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Blackwell To Testify On Ohio Elections Before Committee


Testimony To Begin At Noon

UPDATED: 9:15 am EST March 21, 2005

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The state's chief elections official has a message for those who say Ohio's Nov. 2 election was fraught with unpreparedness, mistakes and fraud: Take a closer look.

Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell was scheduled to testify at a field hearing of the U.S. House Administration Committee on Monday, more than a month after failing to appear at the panel's first post-election hearing in Washington.

The hearing is scheduled to begin at about noon, NBC 4 reported.

U.S. Rep. Bob Ney, an Ohio Republican and the committee's chairman, took Blackwell's absence as a snub, especially because Blackwell was in Washington the same day to lead a meeting of the nonpartisan Campaign Finance Institute.

more: http://www.nbc4i.com/politics/4302664/detail.html