Hubris, thy name is Blackwell.
I still get e-mails from Yahoo Keyword News about any articles discussing Kenneth Blackwell, but I haven't been actively updating Ohio Counts for a while. This I just had to share--it is such an example of jaw-dropping hubris for Blackwell to say that Ohio's provisional balloting system is a "model" for other states.
Moments after Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell told a federal panel Wednesday that Ohio's provisional ballot system is a "model for other states," the director of Ohio's largest county elections board came to the opposite conclusion.
Citing late directives from Blackwell's office and other problems last fall, Michael Vu, director of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, said more must be done to clarify the process and update state law.
"Ohio's provisional voting experience was not the model ... for the nation to follow," Vu, a Democrat, said Wednesday at a national public hearing of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission at Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law.
Blackwell, a Republican, agreed that the state's elections system can be improved. But he noted his actions were upheld in court and said Ohio's process produced one of the highest rate of valid provisional ballots in the nation this past fall - 77 percent of 159,539 cast.
"I don't think that we should be overly critical of a system that worked," Blackwell said after the hearing.
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