[E-voting] Ohio to use paper ballots !!

[David O'Callaghan]

On 18/01/05 23:40, vote at electronic-vote.org wrote:
> Ohio's Secretary of State Ken Blackwell announced on Jan, 12th a 
> directive by which all 88 Ohio counties must adopt a voting system of 
> paper ballots, marked by hand and read by optical-scanning devices (PCOS).
> http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/110561239920 
> 8372.xml
>    More information on the Ohio state website:
> http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/news/index1.htm
> What do you think about Mr. Blackwell's directive?

My response to the directive is tempered by Mr. Blackwell's own conduct 
as Secretary of State for Ohio and *simultaneously* as co-chair of the 
Bush/Cheney 2004 campaign in Ohio.

See http://rawstory.rawprint.com/105/blackwell_campaign_letter2_105.php 
for a sample of Mr. Blackwell's attitude: he boasts about "delivering" 
the election to Bush and about declaring the result before the votes 
were counted. Reading stories about discrepencies in Ohio, and the 
Secretary of State's actions restricting election monitors and recounts, 
it seems clear that his partisan views interfered with his ability to 
run a fair election.

David
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