The answer is obvious: she's a Barnett/Publix in-law and a GOPer; so she assumes she's owed this public paycheck -- even with a record of demanding overturn of voter decisions.
Recently I received an unsolicited text message to my mobile phone from Melony Bell stating that my mail ballot for the November 2024 election was not received at the Polk County Supervisor of Elections website and that I needed to take action. I know this to be false, because I had checked previously on the Supervisor of Elections website and saw that my ballot had been received, accepted, and counted. It makes me wonder what Melony's motivation was for sending out these text messages, which I am pretty sure other mail ballot voters received. It makes me question why anyone should vote for her, an unproved candidate for this position, and vote out Lori Edwards, who appears to have done a stellar job as our Polk County Supervisor of Elections. Also Melony has been critical of the current website for the Polk Supervisor of Elections, claiming it needs to be redesigned and faulting Lori for the situation that occurred during the last election when this website as well as the websites for several other counties went down due to a vendor problem. Again, I think her statements are false and an attempt to make Lori look bad for something that she clearly did not do.
She also insinuated there was carelessness involved recently when an electronic lock failed at the supervisors office in Bartow. This apparently gave any bad actors access to the building in order to tamper with the election process and presumably fiddle with equipment in the office. She did NO investigation into what happened, but posted that this sort of carelessness would never happen if she were to be elected. No investigation, no retraction when the incident turned out to be nothing concerning. Typical R maneuver, absolutely without foundation, and obviously designed to raise suspicion.
Dirty tricks are the "christian" republicans' M.O.
Recently I received an unsolicited text message to my mobile phone from Melony Bell stating that my mail ballot for the November 2024 election was not received at the Polk County Supervisor of Elections website and that I needed to take action. I know this to be false, because I had checked previously on the Supervisor of Elections website and saw that my ballot had been received, accepted, and counted. It makes me wonder what Melony's motivation was for sending out these text messages, which I am pretty sure other mail ballot voters received. It makes me question why anyone should vote for her, an unproved candidate for this position, and vote out Lori Edwards, who appears to have done a stellar job as our Polk County Supervisor of Elections. Also Melony has been critical of the current website for the Polk Supervisor of Elections, claiming it needs to be redesigned and faulting Lori for the situation that occurred during the last election when this website as well as the websites for several other counties went down due to a vendor problem. Again, I think her statements are false and an attempt to make Lori look bad for something that she clearly did not do.
Sounds like she is trying to sew doubts about the election.
Can you send that to me? Text or screen shot to 8134047420
Sorry, I reported the message as spam, and it was deleted from my phone.
She also insinuated there was carelessness involved recently when an electronic lock failed at the supervisors office in Bartow. This apparently gave any bad actors access to the building in order to tamper with the election process and presumably fiddle with equipment in the office. She did NO investigation into what happened, but posted that this sort of carelessness would never happen if she were to be elected. No investigation, no retraction when the incident turned out to be nothing concerning. Typical R maneuver, absolutely without foundation, and obviously designed to raise suspicion.
Dirty tricks are the "christian" republicans' M.O.
She didn't get my vote.
Trust a Republican with election results, now that is funny. But not funny.