Contact info to ask OH Gov. to recuse himself from overseeing OH recount

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Please consider asking Ohio's Governor Taft to tell Ohio Secretary of State

J. Kenneth Blackwell that he must recuse himself from overseeing the Ohio

recount. I have included contact information and a sample letter.

Karen

 

Contact Governor Taft

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above.

http://governor.ohio.gov/contactthankyou.htm

 

Governor Bob Taft

30th Floor

77 South High Street

Columbus, Ohio 43215-6117

 

Phone 614-466-3555 or 614-644-HELP

Dear Governor Taft,

 

Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell must

recuse himself from overseeing the Ohio recount. Here

are some of the reasons:

 

(1) He was the chairman of the Bush campaign in Ohio.

This alone would give any certification of election

results by Blackwell the appearance of impropriety.

 

(2) His election day meeting in Columbus with

President George W. Bush and Franklin County Board of

Elections Director Matt Damschroder, widely accused of

overseeing inequitable partisan distribution of voting

machines, is highly suspicious.

 

(3) On election night, Blackwell helped cajole Kerry

into conceding prematurely by stressing the uncounted

provisional ballots without mentioning the uncounted

punch card ballots, thereby giving the false

impression that there were not enough outstanding

votes to affect the outcome.

 

(4) Blackwell has tucked away the data for total

votes cast into his " historical " archives at the

official Secretary of State website. Only by

subtracting the total votes for president from

the total votes cast can one calculate the actual

number of uncounted punch card ballots.

 

(5) Blackwell has taken down the election results from

the official Secretary of State website.

 

(6) Blackwell is actively working to stall the initial

count of provisional ballots, which even now is only

15% completed, and to delay the recount until after he

certifies the winner.

 

It is essential that we have free and fair elections,

with an open and publicly monitored count of the

votes, if we are to have anything approaching a

democracy. How can we presume to sponsor free and

fair elections in Iraq if we cannot do it in Ohio?

 

Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.

4 Fisher Street

Canton, NY 13617

(315) 379-0820

 

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