The Dems did it too! Next up for Repub spin: Bush is really a Democrat!
Democrats keep leveling charges at Blackwell they can’t back up
Sunday, June 11, 2006
JOE HALLETT
Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell is flypaper for controversy.
By sticking his nose into fights and poking his finger in eyes, he has become a well-known political maverick, a trait in this year of the anti-Republican incumbent that led him to the GOP gubernatorial nomination.
Last week, Blackwell stirred a new firestorm by writing rules to implement House Bill 3, the election-reform law that took effect May 2.
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Ohio has a bipartisan election system with an equal number of Democrats and Republicans at the county level, where elections are actually run, Niquette said. For the massive fraud outlined in stories such as Kennedy’s to have occurred without being exposed at the time, scores of Democratic election officials and hundreds of lawyers for Kerry in Ohio would have had to have been bought off, incompetent or both.
Kennedy rails about the woefully inadequate number of voting machines in Franklin County’s inner-city precincts, but with bipartisan approval, a Democrat decided where the machines would be placed. Kennedy accuses Blackwell of twisting the rules on provisional ballots to help Bush block Democratic votes but neglects to mention that 32 other states have the same rules for counting such ballots – and that Ohio’s rate for counting them was 77 percent, the third highest in the nation.
Blackwell invited criticism by agreeing to serve as Bush’s Ohio co-chairman, but Democrats still haven’t met the burden of proof that he stole the 2004 election.
http://www.ohioelects.com/?story=dispatch/2006/06/11/20060611-E5-00.html