Ohio GOP: Kicking and Screaming

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is getting attacked by the Ohio GOP because of her desire to have and maintain clean, honest, and fair elections in the state. However, the Republicans who've been controlling every aspect of the vote in Ohio, are kicking and screaming to protest. The Republicans once controlled where votes were counted and which of the the party "bigshots" counted the vote. Now the Republicans are acting like two year olds throwing tantrums all over the state. Here is an example from a story in the Plain Dealer:

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is knee-deep in a turf war in Summit County with the GOP.

Brunner, a Democrat, was grilled for more than four hours Wednesday night in a deposition over her decision to take on the Summit County Republican Party Executive Committee twice this year over its selection to the county's elections board. And the Ohio Supreme Court is still taking evidence in that party's complaint against her.

As the head of the state's election system, Brunner selects the four members to the county election boards based on recommendations from Democratic and Republican parties. Two members represent each party....

> What have the Republicans done in Summit County? Here is an article about massive voter registration fraud in Ohio 2004 from the Election Defense Alliance:

In that book, Miller recounts his conversations with Denise Shull, a poll checker in Summit County. During the course of her work on Election Day, Shull noted that approximately 10% to 20% of registered Democratic voters on her list were not on the official list of registered voters. Furthermore – and this is very important – these voters were described as ardent Democrats, as long time voters in the area, AND most of them were not voting....

....How could voter purging be made more efficient in counties with large percentages of Republican voters?

Miller’s book also describes a break-in at Democratic Party headquarters in Akron, Summit County, in the summer of 2004. The only thing stolen was two computers with Democratic campaign-related information on them. A similar break-in occurred three months later in Lucas County, and was described by the Toledo Blade. One can guess that with voter information obtained from these computers, the targeting of Democratic voters in these two counties could have been made a lot more efficient than it could have been without that information.....

>> Here is something else from Harper's Magazine---"None Dare Call It Stolen..." (August 2005):

....Finally, Democratic and/or Green observers were denied access to absentee, and/or provisional ballots, or were not allowed to monitor the recount process, in Summit, Huron, Putnam, Allen, Holmes, Mahoning, Licking, Stark, Medina, Warren, and Morgan counties. In short, the Ohio vote was never properly recounted, as required by Ohio law....

>> One last article talks about the iron-fisted leader of the Summit County Republican Party. Clevescene:

The Republican boss of Summit County revels in crushing his enemies.....

Yep. Those old white guys in the Summit County Republican Party just don't want YOUR vote to count. Remember, Jennifer Brunner is trying to have fair and honest elections, which is something the Summit County Republicans don't want.

Write a letter to the editor to support the work of Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner. Her work must be making an impact on the old GOPers.