Florida Sheriff Supports Open Carry; Criticizes “secret vote”

By Dean Weingarten

By Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)-

Sheriff Frank Mckeithe of Bay County, Florida, has come out in favor of open carry and the Second Amendment, and against the way in which the Florida Sheriffs’ Association conducted a vote to lobby against the open carry bill. The vote has been represented in the media as a “secret vote”. The accepted definition of a secret ballot is one in which the identities of the voters are kept secret from the people who count the votes. That way, reprisals against people who vote for or against a particular measure or person are prevented, and people have less to worry about votes being bought by those in power. Secret ballots are generally eschewed in legislatures, because it is expected that legislatures *will* be held accountable by the electorate. From wikipedia.org:

The secret ballot is a voting method in which a voter‘s choices in an election or a referendum are anonymous, forestalling attempts to influence the voter by intimidation and potential vote buying.

But the Sheriffs’ Association vote on the open carry bill was anything but secret, except …Read the Rest

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