by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
November 19, 2008
The Ohio Republican Party has escalated its attacks on democracy on two key fronts.
It’s trying to steal a hotly contested Congressional seat. And it’s moving to restrict voting rights for coming elections.
In the bitterly embattled House race in central Ohio’s 15th Congressional District, Republican State Senator [...]
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
November 17, 2008
As the sun sets on Bush 2, it is clear that a very thin line of electoral protection preserved Barack Obama’s victory in Ohio—and the nation.
And it’s no accident the vote count battle for a Columbus-area Congressional seat still rages.
The GOP’s 2008 electoral strategy again emphasized [...]
The Kudzu Effect is named after a parasitic, rapidly growing vine that engulfs and suffocates the life beneath it. The life of a democracy is embodied by free, honest and verifiable elections.
Computerized voting, promoted by an interlocking cabal of politicaloperatives [...]
Bob Fitrakis
February 24, 2004
The Governor of Ohio, Bob Taft, and other prominent state officials, commute to their downtown Columbus offices on Broad Street. This is the so-called “Golden Finger,” the safe route through the majority black inner-city near east side. The Broad Street BP station, just east of downtown, is the place where affluent suburbanites [...]
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
November 3, 2008
Barack Obama is heading to Election Day with a razor thin 6 point lead in the popular polls in Ohio, according to the usually reliable Columbus Dispatch poll. This means that the Buckeye state could again decide who enters the White House in January, despite the fact that [...]