Thursday, November 04, 1999
Lost vote key to issue
Campbell can't find sole annex ballot
BY RAY SCHAEFER
Enquirer Contributor
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS — She says she voted to leave the city. Election officials say they can find no evidence she did.
Now it may take weeks to find out what happened.
Billie Sandhas never dreamed leaving Highland Heights' tax rolls would be such an ordeal.
The process of deannexing Ms. Sandhas' business, Skyline Tavern on Johns Hill Road across from Northern Kentucky University, is just beginning.
She was the only person who could vote Tuesday on the deannexation question because hers was the only property involved.
She said she did vote to deannex. Tuesday's final tally from the Campbell County clerk's office, however, showed no votes on either side.
“I'm kind of laughing now,” Ms. Sandhas said Wednesday.
Campbell County Clerk Jack Snodgrass said it is a three-step process to find out what happened.
• Mr. Snodgrass said Ms. Sandhas has to file a “request to recanvass” by 4 p.m. next Tuesday in order for the machine to be checked. Ms. Sandhas said she contacted her attorney, Robert Blau of Cold Spring, to write such a letter.
“We're looking into the system from all angles,” Mr. Snodgrass said. “That one vote was the total election.”
• If it is determined the machine worked properly, Ms. Sandhas may then ask for a recount if she is not satisfied with the findings.
• “We believe her next recourse is to file in (Campbell) Circuit Court,” Mr. Snodgrass said.
Ms. Sandhas, 74, has been trying to leave the city for about four months. She wants to leave because she could not get a sewer connection and doesn't wish to pay city taxes.
Ms. Sandhas said that when she went to the Highland Heights City Building to vote Tuesday, she couldn't find her issue on the ballot at first. She said a poll worker helped her find it in the lower right corner, and she pushed the “yes” button.
“Maybe it was my fault,” she said. “I did everything I was told to do. That's all I know.”
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