Congressman Conyers Asks Justice Department to Appoint Special Counsel to Investigate Ohio

January 14, 2005
Congressman Conyers Asks Justice Department to Appoint Special Counsel to Investigate Ohio

Congressman Conyers Has Asked the Justice Department to Appoint a
Special Counsel to Investigate Possible Criminal Conduct in Connection with
the Ohio 2004 Election by J. Kenneth Blackwell.

In this detailed letter, Conyers stated that through the House
Judiciary Democrats' investigation, they had learned of "numerous instances of
voter intimidation and misinformation,improper purging, caging of
minority voters, misuse of Help America Vote Act (HAVA) funds, voting
machine tampering, perjury, and most recently, potential misuse of the
federal seal in a campaign solicitation by Ohio Secretary of State Blackwell.
Since this and other apparent violations by the Secretary of State
presents such an obvious conflict for your office, we would ask that you
appoint a special counsel to investigate this matter."

Full text of the letter:

http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/dojelectionspconltr11405.pdf