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Resident raises concerns about taxes, checks and voter registration during public comment
Summary
During public comment, Edwin Wayne Grant criticized government charges on his bills, recounted problems with check processing (claiming rejections for red ink), and alleged irregular voter registrations in another state; the chair closed public comment after his remarks.
Edwin Wayne Grant used his allotted three minutes to criticize governmental charges and share several grievances.
Grant listed addresses and said he received an unexpectedly large credit‑card bill and increased license‑plate fees. He said the county cashed checks he signed in red ink and described alleged inconsistency in payment processing; he referenced the Uniform Commercial Code and an anecdote about a Supreme Court case to argue a check should be honored regardless of ink color. Grant also cited news reports alleging 6,600 noncitizen registrations in one New Jersey county and extrapolated that to a national figure—an assertion he framed as a concern about voter fraud. The chair thanked him and closed the public‑comment period.
The board did not respond substantively to the claims during the meeting; Grant's assertions about national voter‑registration totals and the specific check/processing claims were presented as his personal observations and were not corroborated in the meeting record.
