Blackwell's office had secret slush funds and Perry County lawsuit

[WiseFawn]

~"New affidavits point to possible criminal activity by top Ohio election officials, raising yet more questions about the 2004 vote. Rhonda J. Frazier, a former employee of the Ohio Secretary of State's office, has confirmed in an affidavit taken by Cynthia Butler, working with freepress.org, that the Office had secret slush funds. Frazier says it also failed to comply with the requirements of "The Voting Reform Grant" that required all the voting machines in Ohio to be inventoried and tagged for security reasons.

"I was routinely told to violate the bidded contracts to order supplies from other companies for all 17 Secretary of State offices throughout the State which were cheaper vendors, leaving a cash surplus differential in the budget," Frazier states, "After complaining about the office's repeated practices of violating grants and contracts I was fired."

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/996

~"Citing voting irregularities, Democrat Bill Crane is asking the courts to overturn Republican Larry Householder’s election last month to the Perry County auditor’s office.

Crane filed a lawsuit Thursday in Common Pleas Court against the outgoing Ohio House Speaker and the Perry County Board of Elections, alleging that the number of votes exceeded the number of people who signed voting books in at least 11 of 46 precincts."

http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2004/12/18/20041218-B1-00.html&rfr=nwsl&chck=t