The Nashua Advocate: The Real HAVA Scandal Is In Ohio, Not California

[nashuaadvocate]

The new article, which we've classified as "Breaking News" because of its virtual non-existence as a media item outside Ohio, can be found here.

Here's an excerpt:

It's the morning of Wednesday, January 12th, 2005, and as, say, Republican Keith Cunningham -- the incoming President of the Ohio Association of Election Officials -- wakes up and brushes his teeth, he can be confident in the knowledge that the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) has given the State of Ohio until January 1st, 2006 to deploy voting machines with paper audits.

That's 354 days to do the job right.

Then he gets the news: Ohio's Republican Secretary of State, J. Kenneth Blackwell, has given Ohio's 88 counties not 354 days to fix Ohio's troubled election apparatus, but a span of time much, much shorter than that.

28 days.

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The News Editor
The Nashua Advocate

[BrklynLiberal]

1. As usual, great article. Thanks.

[mirandapriestly]

2. So relieved to know the Election Commission was appointed by *wipe

so I can sleep soundly knowing their findings will be non-partisan.........Am I the only one ready to explode?

[nashuaadvocate]

3. Nah -- we're pretty close, too. :-) n/t

[dmac]

4. Could the "rush" have anything to do with this?

"Conservative Star, Ken Blackwell, Is on the Rise in Ohio

by John Gizzi
Posted Jan 28, 2005

With Ohio's Republican gubernatorial primary 17 months away, the fight to succeed lameduck GOP Gov. Robert A. Taft II already promises to be one that conservatives nationwide will watch with great interest.

Early polling indicates that Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell--a pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment, anti-tax conservative stalwart--has emerged as the top candidate. This is significant because Buckeye State Republicans have often opted in the past for middle-of-the-road nominees rather than conservatives such as Blackwell."

Can anyone argue a "victory" may be easier with Diebold? Perhaps Walden O'Dell has been making promises of deliverance again . . .

(http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?print=yes&id=6432)