{"id":31241,"date":"2012-11-06T10:51:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T17:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/john-husted-tries-to-become-the-new-katherine-harris.html"},"modified":"2012-11-06T10:51:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T17:51:40","slug":"john-husted-tries-to-become-the-new-katherine-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/john-husted-tries-to-become-the-new-katherine-harris.html","title":{"rendered":"John Husted tries to become the new Katherine Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harris was the Republican\u00a0Secretary of State for Florida who played such a charming role in the 2000 recount brouhaha.<\/p>\n

Husted is the Republican Secretary of State for Ohio who's played such a charming role in the 2012 election to skew and\/or reduce early voting, mess around with voting rolls and provisional ballots, and now …<\/p>\n

I mean, you simply don't update critical software right before it's about to be used for something important,<\/i> unless it simply won't work otherwise.That's basic good IT practice.<\/p>\n

And here we are, with Husted okaying right before the election — an election where Ohio is once again expected to be the lynchpin state — the installation of "experimental" and unchecked software patches on the county tabulation systems, ostensibly to provide easier reporting of info to the secretary of state's office.<\/p>\n

He couldn't do more to arouse suspicion of\u00a0shenanigans if he was lurking around polling places and offering voters piece of candy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Harris was the Republican\u00a0Secretary of State for Florida who played such a charming role in the 2000 recount brouhaha. Husted is the Republican Secretary of State for Ohio who's played such a charming role in the 2012 election to skew and\/or reduce early voting, mess around with voting rolls and provisional ballots, and now … … Continue reading “John Husted tries to become the new Katherine Harris”<\/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":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30673,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/theres-more-than-one-way-to-suppress-a-voter.html","url_meta":{"origin":31241,"position":0},"title":"There's more than one way to suppress a voter","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 18-Oct-12 9:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"Dragged kicking and screaming by two federal court decisions (and a rejection from SCOTUS) to reinstate rull early voting for all voters, Ohio GOP Secretary of State John Husted is playing around with the hours of early voting centers to make it more difficult to find out when voting is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29871,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/16\/a-level-if-low-playing-field-in-ohio.html","url_meta":{"origin":31241,"position":1},"title":"A level, if low, playing field in Ohio","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 16-Aug-12 9:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ohio's popular early voting law -- a response to major crowds and difficulty getting into vote in 2004 -- was done away with earlier this year. 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