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Date:  Sat Nov 6, 2004  7:16 am

Subject:  FWD:NOBODY ALLOWED TO WITNESS OHIO VOTE TALLY
 
 
 

Warren's vote tally walled off

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Alone in Ohio, officials cited homeland security
 
 
By Erica Solvig
Enquirer staff writer
 
 

LEBANON - Citing concerns about potential terrorism, Warren County
officials locked down the county administration building on election
night and blocked anyone from observing the vote count as the nation
awaited Ohio's returns.
 
 
 
County officials say they took the action Tuesday night for homeland
security, although state elections officials said they didn't know of
any other Ohio county that closed off its elections board. Media
organizations protested, saying it violated the law and the public's
rights. The Warren results, delayed for hours because of long lines
that extended voting past the scheduled close of polls, were part of
the last tallies that helped clinch President Bush's re-election.
 
 
"The media should have been permitted into the area where there was
counting," Enquirer attorney Jack Greiner said. "This is a process
that should be done in complete transparency and it wasn't."
 
 
Warren County Emergency Services Director Frank Young said he had
recommended increased security based on information received from the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of
Investigation in recent weeks.
 
 
Commissioners made the security decisions in a closed-door meeting
last week, but didn't publicize the restrictions that were made until
after polls closed.
 
 
"If we were going to make a judgment, we wanted to err on the side of
caution," Commissioner Pat South said Thursday. "... Hindsight is 20-
20. There was never any intent to exclude the press.
"We were trying to protect security."
 
 
WCPO-TV (Channel 9) News Director Bob Morford said he's "never seen
anything like it." When he first heard about Warren County's building
restrictions, he said he understood concerns that too many people
could make the counting process "a circus." But he said it's never
been a problem in the past, and that the county could have set up a
security checkpoint and had people show identification.
 
 
"Frankly, we consider that a red herring," Morford said of the
county's "homeland security" reason. "That's something that's put up
when you don't know what else to put up to keep us out."
 
 
James Lee, spokesman with the Ohio Secretary of State's Office in
Columbus, said Thursday he hasn't heard of any situations similar to
Warren County's building restrictions. He said general security
concerns are decided at the local levels.
 
 
Other counties, such as Butler County, let people watch ballot
checkers through a window.
 
 
Typically, the Warren County commissioners' room is set up as a
gathering place for people to watch the votes come in. But that
wasn't done this year.
 
 
And despite being told that there would be an area with telephones
set up for the media, those who tried to get into the building on
Justice Drive were stopped by a county employee who stood guard
outside. After journalists challenged the restriction, reporters were
allowed into the building's lobby - two floors below the elections
office.
 
 
A representative of The Associated Press, which had stringers at
every Ohio board of elections site, said no such election-night
access problems were reported outside of Warren County.
 
 
County Prosecutor Rachel Hutzel said commissioners "were within their
rights" to restrict building access.
 
Having reporters and photographers around could have interfered with
the count, she said.
 

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