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Kerry Channels Gore
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Aug 31, 2006 03:55pm |
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| Category | General |
| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Thursday, August 31, 2006 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Politics: In a fundraising e-mail, Sen. John Kerry charges that Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell tried to "suppress the Democratic vote." But it wasn't Blackwell who paid off registrars with cocaine.
Kerry sent the e-mail to 100,000 Democratic donors Tuesday asking them to support U.S. Rep. Ted Strickland for governor of Ohio in his race against Secretary of State Blackwell. In it, echoing earlier charges that Blackwell stole the 2004 election for Bush in Ohio, Kerry charged Blackwell "used the power of his state office to try to intimidate Ohioans and suppress the Democratic vote."
Among Blackwell's alleged attempts to "suppress" the vote in 2006 is his effort to actually enforce an election reform bill signed by Gov. Bob Taft on Jan. 31. That measure requires voters to prove their identity with, say, a driver's license. If they can't, they can still cast a provisional ballot that would be evaluated later.
Particularly onerous to Democrats is a rule written by Blackwell to enforce the new law. That rule requires that paid circulators of voter registration cards return them either to county boards of elections or to the secretary of state's office, not to the group paying the circulators.
Kerry has not ventured an opinion on the effort of Georgianne Pitts in Defiance County. According to the Toledo Blade, she told the Defiance County sheriff she was working on behalf of the NAACP National Voter Fund and admitted to giving crack cocaine in lieu of cash to a young worker who supplied her with completed voter registration forms. Among those listed on the forms were Mary Poppins, Jeffrey Dahmer and Janet Jackson.
While charging voter fraud and manipulation in Ohio in 2004, as Gore did in Florida in 2000, Kerry opposes attempts to ensure voting integrity, such as requiring voters to actually show up at the polls and once there proving with valid ID they are who they say they are. He supports gimmicks such as motor voter, vote by mail |
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