With current press attention focused on Blackwell's stringent rules on registering voters for the 2006 election, now appears a rehash of the controversy over the 2004 election.

Since the publication of Robert Kennedy Jr.'s article -- "Was The 2004 Election Stolen?" -- in the recent edition of Rolling Stone Magazine, Blackwell continues to be a subject of interest in that controversy.

In a Columbus Dispatch commentary last Sunday, Joe Hallett says, "Echoing an editorial in the New York Times, Fisher, the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, called upon Blackwell to relinquish his Nov. 7 Election-oversight duties."  Hallett, however, does not support Kennedy's conclusions about the election being stolen and does not believe that Blackwell was "chief villain."