{"id":31136,"date":"2012-11-05T11:06:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T18:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/election-shenanigans-in-ohio.html"},"modified":"2012-11-06T09:33:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T16:33:07","slug":"election-shenanigans-in-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/election-shenanigans-in-ohio.html","title":{"rendered":"Election shenanigans in Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"

I'd like to think I would object to these kind of tactics regardless of the partisan politics behind them. \u00a0This particular list is nothing new, but a good summary of Husted's actions this political season (though it leaves out his earlier casting deciding votes in a GOP-leaning fashion for individual counties that were considering early voting hours – https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/16\/a-level-if-low-playing-field-in-ohio.html<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Having elections run by partisan politicians, of any<\/i> party, seems a guaranteed way to ensure problems with fair elections.<\/p>\n

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I'd like to think I would object to these kind of tactics regardless of the partisan politics behind them. \u00a0This particular list is nothing new, but a good summary of Husted's actions this political season (though it leaves out his earlier casting deciding votes in a GOP-leaning fashion for individual counties that were considering early … Continue reading “Election shenanigans in Ohio”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7478,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/02\/23\/a_match_made_in.html","url_meta":{"origin":31136,"position":0},"title":"A match made in the bitterly brilliant bowels of Hell itself","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Feb-05 1:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not only is it highly unlikely to happen, but it would be an election that would make the partisan rhetoric in 2004 look like an elderly ladies' church social. 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