Ohio's GOP are NOT happy about voting in yesterday's primary election in Ohio.
Why?
Because it went off so successfully.
The ORP using their media machine, has been predicting a doomsday scenario for the primary voting process ever since that secret meeting they held in January with Republican Election Officials.
With Deputy Chairman, Ohio Republican Party Kevin Dewine, heir apparent to out going Chairman Bob Bennett, as the mouthpiece, they have been releasing press release after press release disparging every action Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner has taken to restore trust to Ohio Voting.
Of course, the copy and paste media printed their claims in what a conspiritist would say indicates some level of coordination in helping to get their messages against Secretary Brunner out into the main stream media.
It was actually funny yesterday to read the Ohio GOP's State of the Union blog as they breathlessly posted any "news" that seemed negative at all and issued press releases themselves and then respun those press releases from the ORP as if they were actually breaking news.
Some examples:
Do you know where your ballot is?
Jennifer Brunner's board of elections in Cuyahoga County doesn't. From a ORP press release:
12:15 a.m. Update from Cuyahoga CountyOur observer on the scene of the ballot counting process in Cuyahoga County describes it as "pure chaos."
Brunner botches Election Day ballot securityFrom The Plain Dealer:
In a statement, the Ohio Republican Party called on the Cuyahoga County prosecutor to investigate an apparent violation of state election law in the collection and transportation of ballots during polling hours.
They hoped and they hoped, but even with weather issues across the state and a few minor glitches, the vote went off exceedingly well.
Expecially when compared with this analysis of 2004 Ohio voting under Republican SoS Kenneth Blackwell from The New York Times:
From seven-hour lines that drove voters away to malfunctioning machines to poorly trained poll workers who directed people to the wrong polling places to uneven policies about the use of provisional ballots, Ohio has become this year's example for every ailment in the United States' electoral process.
That's what the GOP was hoping for yesterday . . . anything that even approached the voting fiascos created in Ohio under a Republican Secretary of State.
The didn't get it.
Congratulations Secretary Brunner!