Ken Blackwell Outsources Ohio Election Results to GOP Internet Operatives, Again

[babsbunny]

http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2006/11/7/115314/922


Ken Blackwell Outsources Ohio Election Results to GOP Internet Operatives, Again
by luaptifer
Tue Nov 07, 2006 at 11:53:14 AM EST

Contributors to this story: luaptifer, intranets, txj, sawcielackey, kfred, wanderindiana, bronxdem, zan, GreyHawk, susie dow, indyjones48, ricardo4, silence, Biblio, Cho, standingup, avahome, DEFuning, harmonyguy, sluggojd

Mid-term ballots are likely to hand over at least one chamber to Democrats on Tuesday in elections overcast by a storm of GOP scandal. The vortex threatens Ken Blackwell, Ohio's Secretary of State (SOS), who aspires to be Governor while dancing at the eyewall's edge. In Ohio, even lobbyists are gagging on the pervasive sleaze of pay-to-play government and Blackwell mistakenly invests in Diebold shares. Voters have become fed up with corruption in government and their renewed fondness for ethical politics that has been missing for so long may shine too bright a light to allow Blackwell the confidence of their votes .

As the last ballots are cast tonight, Ohioans will confidently track realtime results using voting equipment and Internet reporting systems that Ken Blackwell built to replace the horrors of hanging chads. Will the electorate choke to find that the architect of Ohio's Election Night Results Dashboard is an RNC technology strategist and the political intimate of the Bush Dynasty since the 80s? Will a Strickland voter simply resolve to swallow harder on discovering that his realtime election returns may be shipped to his desktop from the GOP Internet operations center in Chattanooga rather than the Ohio OARnet IT servers in Columbus?

[beaconess]

1. Well - it sure didn't do HIM any good . . . nt

[Old and In the Way]

2. I predict voting won't be a problem in Ohio in 2008....

and it will be blue, baby...blue!

[MidMichiganBuckeye]

3. God bless my home state!

It's good to see Ohio waking back up after all these years! Oh yeah...GO BUCKEYES!!!!!