Secretary of State of Ohio

Ken Blackwell

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Charleta Tavares

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Ken Blackwell

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Charleta Tavares

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Ken Blackwell

1. April 2006 · statement

   The Columbus Dispatch reported Blackwell had come to own 83 shares of Diebold Inc. stock -- the company that manufactured voting equipment his own office purchased for the state; Blackwell said the purchase was a financial manager's error and that he sold the shares once he learned of them. His gubernatorial campaign separately accepted a $10,000 contribution from a registered Diebold lobbyist.

   Source: brennancenter.org

2. April 2006 · statement

   Computer disks containing the Social Security numbers of roughly 5.7 million registered Ohio voters were mistakenly mailed out by his office.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

3. March 2006 · statement

   Full Social Security numbers of roughly 1.2 million Ohioans were inadvertently posted alongside business filings on the Secretary of State's website; the data remained reachable for months even after a related lawsuit settled.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

4. September 2004 · order

   Issued Directive 2004-33 instructing poll workers to withhold provisional ballots from voters whose precinct residency could not be confirmed on the spot; a federal district court and then the Sixth Circuit ruled the directive violated the Help America Vote Act.

   U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, October 26, 2004: Poll workers could not deny provisional ballots based on an on-the-spot precinct-residency determination. · the source

   Sources: courtlistener.com · brennancenter.org

5. September 2004 · order

   As Secretary of State, issued a directive instructing county boards to reject voter-registration forms not printed on at least 80-pound-weight paper stock; rescinded nearly three weeks later, five days before the registration deadline, after backlash from voting-rights advocates.

   Source: brennancenter.org

6. October 2002 · action

   As Secretary of State, continued to certify and administer punch-card and central-count optical-scan voting equipment used by roughly 69 of Ohio's 88 counties; the ACLU of Ohio filed Stewart v. Blackwell in October 2002, during this re-election campaign's general-election stretch, alleging the equipment's higher ballot-rejection rates violated the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses. The Sixth Circuit ruled for the plaintiffs in April 2006, after Blackwell had left office.

   ACLU of Ohio, October 2002 federal lawsuit (Stewart v. Blackwell): the technology had a racially disparate impact under the Voting Rights Act · the source

   Sources: aclu.org · law.justia.com

7. 2001 · action

   His 2002 re-election committee, 'Ohioans for Ken Blackwell,' raised roughly $1.36 million across the 2001-2002 cycle per Ohio Secretary of State filings, against Democratic opponent Bryan Flannery's roughly $310,000 over the same span -- a better than 4-to-1 advantage built up well before an uncontested primary.

   Source: www6.ohiosos.gov

8. 1994 · action

   As Ohio Treasurer, the state's use of Black-owned businesses in its financial and investment dealings rose from 2.8% in 1994 to 30.4% by 1999 under his push to broaden the pool of firms the office did business with.

   Source: encyclopedia.com

Charleta Tavares

1. 1993 · bill

   Over five-and-a-half years in the Ohio House, was chief sponsor of several enacted bills concentrated in housing, health and human services, including the Clean Indoor Air Act, the Housing Preservation Fund, the Living Donor Paid Leave Program, the Emergency Human Services Capital Fund, and the Responsible Property Owners Law addressing abandoned and blighted property.

   Source: ohiostatehouse.org

Ken Blackwell

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Where the money went, as filed

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Top donors, as filed

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Outside spending

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In-state share

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Charleta Tavares

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Where the money went, as filed

From	To	Dollars	Share of total	Note

Totals as filed

OhioSOS, as of December 31, 1998: raised $794,425.

Source: ballotpedia.org

Top donors, as filed

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Outside spending

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In-state share

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