Vote Challengers Accuse Blackwell of Trying to Let 'Clock Run Out'

[liberal N proud]

Published on Saturday, January 1, 2005 by the Toledo Blade (Ohio)

Vote Challengers Accuse Blackwell of Trying to Let 'Clock Run Out'
by James Drew

COLUMBUS - Partisan activists contesting the presidential election results in Ohio said the state's highest court appears willing to "allow the clock to run out" so that the Electoral College results become official on Jan. 6.

Cliff Arnebeck, an attorney who filed the election contest on behalf of a coalition of activists led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, said Secretary of State Ken Blackwell has chosen to not appear at a deposition to answer questions under oath about the Nov. 2 election.

"If George Bush indeed won this election, there would be no one with a greater interest in proving that to be the case," Mr. Arnebeck said at a news conference yesterday. "They want the clock to run out. They want to win by default."

The lawsuit alleges that votes were taken away from Democrat John Kerry's column and added to Mr. Bush's.

It refers to a "pattern of vote fraud and discrimination," and problems with voting machines around the state.

Mr. Blackwell, a Republican who was associate chairman of Mr. Bush's campaign in Ohio, has said there were "some glitches in the election, but none of these glitches were of a conspiratorial nature and none of them would have overturned or changed the election results."

On Dec. 29, Chief Justice Thomas Moyer refused to grant a motion for an expedited hearing in the election challenge.

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[Pam-Moby]

1. Thats a fact Jack-truth

If George Bush indeed won this election, there would be no one with a greater interest in proving that to be the case. So whats up there Kenneth?