Ohio election officials convicted of fixing recount

Two Ohio elections officials were convicted yesterday for fixing the presidential recount in their area.

CLEVELAND — Two election workers were convicted Wednesday of rigging a recount of the 2004 presidential election to avoid a more thorough review in Ohio's most populous county.

Jacqueline Maiden, elections coordinator of the Cuyahoga County Elections Board, and ballot manager Kathleen Dreamer each were convicted of a felony count of negligent misconduct of an elections employee. They also were convicted of one misdemeanor count each of failure of elections employees to perform their duty.

Prosecutors accused Maiden and Dreamer of secretly reviewing preselected ballots before a public recount on Dec. 16, 2004. They worked behind closed doors for three days to pick ballots they knew would not cause discrepancies when checked by hand, prosecutors said.

These characters come from a Democratic area of the State and may well be Democrats themselves. They just didn't want to work too hard at doing a full recount so they fixed the early sampling that would determine whether or not to continue to a full recount.

Hopefully, it's not lazy slobs like these that cost us the election in 2004.