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santone006
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santone006
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I could certainly be biased, but isn't having someone removed because they disagree with you a tad bit shady? I don't buy her grievances of sloppy voting, because if that were the case wouldn't the board have more unanimously voted him out rather then keep him around?
Seems like politics at it's finest.
.matthew
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Mercurius
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COST TO SWITCH VOTING MACHINES SOARS TO NEARLY $64 MILLION, SECRETARY OF STATE SAYS
The price tag for Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's plan to replace electronic voting machines has more than doubled to nearly $64 million since she first called for all counties to switch to optical scan ballots by the November election.
That's because the initial estimates of $31 million were dependent on certain other changes she had proposed, Ms. Brunner told reporters after a news conference Friday. However, local election officials told her that altering the process too much in too little time could jeopardize the general election.
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santone006
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Exactly, I just don't get what she is trying to do other then look important by changing everything and firing anyone that disagrees.
However, local election officials told her that altering the process too much in too little time could jeopardize the general election.
And now those officials are being forced out?
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lazyfish
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santone006 wrote I could certainly be biased, but isn't having someone removed because they disagree with you a tad bit shady? I don't buy her grievances of sloppy voting, because if that were the case wouldn't the board have more unanimously voted him out rather then keep him around?
Seems like politics at it's finest.
.matthew
Damshroder is a tool and is to blame for much of the election mess in 2004 in Franklin County when 41 voting machines sat idle at the
BOE and many of us stood in line for 3+ hours to vote. Democrat William Anthony is equally as bad, nice to see the two political parties cooperating to retain power...the buried lead was Damshroder is bering kept on the payroll to the tune of $11,500/month, not bad for government work.
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santone006
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Damshroder is a tool and is to blame for much of the election mess in 2004 in Franklin County when 41 voting machines sat idle at the
BOE and many of us stood in line for 3+ hours to vote. Democrat William Anthony is equally as bad, nice to see the two political parties cooperating to retain power...the buried lead was Damshroder is bering kept on the payroll to the tune of $11,500/month, not bad for government work.
Thank you for your deep and compelling insight. I'll be pleased when the state shells out $65+ million on new machines and you wait 8+ hours in line this November.
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Andrew Hall
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Pretty much what lazyfish said.
It has been six years since HAVA and there is four years of immediate backstory to this and two years of Brunner's involvement. The local BOEs have been a scam and a cooperative effort between drinking buddies (so to speak) regardless of party affliation. The 'politics as usual' is cronyism, not Brunner attempting to do her job and make up for the abuse and neglect in the office during Blackwell's tenure. It is repulsive that Damschoder is getting paid.
White, btw, is the total fucktard responsible for the complete incompetence of the DP in '04. Aside from gross ineptitude, amusingly he let illiterate volunteers send out personally addressed email under his account.
I am getting really annoyed at this kvetching and bitching about the cost of elections and getting the right. Isn't voting the essence of our governmental process? Isn't having a process that not only accurately reflects the votes, but transparently does so more important than relative nickels and dimes?
A.
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lazyfish
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santone006 wrote
Damshroder is a tool and is to blame for much of the election mess in 2004 in Franklin County when 41 voting machines sat idle at the
BOE and many of us stood in line for 3+ hours to vote. Democrat William Anthony is equally as bad, nice to see the two political parties cooperating to retain power...the buried lead was Damshroder is bering kept on the payroll to the tune of $11,500/month, not bad for government work.
Thank you for your deep and compelling insight. I'll be pleased when the state shells out $65+ million on new machines and you wait 8+ hours in line this November.
ah irony, if Ken Backwell hadn't spent so much time and $$$ sending contracts to his well connected political cronies (Diebold, ESS, Sequoia), we would not be nearly as deep in as we are now...I blame Blackwell far more than Brunner...also consider the source, the Dispatch clearly has a dog in this fight...why no outrage when election protection advocates tried to get the state to open up the certification process for electronic machines way back in 2000 and 2004...Brunner is open to criticism primarily because the process is far more transparent and open now, than it was under Blackwell and the Rethuglicians...openness+criticism=democracy, secrecy+ political opportunism= fascism
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Brewmaster
Portland, OR
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Andrew Hall wrote I am getting really annoyed at this kvetching and bitching about the cost of elections and getting the right. Isn't voting the essence of our governmental process? Isn't having a process that not only accurately reflects the votes, but transparently does so more important than relative nickels and dimes?
A.
So how much is too much? $65 million seems like a boatload to pay for absolute certainty. I'm not saying that ensuring that each vote counts isn't important, but at what cost? $10 million? $100 million? $1 billion?
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Mercurius
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Last time I checked, Ohio has a projected deficit of $1.3 to $1.7 billion. I trust the accuracy of new machines and get tired of all of the Diebold conspiracy crap. Why waste money to get new optical scanning machines? Diebold is an Ohio company.
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santone006
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White, btw, is the total fucktard responsible for the complete incompetence of the DP in '04. Aside from gross ineptitude, amusingly he let illiterate volunteers send out personally addressed email under his account.
That is exactly my point. I don't disagree with you on the larger picture at all, I just don't understand why White is being put back in charge if she's so concerned about sloppy voting procedures.
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lazyfish
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santone006 wrote
White, btw, is the total fucktard responsible for the complete incompetence of the DP in '04. Aside from gross ineptitude, amusingly he let illiterate volunteers send out personally addressed email under his account.
That is exactly my point. I don't disagree with you on the larger picture at all, I just don't understand why White is being put back in charge if she's so concerned about sloppy voting procedures.
after semmingly decades? or 16 years wandering in the wilderness, the Democratic party in 06 took power due less to their competence, than general disdain for the R's. After Celeste and the imposition of term limits the old bosses faded away, the grass roots withered and the D's seemed like Roves permanent minority...the franklin county party has been centrist and DLC inspired, disconnected from the progressives and liberals, who they knew would always choose the lesser of two evils. Prior to 06, I wasn't convinced the state party knew how it piss itself, now it seems demographics and disdain has swung the pendulum back to the D's, a gift bestowed from above, more than real grass roots organizing...some notable exceptions do exist in Cleveland, Toledo..but those folks have always know about organization and big city politics.
Denny White is a former Republican who saw the start of the turning tide in the 90's and switched parties...I'm not sure of any singular accomplishment he has to his credit?
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