Bush, Resnick Elections Won't Die

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President Bush is almost midway through his second term and Ohio Supreme Court Justice Alice Robie Resnick is in the last months of her final term, but the elections that got them there are still the subject of contention in Ohio courts and political circles.


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This month, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s article in Rolling Stone magazine detailing the 2004 Ohio election rekindled the debate. However, one elections expert said it's time to let it go and focus on problems that still could harm Ohio elections. ``I think it's pretty clear, based on the original evidence, the (2004) outcome wasn't affected,'' said Daniel Tokaji, an assistant professor of law at Ohio State University. ``It's much less important than focusing on the problems with the election systems ... that haven't been fixed yet.''

The lessons learned in 2004 are valuable as Ohio moves into the electronic voting age, said Cliff Arnebeck, a lawyer who was active in some of the lawsuits focusing on the 2004 race. ``The framing I have in mind for litigation is to look at what is being set up for '06 and say we're not speculating that people are willing to suppress the vote, we have the proof,'' Arnebeck said. ``It's a positive view of the evidence of fraud in '04.'' Peg Rosenfield, elections specialist for the League of Women Voters of Ohio, said her group never challenged Bush's election, just the way it was run. ``The whole point of our lawsuit was to look toward the future,'' she said.


The state's transition into using electronic voting machines, required by federal law, has been marred by glitches, especially in Cuyahoga County, where the results from the May 2 primary were delayed six days when roughly 18,000 absentee ballots had to be hand counted. Lawyers are still trying to work out a settlement in a case prompted by the Resnick election nearly six years ago, which was marked by TV ads paid for by a business-backed group known as Citizens for a Strong Ohio.


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1. "time to let it go"

yeah, like the Republicans let go the 1960 elections . . .