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Ken Blackwell: 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.
Action · October 2002
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- Date
- 2002-10
- Evaluations
- ACLU of Ohio, October 2002 federal lawsuit (Stewart v. Blackwell)
- https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-victorious-challenge-ohios-punch-card-ballots
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- the technology had a racially disparate impact under the Voting Rights Act
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- https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-victorious-challenge-ohios-punch-card-ballots
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- action
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- 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.
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