What if Ted Strickland is re-elected and John Kasich has to find a real job?
I hope that Ohio voters figure out that giving Jon Husted the keys to the office of Ohio Secretary of State would be like Ken Blackwell in office again. Do you remember those days when Blackwell, a Republican, controlled elections in Ohio?
The following is part of one of my previous posts:
Do you remember these Republican voting manipulations?
1. Bernadette Noe (wife of Republican "Coingate" scandalmeister, Tom Noe): (Raw Story---->)
In yet another surreal twist in Ohio's coin-gate scandal, the wife of Bush's chief Ohio fundraiser, Tom Noe who is currently embroiled in campaign finance and money laundering probes surprised poll workers and observers alike by disrupting the ballot count during the 2004 general election, RAW STORY has discovered.
Bernadette Noe, who served dual roles as chairman for the Lucas County Republican Party and the Lucas County Board of Elections, sent twelve partisans into a warehouse on Election Day, according a memo authored by Ohio's Director of Campaign Finance Richard Weghorst who was present at the time....
As indicated in the sworn testimony below, offered here for the first time, the election was engineered to make voting as difficult as possible for inner city residents, and to drive away those who could not afford to stay away from work or families, or whose health made it imprudent or impossible to endure the long, cold, wet lines......
Of course there was a shortage of voting machines in those areas that were dominated by African-American Democrats.
3. How can we forget the mess the Republicans created in Gambier, Ohio at Kenyon College when hundreds of college students had to wait for hours to vote because of the purposeful lack of voting machines?
Kenyon College website recounts the voting problems:
.....At 12:36 a.m. on election night, CNN.com posted the news that, "Even at this hour, people in Knox County are still voting. At Kenyon College some people stood in line for up to seven hours."
Bloomberg.com also observed that, "Voting in Ohio was plagued by long delays at some polling places. Voters in Gambier, the home of Kenyon College, waited more than four hours to cast their ballots. At the 1,500-student college, some voters were waiting in line after midnight." They reported that according to English professor David Lynn, poll workers told voters they might have to wait as much as five hours in order to vote....
This is just a small sample of how the Ohio GOP's culture of corruption "managed" voting in this state. Obviously, we don't want a repeat of this.
We don't need a Republican, like Jon Husted, as our Secretary of State.
Husted won't even come clean about where he really lives. Can you really trust him to conduct honest and fair elections? According to Husted's website, he wants to expand the office of Secretary of State by creating boards and committees. Shouldn't he be trying to streamline the office and follow the laws that are already on the books?