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How close is the Secretary of State in Ohio (none / 0) (#16)
by JoeA on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 01:47:42 PM EST
to Ted Strickland?  i.e. How far are we to believe that he is impartial?

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He could be Strickland's brother (5.00 / 1) (#18)
by ChrisO on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 01:52:05 PM EST
and it wouldn't mean he would abuse his office to screw up the voting process. I'm guessing every Secretary of State is an elected official, and has political alliances. That doesn't mean that he or she will turn into Katherine Harris.

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I'm not sure how the Ohio thing (none / 0) (#40)
by JoeA on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 02:06:05 PM EST
turns into a "dirty trick" by even the most stretched of definitions.

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voter intimidation (none / 0) (#67)
by p lukasiak on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 02:25:48 PM EST
certified observers are certified by the state, and that certification requires that the observer understand, and abide by, the rules under which voters may and may not be challenged.

Letting just anyone challenge voters creates a potential for voter intimidation and suppression.

The question I have (as with everyone else) is how far up the ladder this thing goes.  It could be just a local/isolated -- probably some local Obama organizer screwed up, and didn't get all their observers certified, so they made copies of the Obama letter and handed them out to people.

But it may well go farther than that -- remember the whole protest over the Nevada caucuses?  That was due to the Obama campaign not reading the rules in total, and sending out false information regarding when people had to show up to participate.  So its entirely possible that someone higher up in the campaign screwed up, and thought he could get away with just giving out letters from Obama to his observers, rather than getting them certified in advance.

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