Secretary of State of Ohio

Ken Blackwell

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Bryan Flannery

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Ken Blackwell

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Bryan Flannery

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instructing county boards to reject voter-registration forms not printed on at least 80-pound-weight paper stock; rescinded nearly three weeks later, five days before the registration deadline, after backlash from voting-rights advocates.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

Bryan Flannery

1. September 2002 · statement

   Publicly called Ken Blackwell's office's 'vote fraud' warning posters -- which bore Blackwell's printed signature while Blackwell was himself a candidate -- 'unethical,' 'arrogant' and 'criminal.' The Ohio Elections Commission initially found this violated the false-campaign-statement law but declined to refer it for prosecution; courts later reversed that finding, ruling county election officials had in fact quietly removed Blackwell's name from the general-election posters specifically to avoid this controversy, giving Flannery's statements a rational basis.

   Ohio Elections Commission, September 5, 2002: violated Ohio's false-campaign-statement law, R.C. 3517.21(B)(4) and (10) · the source

   Franklin County Court of Common Pleas (May 13, 2003) and the Ohio Tenth District Court of Appeals (February 10, 2004): no clear-and-convincing evidence of actual malice; his statements had a rational basis · the source

   Source: caselaw.findlaw.com

2. 1999 · bill

   As an Ohio House member, sponsored or introduced more than a dozen bills, including House Bill 398 (a statewide K-12 education-standards commission), House Bill 390 (property-tax relief for senior/disabled homeowners), House Bill 577 (background-check authority for firearms dealers regarding buyers a court had found unable to manage their own affairs), and House Bill 376 (limiting closed-door legislative 'working group' meetings). This project did not verify enactment status for these bills.

   Source: citybeat.com

Ken Blackwell

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Where the money went, as filed

From	To	Dollars	Share of total	Note
Raised	Spent	1,152,088.18	77.5%
Other funds (derived)	Spent	107,911.82	7.3%
Raised	Cash on hand	207,911.82	14.0%
Other funds (derived)	Cash on hand	19,474.33	1.3%

Totals as filed

OhioSOS, as of December 11, 2002: raised $1,360,000, spent $1,260,000, cash on hand $227,386.

Source: www6.ohiosos.gov

Top donors, as filed

None found in the records checked

Outside spending

None found in the records checked

In-state share

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Bryan Flannery

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Where the money went, as filed

From	To	Dollars	Share of total	Note
Raised	Spent	265,928.14	17.9%
Raised	Not in the filed totals (derived)	89,753.99	6.0%	Derived: raised exceeds spent plus cash on hand in this filing; the difference is not itemized in the totals filed.

Totals as filed

OhioSOS, as of December 31, 2002: raised $355,682, spent $265,928.

Source: www6.ohiosos.gov

Top donors, as filed

• Ohio Democratic Party State Candidate Fund · $73,286 · party committee

  Ohio Democratic Party's state candidate fund

  Source: www6.ohiosos.gov

• Ohio Democratic Party · $44,984 · party committee

  Ohio Democratic Party

  Source: www6.ohiosos.gov

Outside spending

None found in the records checked

In-state share

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