Brad: 3rd OH election official indicted on charges of gaming '04 recount

[Amaryllis]

Blogged by Brad on 3/10/2006 @ 12:50pm PT...

OH MY OHIO: Third Election Official Indicted on Charges of Gaming 2004 Presidential Recount!
All Three Still Allowed to Work at Cuyahoga County Board Even While Under Indictment...

In case you don't know, the ballots from the 2004 Presidential Election in Ohio have never actually been counted . Or even recounted. The "official" recount, called for by the...

In case you don't know, the ballots from the 2004 Presidential Election in Ohio have never actually been counted. Or even recounted.

The "official" recount, called for by the Green and Libertarian Parties in the state, was gamed and carried out completely against state law by Ohio's Sec. of State (and Bush/Cheney's Re-Election Committee Co-Chair) J. Kenneth Blackwell.

The Green and Libertarian Parties are still challenging that recount in Federal Court. As well, two Cuyahoga County Election Officials were indicted last August for gaming that (non)recount.

And today, AP informs us, a third one has just been nabbed as well...

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002531.htm

[electropop]

1. I had no idea they were closing in.

Is going to go anywhere?

[Amaryllis]

7. That is the question. How big does a scandal have to be to get

it to go anywhere theese days?

[Mnemosyne]

2. !! n/t

[mom cat]

3. Now, that is progress!

:bounce:

[MelissaB]

4. Kick Kick Kick

and recommend to send to the greatest.

Brad, thanks so much for all the work you do. :loveya:

[ClayZ]

5. big Kick and a R ..whoo hooo!

:kick:

[Chi]

6. Recommended

Cuyahoga is such a friggin 'Hazzard Count',
the Sheriff (longest running Sheriff in the country) runs everything.
'nobody gets elected in Cleveland without the Sheriff's say so'