FBI looking at B. Noe (lady who got fired from Lucas County BOE)

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051112/NEWS24/51112003

It also reveals, for the first time, that prosecutors believed that Mr. Noe’s wife, Bernadette, was involved.

In laying out its evidence, the FBI felt there was “probable cause to believe that” Mr. and Mrs. Noe had “conspired” to violate federal campaign-finance laws.

In one instance, Mrs. Noe was present when Mr. Noe exchanged checks for the fund-raiser, according to the FBI’s affidavit.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0805-22.htm

Election day in Ohio 2004 was defined by partisan chaos, confusion and theft everywhere in the state. But the Noe's Toledo was uniquely rife with corruption and illegality.

Well before election day, Lucas County's Democratic headquarters was broken into. Key voter data went missing.

On November 2, inner city voting machines mysteriously broke down en masse. Polls opened late. The Toledo Blade has reported that the sole machine at the Birmingham polling site in east Toledo broke down around 7 a.m. By order of Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, no paper ballots were available for backup.

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But the election in Lucas County had become so infamous that on April 8, Blackwell fired the entire County Board of Elections. Bernadette Noe had announced her plans to resign in December, 2004. But Blackwell's desperate move was a slap in her face, especially since the Secretary of State himself is at center stage in deepening disputes over how Ohio's 2004 election might have been stolen. Blackwell served as Ohio's Bush-Cheney co-chair while running what he claimed to be a fair election.