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20
How ya’ll doing with your scorecard of Ohio voter & election law legal actions? Be sure to mark this one:
Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters is asking that about 600 votes cast between Sept. 30-Oct. 6 be quarantined and not counted until Ohio officials look into allegations of voter fraud.
“There are stricter standards in Ohio to buy beer than to vote,” Deters said today.
“We know of certain voter fraud.”
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Deters’ office began receiving complaints about possible voter fraud a few weeks ago.
Deters wants those 610 ballots to be set aside until they are proved to have been cast by legal Hamilton County residents.
Now, they are scheduled to be commingled with other early votes – including the vote cast today by Deters’ mother — by the end of the week.
Anyone see trouble already? If the complaints started to come in “a few weeks ago,” why did Deters wait until Oct. 17 to file anything? Not to mention, the Golden Week ended less than two weeks ago – that ain’t a few.
Likewise, it’s reasonable to assume that Deters, in his position as a McCain campaign chair for the Southwest of Ohio, should know that there would be objections to him filing the request and he should have taken this action at the start:
After complaints of partisanship, Deters took his office out of the [grand jury] investigation. Deters is the southwest Ohio regional chairman of the McCain for president campaign.
Of course, given the replacement, I’m really not sure how the partisanship thing is solved:
Mike O’Neill, 31, a former assistant Hamilton County prosecutor, was appointed special prosecutor today by Common Pleas Court Judge Norbert Nadel.
O’Neill was hired by then-Prosecutor Mike Allen and worked for Deters for a year before becoming a private attorney.
O’Neill and Deters suggested the investigation won’t be completed before the Nov. 4 election.
Addionally, today’s statement by Ohio Republican Party Deputy Director Kevin DeWine, in which he expresses concern for scaring Ohio voters, seems to indicate that he’s doing that projecting thing just like MN Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and John McCain.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:10 pm October 20th, 2008 in Courts, Law, Ohio, Politics, Voting, WH2008
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So the Rethuglicans in Ohio (no doubt channeling their patron saint Ken Blackwell) are actively trying to steal Ohio for McCain just like they stole Ohio for Bush in 2004?
I am shocked, shocked!!
As always, Jill beats me to the punch. But for what it’s worth:
http://www.buckeyestateblog.com/hamilton_county_gop_voters_are_presumed_fraudulent_until_we_prove_otherwise