[lbo-talk] Ohio Voting Scandals: Reaching Critical Mass?

[mike larkin]

"The Columbus Free-Press has been assiduously
watchdogging the voting exceptions in Ohio. Voting
irregularities have been the subject of four community
public hearings, in Columbus, Cincinnati and
Cleveland, and the newspaper says 

A clear pattern and practice of voter
disenfranchisement is emerging.

Today the Free-Press analyzes two additional elements
in Election Day mis-management that could have played
pivotal roles in creating the results that favored
Bush in spite of primary indicators that Kerry would
be the winner.

Number one is the (mis)allocation of voting machines
to various precincts, a factor in the long lines
experienced in heavily Democratic areas. And number
two is the failure of the State Board of Elections to
provide Spanish-speaking poll workers (not to mention
failure to provide Spanish translation of ballots or
ballot instructions) in heavily Hispanic districts."

http://www.bopnews.com/archives/002517.html#2517 

		
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