Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Is Ohio the new Florida?

I still can't give in to the results of this election. Ohio decided the election this year as Florida did 4 years ago. There were many discrepencies in voting in Ohio this year as was in Florida in 2000. This year the maker of many of the voting machines, the head of Diebold Co., promised to deliver Ohio for Bush(seems pretty blatant). In 2000 Katherine Harris played a dual role as does Ken Blackwell this year -- secretary of state with control over voting procedures and co-chair of Bush's campaign in Florida and Ohio respectively.
Consider that Blackwell allowed the use of electronic machines that provided no paper record of votes. Blackwell also presided over a voting system that allowed wealthy Republican precincts more voting machines for quick, easy voting while poorer Democratic precincts fewer machines and fewer polling places causing four-hour and longer waiting lines. This is deja vu all over again.
When a judge has a conflict of interest in a case he's handling isn't it in the best interest of fairness to recuse himself. It seems there should be a bi-partisan federal investigtion into the vote count in Ohio, excluding the Katherine Harris of 2004, Ken Blackwell. I can only hope.

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