It’s Sunday, so Cragg Hines offers up some of his very insightful political insight. Today he’s concerned with voting irregularities in Ohio:
CANTON, Ohio — Linda Fogle hurries from the Stark County Board of Elections to her car in a space reserved for absentee voters. On Election Day, the retired medical assistant already will be in Arizona for the winter. She drove downtown to vote early because she found the mail-in ballot confusing. She didn’t like the punch-card version at the elections office much better.
Was she confident that her votes — all for Democrats, she said — would be tallied, and correctly? Fogle shrugged.
Who knows what the Chronicle pays Hines, but the editors are not getting their money’s worth, because Hines wrote an entire column focused on Democrats worrying about a Republican secretary of state, without a single example of any actual problems. If Hines had spent thirty seconds on Google, he would have discovered several stories in the news of suspicious voter registration in Ohio. Wonder why he didn’t use any of these examples?
One more note on Hines’ column – this sentence is a keeper:
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, leading another get-out-the-vote effort for Democrats, said Blackwell already has “a credibility gap” and “could shift Florida’s embarrassment to Ohio.”
It might be more helpful to Hines’ point if he found someone else to utter the words “credibility gap.”
