Two big victories boost Ohio's election protection movement

[L. Coyote]

Source: The Columbus Free Press

In a victory for election protection activists, Ohio's powerful GOP Chair Bob Bennett will be forced to face a public hearing on his removal as Chair of the Cuyahoga (Cleveland) Board of Elections. And in a second triumph, Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has agreed, as part of a legal settlement, to take possession of the ballots and other key documents from the disputed 2004 election that gave George W. Bush a second term in the White House.

Brunner has requested the resignations of the entire scandal-plagued Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, which Bennett has chaired......

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A long-time GOP power broker, Bennett is a close personal confidante of White House advisor Karl Rove. He has been Rove's point man in Ohio's most populous county, which includes the Democratic voter rich city of Cleveland. A wide array of irregularities there were pivotal in giving Bush his narrow margin of official victory in 2004.

Bennett asked the court to rule that the Ohio statute seeking his removal was unconstitutionally vague. But Judge Connor ruled that the law was "clear and unequivocal."

This is Bennett's third major setback in three days. .....

Read more: http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2007/2525

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This is a thorough article and a major development in several lawsuits.

Catch up on some of the events leading to these developments, with numerous links at:

OHIO 2004: 6.15% Kerry-Bush vote-switch found in probability study
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x259620

[Deep13]

1. We in Ohio could not be more delighted with our new SoS.

Ms. Brunner has been aggressive in restoring confidence in the election system. I frankly see her as a successor to Gov. Strickland or a possible challenger to Sen. Voinovich.

[Kolesar]

4. And we are "lucky" that Mark Dann beat Betty Montgomery-R for Attorney General

...In a close race that Montgomery *should* have won.

I am thinking of Congressman Tim Ryan of Niles to face Voino in 2010. The contest can't come soon enough.

[L. Coyote]

5. The Ohio courts, esp. State Supreme, is still loaded with Republicans.

This may yet impact efforts underway to "fix" what passed for prior elections.

[NEOBuckeye]

6. Ryan vs. Voinovich... sounds good to me!

I think Ryan can definitely take him on and win. I also like the idea of Brunner someday running for governor after Strickland. If she takes the same approach to that office as she is doing right now as Secretary of State, I think she would do very well.

[VenusRising]

7. Absolutely!!

I was so proud to vote for her. She's kicking everyone's butts who was involved, Republicans and Democrats alike.

[LiberalFighter]

2. Political Party officers should be barred from serving on election boards

determining election results.

[LiberalFighter]

3. What needs to happen now is discover the evidence that Bennett rigged the election

[Javaman]

8. What happens when it's found out that moron* actually lost there?

do the supremes come in yet again and anoit the moron* son?