Man charged with making threats against Brunner


October 25, 2008 at 12:00a.m.

COLUMBUS (AP) — A man has been charged in Columbus with making a death threat against Ohio’s top elections official.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol says 51-year-old Dana McArtor of Columbus was charged Friday with intimidation in a threat phoned last week to the office of Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner.

Brunner spokesman Jeff Ortega said the phone call came Oct. 17 and the caller threatened to kill Brunner.

Her office said it has been inundated with threats amid a busy pre-election season of voter lawsuits and alleged registration irregularities. Brunner, a Democrat, was elected in 2006 on a platform critical of Republican Secretary of State Ken Blackwell’s election oversight.

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