Crossposted at Howard-Empowered People
Just found out a couple days ago that Bob Fitrakis is running for governor of Ohio. If his name sounds familiar, you may remember reading his articles about the voting irregularities in the 2004 election. He is running as the candidate of the Ohio Green Party.
I know that many Democrats tend to get upset about third party candidates (e.g. the mantra “A vote for Nader is a vote for Bush”, and Ken Blackwell is one scary dude. On the other hand, with Fitrakis in the election, the issue of elections reform could not be brushed aside, and would have to be addressed. I mean, how many of us are thinking that, even if the Democratic candidate gets more votes, Secretary of State J. Katherine Blackwell would manage to steal the election.
Anyway, I do recommend checking out his site, especially, as I mentioned earlier, his call for citizens to pressure boards of elections to issue photo IDs to the poor and at nursing homes and college campuses.
