Today’s multitude of important articles that are NOT being widely discussed on blogs. Links for below articles can be found at:

http://www.ohiohonestelections.org/

Cincinnati Enquirer:
If Ken Blackwell is to become Ohio’s first black governor, he is going to need a lot of voters like Amos Robinson - black voters willing to give a conservative Republican a chance. “He’s a survivor,” Robinson, a College Hill resident, said. “He’s come up through the ranks of the Republican Party, where it has never been easy for a black candidate.” Robinson, like many other voters, has yet to make a final decision about the Ohio governor’s race.

Cleveland Plain Dealer:
“The most high-profile member of the coalition of Christian ministers who formally endorsed Ken Blackwell at a news conference on Monday was Bishop Harry Jackson, senior pastor of Hope Christian Church in Bowie, Md. Jackson chairs the High Impact Leadership Coalition, drafted a “Black Contract with America on Moral Values,” and was recently named by The Church Report as one of the 50 most influential Christians in America.”

Columbus Dispatch:
“Sen. John Kerry didn’t contest the results at the time, but now that he’s considering another run for the White House, he’s alleging election improprieties by the Ohio Republican who oversaw the deciding vote in 2004.”

Cleveland Plain Dealer:
“Robert A. Destro come on down! You’re the next contestant on Spank The Right with your host, Democratic Sen. Ray Miller. Miller, who has hammered on special counsel contracts that frequently come through the controlling board, was lathered up by Destro’s close ties to a socially conservative group. ‘What it appears to be is that he is a friend of the Secretary of State,’ said Miller, noting that Destro had given ($500 in 2005) to Ken Blackwell’s gubernatorial campaign. “His experience is on the social side—marriage law, religious law, not election matters.

Washington Post, By Richard Celeste:
“For many years election officials have kept the machinery of American democracy running in the face of sometimes overwhelming difficulties. But this November’s elections will pose unprecedented challenges to them.  For many jurisdictions, the 2006 elections will see the first large-scale use of electronic voting systems. Many organizations have learned the hard way that deployment and use of new technologies on a large scale virtually guarantee big surprises and unintended consequences: sudden system crashes, corrupted data or painfully slow systems. The usual remedies are to develop, test and evaluate small-scale prototypes before committing to organization-wide upgrades in technology, and to keep both old and new systems running for a while so that failures in the new system do not paralyze operations. Unfortunately, faced with the deadlines for deploying enhanced voting systems that were set by the Help America Vote Act of 2002, most electoral jurisdictions have been unable to follow this prudent path. That’s why we believe it will be essential this year that jurisdictions have backup and contingency plans that anticipate a wide range of possible failures in their electronic voting systems...”

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