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In Cuyahoga County (Cleveland), the head of the election board is a democrat....
I know because I served on the board back in 1995. What an experience that was....
Anyway, there are four board members, two each elected by the executive committee of the two major parties. The exeecutive committee members are elected by the Precinct Committe people or appointed by the County Chair. This is in the Ohio Revised Code.
The Executive Director is from one party and the Chairman of the board is of the other party......
There are the same number of democrats as republicans working for the board on a full time basis.....
It is like working in the DMZ......
Anyway, I know from first hand experience that the boards are full of politically appointed people who are sometimes not the, how shall I say this, best person for the job. This happens from BOTH Party's.
After my time at the board, I was amazed that anything actually got done.....
Still, there are so many people from the other party looking over your shoulder that it is almost impossible to get something deliberately wrong....
I think most of the problems arise from the fact that the people at the various boards of election in Ohio are overwhelmed by the amount of pre election activity and the intensity from the outside world.....
So, take it from someone who has sat on a board and had to deal with all the minor as wll as the few major problems that came up, most are just caused by people who are in positions for political reasons and not because they know anything about running elections.....
Am I excusing all the FU's? Hell now, just giving you a little "inside" perspective from someone whose been there, done that.......
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