BY ERIC VAUGHAN
NNB Reporter
ST. PETERSBURG- Residents get the chance to choose whether the City Council’s electronic voting system is an adequate way to measure votes on Election Day Tuesday, Nov. 3.
The referendum reads:
“Shall the City Charter be amended to generally clarify the voting process of City Council the main clarification being that a roll call vote can be accomplished by an electronic system that is used to tally, display and record City Council votes, without the City Clerk needing to orally recite what is visually displayed?”
While the referendum would mean council members either have to vote electronically as they have been doing, or verbally announce their votes, many voters in St. Petersburg seem uninterested with this particular question.
“I don’t care one way or the other, but if electronic voting has been working, then why would you change it?” said Janet Richardson, who lives in Midtown.