New Ohio article....

[kuozzman]

http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/local/states/ohio/counties/summit_county/10393397.htm

Is this true about 10 hours in Knox County!!?
Travis said the longest line was in Knox County, where some Kenyon College students waited 10 hours and finished voting at 4 a.m.

He has cast his ballot at Hatton Elementary School since moving to Akron's Ellet area in 1955.
``They said my name wasn't in the book. Jackie's name was there, but I wasn't,'' said Harris, who described himself as ``fighting mad.''
After much, and sometimes loud, discussion he was allowed to vote -- by provisional ballot.

Six weeks after the election, Harris' mood hasn't changed. ``I told them (poll workers) my name not being in the book was a bunch of crap,'' Harris said, noting that he still believes ``something tricky was going on.''

``A two-hour wait to vote can operate as a kind of poll tax for people who have to vote before work,'' said Edward B. Foley, an Ohio State University professor who specializes in election law.

``On the other hand, if you take your work home in a briefcase, or you have the freedom to come back to vote in the middle of the day, the lines have less effect.''

``At 5:45 a.m., people were already in line,'' McWilliams said. ``Challengers were there, too.''

She saw it as ``no accident'' that Republican challengers were deployed in Wards 3, 4, and 5 and in one precinct each in Wards 1, 7 and 9. ``Each one of those precincts and wards were largely populated by persons of color,'' she said.

In a People for the American Way public hearing in Cleveland, one of the conveners asked the audience of more than 50 to indicate, by a show of hands, who was sure that their vote had counted.

[lonestarnot]

1. Time is waaaay overdue to stand up and fight for these people!

Pissing and moaning needs to be replaced with a yellow dog fight!

[otohara]

2. Blue Collar Workers Left -

``We estimated somewhere between 35 and 50 voters left without voting because they had to get to work,'' said Vogelsang.

[Bush was AWOL]

3. Yes, it's true about Knox

but that is not the only place. I'm willing to bet Kerry lost nearly 100,000 votes because of the long lines in Franklin County and Cuyahoga County. Yes, there were taht many inner city folks and students that wanted Bush to be defeated.

I, for one, have talked to many students and friends who work/live in the downtown area of Columbus that were unable to vote because of the long lines. My sister and a friend waited in line 3 hours before they finally had to get out of line to make it to class.