T BLADE: Failed Election Oversight (NAILS BLACKWELL!)

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Article published Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Failed election oversight


THE current issue of The Nation magazine includes an article about Ohio's troubled voting system, warning of a "ballot meltdown" in the Nov. 7 gubernatorial election.

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Many of the problems predicted - difficulties with voter registration, absentee ballots, and the casting and counting of ballots - can be traced to inadequate and incompetent oversight of the election process, which in Ohio is entrusted to both local and state officials.

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Trusting Ohioans might believe that Secretary of State Ken Blackwell would be working night and day to head off any problems, but they would be wrong. Mr. Blackwell, a Republican who is preoccupied with running for governor, is himself a big part of the problem.

As we have repeatedly pointed out over the past eight years, Mr. Blackwell, aided by the GOP-controlled legislature, has displayed a disturbingly erratic combination of inattention to his job and blatant partisanship in the conduct of elections, especially during the 2004 presidential campaign.

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[lonestarnot]

1. How's that Gov campaign going there Blackwell? Aren't you worried

that someone might try to flip some votes on you? bbbwwwwwwwwwwwwwa :rofl:

[bleever]

2. Oh! That kind of "oversight"...

It was all a simple semantic misunderstanding...

:rofl:

I won't be truly happy til I see Kathy B. in an orange jumpsuit.

[lonestarnot]

3. Oh the irony of it all.

bwwwwwa again! :rofl:

[Botany]

4. Sadly Blackwell has legal history on his side

because both republican & dem sec. of state have overseen elections that
they & their party have been in but have run them clean.