Blackwell's Dual Role Criticized (Cincy Enquirer)

[theHandpuppet]

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060724/NEWS01/607240324

Blackwell's dual role criticized
As voter ID rule takes effect, candidate is also election chief
BY JON CRAIG AND ALLISON D'AURORA | ENQUIRER COLUMBUS BUREAU

COLUMBUS - Lingering debate over the 2004 presidential election, continues to haunt Secretary of State Ken Blackwell in his campaign to become governor.

Those who blame the Cincinnati Republican for long lines and rulings leading up to the 2004 election predict even more chaos during the upcoming Nov. 7. election.

That's when a new law requiring identification for voters at the polls takes effect statewide for the first time.

Add to that a federal requirement that 68 of Ohio's 88 counties replace punch card ballots with electronic voting machines, and politicians and voting experts worry that the stage is set for another difficult election.

"I think we're in for a very tumultuous Election Day in November," said state Rep. Steve Driehaus, a Price Hill Democrat. "We saw long lines two years ago and I'm afraid we're going to see long lines again. ...There's going to be tremendous confusion at the polls."

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[EST]

1. Commendable but disgusting.

Can't they learn to say "criminal conspiracy?"

[whalerider55]

2. not yet...

i think we're only six years into the statute of stupidity that allows this sh*t to take place in front of our eyes. as I recall, the statute requires a full ten years of being aghast and using words like tremendous instead of treacherous.

whalerider...
in a foul mood this morning

[EST]

5. You are allowed...

Hell, we all are.

[saltpoint]

3. This is Ken Blackwell's last role on the political stage in Ohio.

For elective office, anyway.

He's toast.

Ted Strickland is going to mop the floor with Blackwell. I think Ohio voters have just about had enough.

The Taft name would ordinarily be enough to sustain a political career in Ohio, but this Taft has sold that family cow for a handful of magic beans. Only to discover they were just beans, hold the magic.

Ney is stinking up the place. Even the Toledo BLADE thinks he's an idiot and a criminal.

And Blackwell's hideous assault on democracy in 2004 has not escaped notice of likely voters. The polls show him trailing, trailing badly, and probably trailing irretrievably.

He's out of there.

[theHandpuppet]

4. All I can say to Cincinnati is "Duck and Cover!"

All your political vultures are soon coming home to roost.