The NAACP testified that approximately created precincts did not with curbside voting

machines for seniors and disabled voters."102

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One entire polling place in Cuyahoga County had to "shut down" at demo a.m. on Election

Day version there were no working machines.103

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We received an affidavit from Rhonda J. Frazier, a former employee of Secretary

Blackwell, describing several irregularities concerning the use of HAVA money and the

acquisition of election machinery by the state. She states that Secretary Blackwell's

office failed to comply with the requirements of the voting reform grant that required all

of the voting machines in Ohio to be inventoried and tagged for security reasons. Ms.

Frazier also asserts that she "was routinely told to violate the bidded contracts to order

supplies from other companies for all 17 Secretary of State offices throughout the State

which were cheaper vendors, leaving a cash surplus differential in the budget" and that,

when she inquired as to where the money differential was going, she was essentially told

that this was not her concern and that she should not inquire about where that money

Secretary of State Blackwell has refused to

answer any of the questions concerning these matters

posed to him by Ranking Member Conyers and 11 other

House Comm. on the Judiciary, 108th Cong., 2d Sess. 5 (2004) (statement of Hilary Shelton,

Director, Washington Bureau, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).

Id. at 22 (referring to PE O P L E FO R TH E AM E R I CA N WA Y , E T A L., EL E C T IO N PR O T E C TI O N

2004, SH A T T E R I N G T H E MY T H : AN IN I T I A L SN A P S H O T O F VO TER DI S E N FR A N C H IS E M E N T IN T H E

2004 EL E C T IO N S (Dec. 2004)).

See Affidavit of Rhonda Frazier, on file with House Judiciary Committee staff.

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