We've seen this (Cuyahoga vote) mess before

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/brent_larkin/index.ssf?/base/opinion/117472535390250.xml&coll=2
Firing the Board of Elections threatens to become a tradition

Sunday, March 25, 2007
Brent Larkin
Plain Dealer Columnist

The man known far and wide as the "happy warrior" was any thing but when he stormed into the offices of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections on the afternoon of May 2, 1972.

Senator and former Vice President Hubert Humphrey's political future was on the line that day in Ohio. Only a win in this state's presidential primary election would keep alive Humphrey's campaign against the Democratic front-runner, Sen. George McGovern. And to win here, Humphrey needed his many friends in organized labor to deliver a big vote in Cuyahoga County.

For Humphrey, step one of getting a big vote was that the good people of Cuyahoga County be able to vote. And on this particular day, tens of thousands of them were not, prompting Humphrey to sputter that what happened here was the "greatest disgrace I've seen in public life."

Anyone who doubts the adage about history repeating itself should look no further than the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, where embarrassment has been a frequent visitor over the last 35 years...








http://www.lakewoodbuzz.com/RoldoBartimole/RB-07-21-04.html
...Political reporting at the PD essentially is the domain of the editorial page boss Brent Larkin. As such just about nothing of political significance gets exposure in the PD without his imprimatur. Larkin, even with his dedication to the party line, seems to have gotten lazier and lazier. He produces less and he doesn’t allow others much leeway in giving the PD readership some insight into what’s going on...