Especially if you're in Ohio, please contact the ACLU of Ohio

and ask them to sue Matt Damschroder for depriving black neighborhoods in Franklin County of enough voting machines.

This violates the "Equal Protection of the Law" required of states bythe US Constitution.

Some people had to wait several hours to vote.

The ACLU of Ohio can be contacted as follows:
Phone (216) 472-2200 | Fax: (216) 472-2210

email:
contact@acluohio.org

website:
http://www.acluohio.org /

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Free Press article which includes information on Franklin County

http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/983


In Franklin County, where Franklin County Board of Elections Director Matt Damschroder is also the former Executive Director of the county’s Republican Party, the county Board of Elections building looked like a bunker. Scores of city buses blocked parking spaces on the street outside, numerous concrete barricades surrounded the parking lot, and a metal detector was stationed at the only entrance.

A phalanx of armed deputy sheriffs swarmed the only site where provisional voters could cast a guaranteed ballot.

The Columbus Dispatch confirmed an Election Day Free Press story that far fewer voting machines were present in predominantly black Democratic inner-city voting wards than in the recent primary election and the 2000 presidential election, with their lighter turnouts. The reduced number of machines caused voters to wait up to seven hours and wait an average of approximately three hours. One Republican Central Committee member told the Free Press that Damschroder held back as many as 2000 machines and dispersed many of the other machines to affluent suburbs in Franklin County.
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There are probably grounds for these sorts of lawsuits elsewhere, as well.

:kick:

the election elsewhere, take them to court.

kick