Reply #129: You're either having reading comprehension problems

[qwghlmian]

or being disingenuous.

This is from AG's letter:

a board of elections has a duty to preserve ballots in sealed containers until any possible recount or election contest is completed. The release of ballots during the time a board of elections is required to preserve them under seal is, therefore, prohibited by state law within the meaning of R.C. 149.43(A)(1)(v). Such ballots are not, therefore, “public records” for purposes of R.C. 149.43 while they remain under seal...the right of the public to inspect such ballots prior to the completion of any recount or election contest has been “otherwise provided by state or federal law.” R.C. 3501.13 does not, therefore, entitle the public to inspect ballots cast in an election until after any possible recount or election contest is completed.

Following the completion of the canvass of election returns under R.C. 3505.32, pollbooks used in an election are public records of a board of elections and are subject to public inspection

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So - the pollbooks are NOT public records until canvassing is over. Recount is canvassing. Pollbooks are not public record until after recounts are over.

This falsehood (that Blackwell has broken the law when he prevented public access to poll books during the recount) has been spread long enough.