Check out what Ohio's Sec. of State Blackwell did to voters!

[Vote4Kerry]

This was posted a while ago, but I am not sure if everybody had a chance to read it:
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In Howard County, Ohio, a judge ruled on Election Day that everyone standing in line to vote at 7:30 p.m. had to eventually be allowed inside. The order said the ruling was good for the day of Nov. 2. (You can view the order at the website below.) But maybe it didn't occur to the judge that everybody might not make it inside by midnight. At the stroke of midnight, when the calendar legally clicked over to Nov. 3, Republican Ken Blackwell, the secretary of state, told all the waiting voters to go home. His workers gave them paper ballots (i.e., provisional ballots), told them to fill them out and bring them back later.

It was an improvised move that undercut the intent of the judge's ruling,and created chaos. Many people in Howard County still haven't turned in those ballots because they don't know where to take them or what the deadline is. The only kind of ballot in a federal election that people can legally take home, fill out and turn in later is an absentee ballot, and those are marked as such. They're marked with clear rules concerning deadlines, postmarking, and so on. So an uncounted number of people in Howard County - estimated in the thousands - couldn't get in and were turned away with what may be ruled an illegal procedure. The vast majority of those votes were expected to go to Kerry based on the heavily Democratic population of Howard County.

The Democrats have filed a lawsuit. You can click on the Ohio State University law school website to read about it. (Reassemble the
following long link, if it is broken by your email browser.)

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:pKbOJwHH7OMJ:morit..

[shraby]

1. They must mean Howard city or town

because there is no Howard county.

[Igel]

2. The link doesn't work. Try this one.

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:pKbOJwHH7OMJ:moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/analysis/110304b.htm+Ohio+7:30+election+Blackwell+waiting+line&hl=en&start=4&lr=lang_en
is presumably the right link.

(Your link takes me to a google search circuling back to DU; that page includes this, with the text displayed that matches your link. But DU doesn't display the entire link. OK, this explanation is going on too long.)

[Liberty Belle]

3. Impeach him. Ohio law says officials can be impeached

for misdemeanors; someone in another thread just posted says that can mean "misdeeds." Clearly there are plenty of those.

Also, Blackwell had an ex-Congressman arrested for trying to deliver papers on voting fraud a couple of days ago--at the Secretary of State's own office (in a private building)!

Ohio Voters--Please start impeachment proceedings NOW!

[skids]

4. kick... OK all Blackwelll dirt, to the top.

And someone compile it. It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it.