Seneca County Board of Election reprisal action accelerates the dismantling of in person voting.

Who gave the go-ahead for the Ohio Seneca County Board of Elections to initiate reprisals & violate the 1st amendment rights of election workers participating in a ballot referendum to remove voting machines? Why is the current, and Secretary of State canidate Robert Sprague silent? Hear the whole story on the Tom Roten Show

Ohio law sets a few basic qualifications for election workers:

• Be a county resident.

• A registered voter.

• Have no felony convictions.

But in Seneca County, officials added another to its polling location managers.

DON'T OPPOSE VOTING MACHINES!

At it's August 26 meeting, the four member board of elections approved a motion "that any active member publicly or actively working against the use of voting machines [is] ineligible to serve as a polling location manager."

Statement by Marcell Strbich candidate for Ohio Secretary of State in the above video are summarized below. 

We participate in the election process because it garners a level of transparency and oversite and gives us the assurance that our elections are working for us. Individuals in Seneca and Monroe Counties in Ohio were supporting a referendum on restoring Pre-printed paper ballots and allow for consideration of a hand count process so more individuals could involved in their election process..

The problem for them was that the Secretary of State and the County Prosecutor opposed the ballot referendum. They used a legal case to deny them the right to move forward with the referendum.

Here’s the rub; the people who participated in Seneca’s process are now being punished, as it is believed that their viewpoint is wrong. Their freedom of speech to express their belief is being treated as a crime just because they said they don’t agree that the voting machine is the method that must be used.

The Seneca County Board of Elections is retaliating against poll workers who are involved in supporting the referendum by saying they should be denied working as Voting Location Managers (VLMs), all because of their outspoken position on voting machines. Precincts are already low on poll workers, so flexing their tyrannical muscles will only create a greater void of workers which could lead to an increase in remote voting, a system that just may be what the lobbyists representing the voting machine vendors are hoping for. It makes one wonder what Frank LaRose, the current Secretary of State, has to gain from this.

This is egregious, exactly what I faced in the military under the Biden administration. If you said something against the COVID shot or DEI, you would face punishment. We don’t need this authoritarian approach, regardless of which administration this is under. This needs to end now.

We will continue to watch this unfold and observe who is behind this, knowing that in 2026 Ohio will have a new Secretary of State, and hopefully one that will respect the poll workers and the voters, by eliminating the machines.

We won’t give up until we get to the bottom of this, and will expose what’s actually happening behind the scenes with all the influence peddlers who are pushing the continued use of the machines.

Thank you, vote for Marcell Strbich for Ohio Secretary of State and visit my website at StrbichForOhio.com

Why electronic voting equipment needs to be replaced by pre-printed hand marked paper ballots

Marcell Strbich In an interview with Brian Thomas on July 22, 2025 detailed why electronic voting equipment needs to be replaced with pre-printed hand marked paper ballots. Things need to change in Ohio and Marcell Stribch is the man to make those changes. Marcell's interview is summarized below.

Just prior to our November 2024 elections 66% of Americans were questioning if they trust in the honesty of elections. That is a question that we have to ask ourselves. Fundamentally, what is wrong with our elections? I deeply studied this issue over the last two years and decided to take action regarding this issue.

I did a number of call to actions, I went and worked with the legislature as a citizen advocate which is very unusual as a volunteer, and put forward advanced verified abilities for voters, I looked at the citizenship issue with verification, or lack there of, and I even looked at the cyber security which is a specialty in the background in which I had been working at the Pentagon. I said, "This is a system that has serious issues."

Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, you should be asking yourself why we should trust the electronic voting systems given the global hacks with Microsoft and their servers recently. Clearly these systems are broken and we can not continue to keep purchasing and acquiring, spending more money on insecure systems.

I think we need to revamp and re-look at all the variables and I have some concrete solutions. I am very much an issues based candidate and I have an understanding of the systems like no-one else in this race right now.

For the last 20 years we have computerized this entire infrastructure of elections and failed to up-front create independent security assessment review for those very systems. There is no third party verification, the vendor drives the entire process and the Secretary of state validates it. That by definition is self auditing and is not valid.

 In the last six years in Ohio, we went from having an 18 million dollar budget to a 65 million dollar budget for the Secretary of States office. That budget has been growing because we have had to add these cyber security cost which now are no longer being funded by the federal government. Now our county commissioners need to pick up that cost.

This whole system is being re-looked at and when you look at the current administration, President Trump is calling for decertifying some of these systems because rightfully so, the technology is from the early 2000s, and in the early 2000s there were not even iPhones.

These systems do not have the ability to meet what we call zero day threats  that are present. To be honest, all these systems, their design, their components, their software developers are from over-seas. So why can't we build a supply chain in the United States if this is truly critical infrastructure and if we are truly going to protect these, and give people assuredness and confidence, which they deserve?

This is why I am advocating to go back to pre-printed hand marked paper ballots. They are un-hackable, they are the most transparent, they cost about a 10th of the expense, and Ohio is already doing it in some counties. I think we need to be a leading state and go back to pre-printed hand marked paper ballots.

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