At the time, he filed a lawsuit against Blackwell and his office.

“This was my privacy, and it was hindered,” Estep said Saturday from his home in Mount Orab, Ohio, about 40 miles east of Cincinnati. It remained on the site for several weeks. In 2006, Estep, a trucker who hauls automobiles around the country, was among those whose personal information landed on the secretary of state’s website. To one Ohio resident, Darrell Estep, the most troubling part from Blackwell’s time as secretary of state was the handling of Social Security numbers. A federal appeals court ultimately upheld Blackwell’s directive, though critics called it another attempt to suppress voting. That same year, Blackwell ordered clerks to throw out provisional ballots if a person voted in the wrong precinct.

Under the intense criticism, Blackwell pulled back his order. In 2004, two years before the incidents with the Social Security numbers, Blackwell ordered that county clerks not accept voter registrations turned in on anything less than 80-pound stock paper - the thickness of a postcard.Ĭounty clerks called the requirement unnecessary, and voting rights advocates alleged he was attempting to suppress the vote in a key swing state during a presidential election year. For years, Blackwell has voiced concerns about voter fraud, while some have alleged he worked to suppress the vote in Ohio. Blackwell’s appointment to the committee - which is scheduled to hold its first meeting July 19 in Washington - has now drawn increased scrutiny to his tenure as secretary of state.

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