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Archae

(46,354 posts)
Tue Nov 10, 2020, 03:55 PM Nov 2020

Ken Blackwell is throwing his own tantrum about the election...

Apparently counting ALL votes is bad...

Notorious Voter Suppressor Kenneth Blackwell Denounces Pennsylvania Governor and His ‘Legion of Darkness’

Right-wing activist Ken Blackwell, a former Ohio Secretary of State criticized for voter suppression practices and an adviser to the Trump-Pence campaign, pulled out all the rhetorical stops in an attack on Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf published by the American Thinker Monday under the headline, “Governor Wolf and his legion of darkness must be stopped in Pennsylvania.”

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/notorious-voter-suppressor-kenneth-blackwell-denounces-pennsylvania-governor-and-his-legion-of-darkness/

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CincyDem

(6,390 posts)
6. Funny story about meeting Blackwell in a restaurant around 2003/2004
Tue Nov 10, 2020, 04:14 PM
Nov 2020


Mrs. and I are sitting in a pretty nice restaurant downtown...they seat Blackwell next to us. Mrs and I look at each other for about 10 seconds and nod...so Mrs asks for another table.

Manager comes over and says...well, we pretty well booked up, it could be 15-20-30 minutes. No problemo for us and we're on our feet in a heartbeat.

About 5 minutes later they've got the table reset and they seat another couple there...and THEY GET UP about 2 minutes later. Guy walks past me and says, "now I know why you got up".

CincyDem

(6,390 posts)
11. I honestly can't put the two on a timeline. I'm pretty sure it was after his SoS tenure.
Tue Nov 10, 2020, 04:39 PM
Nov 2020

Memorable for the moment but not really in context with everything else going on. I did feel a little bit like a wanker because his wife seemed nice enough...said hello, smiled...you know...all the normal things ya do with the people at the next table. Him - he was a schlub (surprise surprise).



True Blue American

(17,992 posts)
2. Who cares? Kenneth Blackwells
Tue Nov 10, 2020, 04:03 PM
Nov 2020

Career ended when he bought the awful Diebold machines. A pile of junk even Republicans would not allow them to be used until a paper receipt was added. I spent several election days straightening those rolls out. They twisted.

Thekaspervote

(32,797 posts)
4. Well Ken.. tantrum about this..The PA gop majority leader has said there was no fraud and he
Tue Nov 10, 2020, 04:04 PM
Nov 2020

And the legislative body will NOT overrule the popular vote and throw the election to dotard

https://whyy.org/articles/as-legal-challenges-fizzle-pa-gop-reaffirms-it-will-not-seek-to-override-popular-vote/

DFW

(54,445 posts)
12. Blackwell should have been jailed for what he did Ohio in 2004
Tue Nov 10, 2020, 04:46 PM
Nov 2020

If he had been the Secretary of State of Pennsylvania this time, Trump would be crowing about his “convincing” re-election with the same number of votes having been cast for the same candidates.

DFW

(54,445 posts)
13. Blackwell should have been jailed for what he did Ohio in 2004
Tue Nov 10, 2020, 04:47 PM
Nov 2020

If he had been the Secretary of State of Pennsylvania this time, Trump would be crowing about his “convincing” re-election with the same number of votes having been cast for the same candidates.

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