OHIO Cuyahoga Co. BOE Director ousted after criminal convictions

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1:30 pm EST February 6, 2007
CLEVELAND -- NewsChannel5 has confirmed that embattled elections chief in Cuyahoga County has resigned.

Executive director Michael Vu's ouster marks the end of a tense term that thrust Cuyahoga County and its voters in the national spotlight. Under Vu, the county weathered a botched primary election and convictions of two workers who mishandled the 2004 presidential recount.

Bob Bennett, chairman of the county Elections Board and head of the state Republican Party, said the board negotiated the departure with Vu. ....

Bennett would not say why the deal was being crafted or whose idea it was for Vu to leave.

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1. OHIO 2004: 6.15% Kerry-Bush vote-switch found in probability study

Discussion here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=466044&mesg_id=466044

Defining the vote outcome probabilities of wrong-precinct voting has revealed, in a sample of 166,953 votes (1/34th of the Ohio vote), the Kerry-Bush margin changes 6.15% when the population is sorted by probable outcomes of wrong-precinct voting.

The Kerry to Bush 6.15% vote-switch differential is seen when the large sample is sorted by probability a Kerry wrong-precinct vote counts for Bush. When the same large voter sample is sorted by the probability Kerry votes count for third-party candidates, Kerry votes are instead equal in both subsets.

Read the revised article with graphs of new findings:

The 2004 Ohio Presidential Election: Cuyahoga County Analysis
How Kerry Votes Were Switched to Bush Votes

http://jqjacobs.net/politics/ohio.html

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4. darn!!! WISH that whistleblower would have stepped forward!!!

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2. kick

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3. Pay-Hola of Pay-See-Ya = Fired-for-felony workers get severance pay. ??

It may take a while to put a tourniquet on the big red flow of payments to election workers in Ohio. What is behind this great river of cash anyway??

http://www.newarkadvocate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070207/NEWS01/702070318/1002/NEWS01

Maiden's separation pay is $27,096 and Dreamer's is $8,382.

Fired for felony convictions in conduct of official duties. I wish someone would convict me of a crime and fire me. I could use this kind of payoff.

And Blackwell doles out $80,000 to political cronies before departing:
Article by JIM PROVANCE - BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU

"COLUMBUS - On his way out the door, former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell handed 19 of his key employees more than $80,000 in bonuses, even as his replacement said she's $1 million short of what's necessary to meet her office's obligations through June 30...."
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070117/NEWS09/701170427

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And Republican Party Boss Robert Bennett said this about Vu's ousting:
By Ken Baka, Staff Writer � http://www.sunnews.com/news/2007/part1/0208/ACVU.htm

"... As for Vu, he could earn about $40,000 as a consultant, Bennett said..."

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��"... Board members spent about eight hours behind closed doors this week before chairman Robert T. Bennett announced the resignations. Bennett said he didn't want Vu to leave .... most vocal was member Edward Coaxum Jr., who said, "This is not about people, but about process."

"... Dillingham , a 16-year employee, was prepared for the talks with an attorney. ..."