exceptions made to get on the docket."
Abramson said he wrote a letter to the attorney general stating his total dissatisfaction of how he was treated in the Harry Daniel case.
In other business, St. Thomas Chairwoman Alecia Wells opened Friday's meeting with a report about voter-registration drives.
"A lot of young people are requesting to hold voter registrations," she said.
A drive was held at the St. Thomas campus of the University of the Virgin Islands Thursday, but results weren't in yet, she said. Raymond Williams, St. Croix chairman, reported that a voter-registration drive is planned at schools in November.
Present during the meeting were board members Lawrence Bochulte, Claudette Georges, Leona Smith, Lorna Thomas, Ana Davila, Carmen Golden, Colette White-Amaro, Humberto O'Neal and Rupert Ross.
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