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Ohio elections workers on trial
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| Contributor | The Sunset Provision |
| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision Jan 18, 2007 12:38pm |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Thursday, January 18, 2007 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | county elections workers conspired to avoid a more thorough recount of ballots in the 2004 presidential election, a prosecutor told jurors during opening statements Thursday.
"The evidence will show that this recount was rigged, maybe not for political reasons, but rigged nonetheless," Prosecutor Kevin Baxter said. "They did this so they could spend a day rather than weeks or months" on the recount, he said.
Jacqueline Maiden, the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections' coordinator, faces six counts of misconduct over how the ballots were reviewed. Rosie Grier, manager of the board's ballot department, and Kathleen Dreamer, an assistant manager, face the same charges.
Defense attorneys said in their opening statements that the workers in Ohio's most populous county did nothing out of the ordinary and hid nothing from the public.
"They just were doing it the way they were always doing it," said defense attorney Roger Synenberg, representing Dreamer.
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