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3-11-2005

GOP seeks to remove Shelton from Ohio election board post

HAMILTON — The Butler County GOP Executive Committee gave a no confidence vote for Judy Shelton and agreed to ask the Ohio Secretary of State to remove her from her county board of elections post.

The GOP’s vote at Butler Tech comes in the wake of Shelton instigating a vote by the Butler County Board of Elections to have Lynn Kinkaid succeed Robert Mosketti as director of the board.

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But in an unexpected move Mosketti resigned the post on Feb. 24 and Shelton immediately recommended Kinkaid as his Republican successor.

The action, which was supported by Shelton and the two Democrat members of the elections board, sent a shock wave through the Republican community and prompted Shelton’s fellow Republican board member, Joseph Schwarz, to storm out of the meeting in anger.

With 192 for and 60 against, the party Thursday night gave Shelton a vote of no confidence for her actions. The GOP did not stop there.

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Dan Warncke, the party’s central committee parliamentarian, said the party has no authority to remove Shelton from the board of elections because her four-year term has not expired, but it can send Secretary of State Ken Blackwell a recommendation to remove her if she no longer holds her position as chair of the party’s central committee, according to the party’s bylaws.

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