No matter what, Ken Blackwell will try to do whatever it takes to steal another election in Ohio:
Democrats and representatives of voter-registration groups accused Secretary of State Ken Blackwell on Monday of trying to rig this November’s election by publishing draconian new rules governing the activities of people who register voters.
Testifying at a hearing chaired by Judy Grady, Blackwell’s director of elections, lawyers for ACORN, Common Cause, the Ohio Democratic Party and other groups said training documents drafted by Blackwell’s office are so vague that they subject registrars to felony penalties for even inadvertent violations.
As a result, ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has drastically cut back its voter-registration efforts while its lawyers review the new rules, Katy Gall, Ohio ACORN’s head organizer, said in an interview.
Gall said ACORN has registered 35,000 voters in six Ohio cities since February. Its goal is 130,000.
Samuel Gresham, an attorney for Common Cause, charged that the rules are “part of a consistent pattern, intentionally so,” by Blackwell to disenfranchise black, low-income and Democratic voters.
Of course Blackwell wants to try to suppress voter registration in Ohio. The majority of the state is Republican and he is running for governor this year. If he can keep new voters from registering and becoming Democrats that gives him a greater chance at defeating Ted Strickland this fall.
Funny how Blackwell creates these new rules yet his office received no punishment for releasing personal information on voters a couple months ago. He is truly a definition of corruption and an enemy of democracy and the American way.