Precinct 122 snafus explained by Lee County Supervisor of Elections
“I don’t think that every staff member reads their emails, and that is a common error in any organization,” he said.
Supervisor of elections Tommy Doyle
It would appear that the results are in from the 2022 election, and it only took a couple of weeks.
Of course, everyone with a television set or a computer knew who the winners were, both state and local, but the Lee County Supervisor of Elections site was a little slow on the uptake. Several days after the election, almost up to a week, the results for Precinct 122 were not showing up on their website.
That is a glitch that could be expected after Lee County was hit with a massive hurricane a few weeks prior to the election, but to make matters even more convoluted, after it was announced on October 14 that the Crowninshield Community House would be our polling place for this election, employees in the Supervisor of Elections office were still telling people who called in that there was no Boca Grande polling place. To top it off, Boca Grande residents did not get information regarding where to poll until one to two days prior to the election.
Again, sometimes that can be expected considering the circumstances.
We have been assured that our votes were counted, though.
According to Lee County Supervisor of Elections Tommy Doyle, “This was a crazy time, and I apologize for any confusion about the polling location on Boca Grande. Thanks to Mary O’Bannon, we found the Community House for the Boca Grande Precinct. I had planned all along that we would put a voting site on Boca Grande on election day. We may have dropped the ball somewhere along the way, but thanks to you, residents of Boca Grande did go vote on election day.”
Doyle said the reason for lack of communication between himself and his employees was a simple one.
“I don’t think that every staff member reads their emails, and that is a common error in any organization,” he said.
He also explained that this election had no precinct voting sites that showed up after the election.ven the Boca Grande site was set as an early voting site.
“The Boca Grande site was a subset of the NW Regional Library in Cape Coral,” he said. “My apologies for any missteps during this disastrous time.”
If you haven’t been catching up with the news lately, Rep. Marco Rubio took the U.S. Senate race in Lee County, beating Dem. Val Deming, 67 percent to 32 percent. In the Representative for Congress race in District 17, Rep. Greg Steube took the race over Dem. Andrea Doria Kale, 68 percent to 31 percent. In the Representative for Congress race, District 19, Rep. Byron Donalds received 67 percent of the vote, while Dem. Cindy Bayai received 33 percent.
In the race for Governor and Lt. Governor, Gov. Ron DeSantis received 69 percent of the vote, while former governor Dem. Charlie Crist received 31 percent of the vote. In the Attorney General of Florida race, Rep. Ashley Moody received 69 percent of the vote, and Dem. Aramis Ayala received 31 percent.
Chief Financial Officer of Florida will continue to be Rep. Jimmy Patronis, as his opponent, Adam Hattersley, received 32 percent of the vote compared to Patronis’ 68 percent.
Florida’s Commissioner of Agriculture race was won by Rep. Wilton Simpson with 68 percent of the vote. His opponent, Dem. Naomi Esther Blemur, received 32 percent of the vote.
In the State Senate Race for District 33, Rep. Jonathan Martin received 95 percent of the vote for the win. Rep. Adam Botana will continue to represent Florida’s District 80, as he received 79 percent of the vote to defeat Mitchell Schlayer.
In the Lee County Board of County Commissioner’s race for District 2, Comm. Cecil Pendergrass retained his seat, as did Brian Hamman in Dist. 4 and Mike Greenwell in District 5.
Lee County residents overwhelmingly voted “yes” to a constitutional amendment that limits residential real property assessments. They voted “yes” to the abolishment of the Constitutional Revision Committee, and they voted “yes” to Constitutional Amendment 3, which allows additional homestead exemption for critical workforce members.
For Boca Grande’s precinct totals in the major races, see below. For a complete list of all the races in Lee County’s 2022 election and the results, go to lee.vote. They should all be there now.
