POWIP Piece of Work In Progress – Former Abode of Dan Collins

Joe Miller Comes (Partly?) Clean

Why he was disciplined:

"One noon hour, on his own time at the borough, Joe participated in an online poll voting against Randy. He used four office computers in the office to do it, thinking this was his chance to boost numbers to get rid of Randy. He emptied the cache files on the computers so the users wouldn't know what he had done. When the users asked what had happened to their caches, (Miller) admitted to what he did. He was reprimanded and docked in pay for several days, but was not suspended or fired."

"Rex told me that his son called him that same day and admitted that he did a stupid thing. He said he was sorry. Joe was 'never in danger of being fired at any time,' Rex said," Rostad wrote in the e-mail.

Rostad told the Daily News in an interview that the e-mail is "pretty self-explanatory and I would really urge you to get ahold of the Miller campaign and talk directly to them."

It was a stupid thing to do. I'm glad that it's part of the public record, and voters can take it into account when they go to the polls.

Here are some other accounts and allegations of people using government computers for unauthorized purposes relating to campaigns, some on the clock, some accessing files for illegitimate and privacy-violating purposes. When the wheel turns, we will see where the most vocal critics of Joe Miller stand.

Mind you, if the rule was one vote per individual, and he accessed those various computers to skew the vote, though no worse in that respect than Chris Bowers' plan to Google bomb negative pieces on opponents, then I think he really has disqualified himself as a candidate. Waiting for clarification.

Memories from Massachusetts' Attorney General.

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