The Disptach Changes Its Mind...

...now that a Democrat is in charge of the Secretary of State's office.  Apparently they think we all have short memories...

Today's Editorial:   "The 2004 presidential election and the current one have been riven by partisan charges and lawsuits over election decisions handed down by the Ohio secretary of state. In these struggles, the biggest loser has been public faith in the impartiality of the state's top election official.  That's why Ohioans should consider revamping the administration of elections by putting that duty into the hands of a bipartisan board."

OCT. 30, 2005 Editorial:  "Issue 5 would strip the election-oversight duties from an elected official, the secretary of state, and give it to an unelected, nine-member Board of Election Supervisors. This measure is a needless overreaction to the overt politicking of the current secretary of state, J. Kenneth Blackwell. . . .  The state has had a solid election-oversight system and will continue to have one if this needless amendment is defeated."

As someone who supported Issue 5 (part of the Reform Ohio Now amendments) in 2005, it's cold comfort to have the Dispatch come around -- 3 years too late.