Reply #12: GOOD question, after all -- Blackwell's job description states that he

[KaliTracy]

The Job Description of the Secretary of State in Ohio: http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos /

The Duties on the Ohio Secretary of State website state:
Chief Elections Officer
As Ohio's chief election officer, Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell oversees the elections process and appoints the members of boards of elections each of Ohio's 88 counties.

He supervises the administration of election laws; approves ballot language; reviews statewide initiative and referendum petitions, chairs the Ohio Ballot Board, which approves ballot language for statewide issues; canvasses votes for all elective state offices and issues; investigates election frauds and irregularities; trains election officials and reimburses counties for poll worker training costs.

The Elections Division compiles and maintains election statistics, political party records and other election-related records. Statewide candidates' campaign finance reports are filed with the office, together with the reports for state political action committees (PACs), state political parties and legislative caucus campaign committees.

{emphasis mine}

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Conyers was right to direct questions at him -- but the fact that it wasn't many local people (Besides Tubbs-Jones and all of the FreePress Folk), and certainlym not many (if at all) law enforcement people sits hollow in my stomach. Like how I felt when I woke up to the announcement that * won.... and I knew that something was very, very wrong...