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Bryan Flannery: 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.
Statement · September 2002
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- Date
- 2002-09
- Evaluations
- Ohio Elections Commission, September 5, 2002
- https://caselaw.findlaw.com/oh-court-of-appeals/1367421.html
- Said
- violated Ohio's false-campaign-statement law, R.C. 3517.21(B)(4) and (10)
- Url
- https://caselaw.findlaw.com/oh-court-of-appeals/1367421.html
- Franklin County Court of Common Pleas (May 13, 2003) and the Ohio Tenth District Court of Appeals (February 10, 2004)
- https://caselaw.findlaw.com/oh-court-of-appeals/1367421.html
- Said
- no clear-and-convincing evidence of actual malice; his statements had a rational basis
- Url
- https://caselaw.findlaw.com/oh-court-of-appeals/1367421.html
- Kind
- statement
- What
- 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.
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