Ken Blackwell will determine whether Ted Strickland, his opponent in the Ohio gubernatorial race, will stay on the ballot.
Strickland maintains two residences, only one of which as his address on voting registration roles. The Republicans argue that this home is not Strickland's real home, because the other residence appears on income tax forms. A person with no valid voting registration cannot be governor.
Of course, such rules apply only to Democrats. If we do not accept the legal fiction that Dick Cheney's Wyoming home is his "real" home, then the Constitution forbids him from serving as Vice President. George Bush the elder listed a hotel room as his "home."
The matter is up to Blackwell -- no disinterested party -- to decide. And he has repeatedly demonstrated that he has no ethics.
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News item at linked reference is about a chalenge to Strickland's own vote in the election not his right to remain on the ballot. Both residences for Strickland are in Ohio. If Strickland loses, all this means is two less votes from him & his wife. However, the matter does bring up the arcane way we manage elections under the political office of "Secretary of State" which is subject to partisan bias--in Ohio of the most egregious kind.
I agree. It would be rather quaint for Senators to actually reside and pay taxes in the states that they claim to represent. Rick Santorum and his family live in a very wealthy suburb of Virginia. However, he claims to maintain a residence in a very blue-collar, racially mixed suburb of Pittsburgh. In fact, he owes the taxpayers of PA 100,000 for sending 5 of his children to a private cyber school without paying for it as a non-resident. This is a well documented fact, yet shockingly, Santorum refuses to acknowledge the obvious or reimburse the money.
http://santorumexposed.com/pages/issues/issues-tax.php
Kim in PA
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