[T]he Cincinnati Enquirer reported that officials in Warren County, Ohio, had “locked down” its administration building to prevent anybody from observing the vote count there.
Suspicious enough on the face of it, the decision got more dubious still when County Commissioners confirmed that they were acting on the advice of their Emergency Services Director, Frank Young. Mr. Young had explained that he had been advised by the federal government to implement the measures for the sake of Homeland Security.
Just to be clear on this. The Bush administration barred observers from monitoring the vote-counting process in Ohio, where Bush won in a number of counties against the forecasts of all voting history, registration data, and exit polls.
Um.