[SmithL]

They did find a few extra votes for Kerry, but not enough.

[SmithL]

Jacqueline Maiden, center, stands with Rosie Grier, left, and Kathleen Dreamer, during court proceedings, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2007, in Cleveland. Maiden, who was the elections board's third-highest ranking employee, faces six counts of misconduct over how ballots were reviewed in Cuyahoga County in the 2004 presidential election. Grier, manager of the board's ballot department, and Kathleen Dreamer, an assistant manager, face the same charges. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

[HardStarboard]

OK Ohioians....are these girls Democrats or do they just look that way. And were they convicted of trying to rig the Demo vote up, or fake a rig of Repub. vote up to try to get the entire Ohio vote thrown into question.

Inquiring minds would like to know! Well, OK - curious minds!

[Young Werther]

Not to worry. Hillary 'll pardon them!

[duckbutt]

my guess if this was Cuyahoga County, home of Cleveland, these were Dimbulbs...not repubbies....

[Homer1]

It sounds like they tried to cover something up to me...

[skinkinthegrass]

They did find a few extra votes for Kerry, but not enough.

*smirk..shaking head*

Hmmmm...and since there's NO PARTY AFFILIATION, I bet they're DemocRATS.

*Looking* ....YUP! :/

[edsheppa]

I don't get it. There was evidently a recount so what is this "more thorough review" and did they succeed in preventing it? What was the nature of the pre-selection?

[lowbridge]

bump

[weegee]

Regardless of their party affiliation, I believe the courts should use the death penalty in cases of conspiracy to commit vote fraud. It goes against everything this nation was founded upon and may be a deterrent. Certainly would keep people from being repeat offenders.

[ModelBreaker]

Just a guess here. The first few paragraphs of the article did not mention political party. So I'm guessing they were D's.

[kcvl]

Cleveland grandmother Jacqueline Maiden, 59, is married to a preacher at a Baptist church and has never before been in trouble with the law, her attorney says.


Maiden has been an election board employee for more than 20 years and is married to the Rev. Albert Maiden, pastor of New Zion Mission Baptist Church of Cleveland, Rotatori said.


The original judge in the recount case, former Common Pleas Judge Judith Kilbane Koch, discussed the botched primary during a hearing held June 27 last year in her courtroom.


The affidavit said Koch griped in court that the Democratic Party had mistreated her by failing to endorse her in a May 2006 judicial election.